Polish ruling on Holocaust libel case causes profound concern among Jewish groups ejpress.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ejpress.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘’Yad Vashem acknowledges the court’s verdict, but remains deeply disturbed by its implications. Any attempt to limit academic and public discourse through political or legal pressure is unacceptable and constitutes a substantive blow to academic freedom,’’ said a statement issued by the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
Yad Vashem has expressed ‘’profound concern’’ regarding the recent verdict rendered by a Polish court in a libel case against two Holocaust researchers, Professors Engelking and Grabowski.
Last week, the court ordered professors Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, the editors of “Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland,” to issue a retraction of their work and apologize to Edward Malinowski, the former mayor of Malinowo, Poland.
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This is a fairly unprecedented verdict which strikes at the heart of what I as a historian do, Grabowski said. This verdict, if upheld on our appeal, which will follow, means an end to independent research of the history of the Holocaust and, I would argue, of many other parts of Polish history which run contrary to the official myths and legends espoused by the Polish state today.
Nine researchers, including Grabowski, spent six years writing a 1,700-page book called Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland, released in Polish in mid-2018. The tome contradicts the official line that Poles were exclusively victims of wartime atrocities.
Prominent Canadian scholar slams Poland s efforts to stifle Holocaust research princegeorgecitizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from princegeorgecitizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.