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Follow Feb. 12, 2021 On November 5, 1942, the Germans destroyed the Drohyczin Jewish ghetto in the Bialystok region of Poland. About 1,500 of its residents were loaded onto trains and sent to the Treblinka death camp. The night before the ghetto’s destruction, Estera Siemiatycka fled with her toddler son, as well as with her sister and her sister’s daughters. Initially, they found refuge with a Polish acquaintance and then fled into the forest. According to Siemiatycka’s testimony, one day when she set out to find food, Polish farmers raided their hiding place, arrested Siemiatycka’s ...

Follow Feb. 8, 2021 Readers who have been following the stories written by Haaretz correspondent Ofer Aderet on the research of historian Jan Grabowski (Haaretz, Jan. 18, Jan. 27 and Jan. 31, 2021) could reach the conclusion that Poland is now conducting a trial that resembles the famous Dreyfus trial that took place in France at the end of the 19th century. Prof. Grabowski, a Polish historian who lives in Canada today and teaches at Ottawa University, and whose Jewish father fought in the Warsaw Revolt in 1944, has published ground-breaking research on the relations between Polish society a...

Follow Feb. 4, 2021 The Polish ambassador to Israel has rejected criticism of the libel trial underway in his country against two Holocaust historians, defending what he called the plaintiff’s “right to defend the memory of her close relative," in a letter to the Israeli head of a group that represents survivors. Ambassador Marek Magierowski wrote in the letter posted on his Twitter feed on Wednesday that “granting blanket immunity to historians is a risky concept, to say the least.” The letter was addressed to Colette Avital, a former Israeli diplomat and lawmaker currently chairwom...

Follow Jan. 31, 2021 The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum expressed support for two Polish historians who are facing a civil libel trial in Warsaw for their publication of historical research on Polish crimes against Jews during the Holocaust, saying the proceedings against them is an "assault" on Holocaust research. The case centers around the book “Dalej jest noc” ("Night without End,"), which was published in Poland in 2018 and was jointly edited by Prof. Barbara Engelking and Prof. Jan Grabowski. It includes the testimony of Estera Drogicka, a woman who survived the Holocaust ...

A history book referring to the role of a Polish mayor – in saving or murdering Jews – has triggered a libel suit that is testing freedom of speech and being closely watched in the academic world