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Court rules Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski disseminated false information and harmed the honor of a man they said helped kill Jews in WWII; his niece brought the suit
By Alan Charlish and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A Warsaw court ruled on Tuesday that two historians tarnished the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust and must apologise, in a case some academics warn could deter impartial research into Poles' actions during World War Two. More than seven decades on, the conflict remains a live political issue in Poland, where the ruling nationalists say studies showing complicity by some Poles in the killing of Jews by Nazi Germany are an attempt to dishonour a country that suffered immensely in the conflict. The c...
Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski must apologise to Filomena Leszczynska for ‘providing inaccurate information’ about her late uncle.
(Recasts with ruling) By Alan Charlish and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A Warsaw court ruled on Tuesday that two historians tarni...
The Sudanese government and a major rebel group from its southern Nuba Mountains on Sunday signed a document which paves... Malinowski’s niece, 81-year-old Filomena Leszczynska, accused the scholars of fabricating her uncle’s crimes, insisting that he was a hero who had saved Jews. The court’s decision means that Engelking and Grabowski are obliged to provide Leszczynska with a written apology for having provided “inaccurate information” about her uncle and for “violating his honor.” They are expected to pursue an appeal. Jewish leaders slammed Tuesday’s ruling as another atte...