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Image taken at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Credit: Snappy Goat) Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court. This was also the first time that the law, which forbids blaming the Polish nation for the crimes of the Holocaust, was used against academics—two Polish Holocaust historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking. Grabowski and Engelking are co-editors of Dale...

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Holocaust museum says decision ‘a real threat to academic and press freedom’ after researchers were censured for harming honor of man they said helped kill Jews in WWII

Israeli embassy hits out at ruling Law and Justice party's appointment of far-right figure Tomasz Greniuch to ideological watchdog

Polish court convicts leading Holocaust historians On Tuesday, a Polish court found Professors Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski, two of the most renowned historians of the Holocaust in Poland, guilty of defamation and spreading “inaccurate information.” The two historians had been sued by the niece of Edward Malinowski, the mayor of a Polish town during World War II, for a passage that appears in their 1,700 page Night W ithout End about the genocide of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. In the 2018 volume, testimonies are quoted which suggest that Malinowski was implicated in the local ma...