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Millions of Americans still face housing insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 15 percent behind on rent payments at the end of June. New York City not only houses the majority of the State’s renters but also had relatively high rates of rent-burdened tenants to the pandemic.
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...
‘’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 Grabo...
"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 c...
Yad Vashem 'deeply disturbed' by Polish court verdict February 26, 2021 (JNS) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said on Thursday that it was “deeply disturbed” by the implications of a Polish court’s recent ruling in a libel case involving the alleged wartime actions of Edward Malinowski, the former mayor of Malinowo, Poland. On Tuesday, 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 Malinowski’...