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The Globe and Mail Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska WARSAW, Poland Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Associated Press A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work, citing alleged inaccuracies that suggested the Polish man helped kill Jews during the...

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...

by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted Feb 9, 2021 4:10 pm ADT Last Updated Feb 9, 2021 at 4:25 pm ADT TORONTO — A Polish court order that an eminent Canadian historian and his co-editor apologize for suggesting a man helped kill Jews during the Second World World has angered Jewish human rights activists in Canada and abroad. They say the ruling against Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking is part of an ongoing effort to obscure Polish complicity in the genocide of Jews during the Holocaust. Michael Levitt, head of Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, ...

Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski were sued by the 81-year-old niece of a wartime village elder who claimed a book they co-edited defames her deceased uncle's memory by suggesting he had a role in the slaughter of Jews

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...