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Whitewash: Poland and the Jews
Author(s): Grabowski, Jan
Date: 2024
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Nationalism, National Identity, Politics, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration
Abstract: This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the failure of modern Poland to reckon with the nation's role in the Holocaust. In this ground-breaking essay, Jan Grabowski, a world-renowned Holocaust historian, examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. He recounts his own experience as the victim of smears and a notorious lawsuit for questioning the complicity of Poles in the destruction of the country's Jews, and examines the far-reaching consequences of Poland's historical distortions, which have been repeated and replicated worldwide to challenge the truth of the Holocaust.