Professor Jan Grabowski

in conversation with Karen Pakula (6th May 2021).

HISTORY ON TRIAL – RESHAPING HOLOCAUST RESEARCH IN POLAND

Professor Jan Grabowski is an internationally acclaimed historian specialising in Polish-Jewish relations
in German-occupied Poland and in the Holocaust in Poland.
In 2003, he co-founded the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research in Warsaw.

On 21st February 2021, a Polish court in Warsaw the Universityof Ottawa professor, together with his co-editor Barbara Engelking,
guilty of “defaming the Polish nation”, based upon a book published in 2017. That case is now being appealed.


The ASPJ thanks all those whose hard work and effort made this, COVID-enforced, online event so successful.

We sincerely thank Professor Grabowski for agreeing to share his insights into the current state of Holocaust research in Poland.