Jan Grabowski (historian)

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Jan Grabowski

Jan Grabowski (born June 24, 1962 in Warsaw ) is a Polish historian who teaches in Canada .

Life

Jan Grabowski is the son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and a Roman Catholic mother. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and received a master's degree there in 1986 . He received his PhD from the University of Montreal in 1994 . Grabowski has since taught at the University of Ottawa , where he received a professorship. He also works at the Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów (Center for Holocaust Research ) of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Grabowski researches the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland . His research shows that during the German occupation parts of the Polish population were more involved in the persecution of Polish Jews than was perceived by Polish historical policy in post-war Poland. In 2014 he received an award from Yad Vashem .

In 2016 he asked about the opening of the “Muzeum Polaków Ratujących Żydów podczas II wojny światowej im. Rodziny Ulmów w Markowej “( Museum in Markowa for the Poles who saved Jews during World War II ). The question of what role the local policeman Włodzimierz Leś of the Polish Police in the Generalgouvernement played in the denunciation had been left out of the historical research . After all, he was later shot by the Polish resistance because of his collaboration.

Grabowski was personally threatened in 2017 for his publications and also attacked in an open letter to the University of Ottawa signed by over a hundred Polish academics. The letter campaign came from the national Polish organization “Reduta Dobrego Imienia - Polska Liga Przeciw Zniesławieniom” ( Protection of the Good Name - Polish League Against Defamation ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Klucze i Kasa. Losy mienia żydowskiego w okupowanej Polsce, 1939–1945 . Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Warszawa, Warsaw 2014. ISBN 978-83-63444-35-8 .
  • Jew hunt. Polowanie na Żydów, 1942–1945. Studied Dziejów Pewnego Powiatu . Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów, 2011. ISBN 978-83-932202-0-5 .
    • Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland . Indiana University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-253-01074-2 .
    • ציד היהודים; בגידה ורצח בפולין בימי הכיבוש הגרמני. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2016
  • Zarys Krajobrazu. Wieś polska wobec Zagłady, 1942–1945 . Warsaw. 2011, ISBN 978-83-932202-4-3 .
  • with Barbara Engelking: Żydowskich przestępców należy karać śmiercią! "Przestępczość" Żydów w okupowanej Warszawie 1939–1942 . IFiS PAN, Warsaw 2010, ISBN 978-83-926831-7-9 .
  • The anti-Jewish policy in the Zichenau district . In: Jochen Böhler , Jacek Mlynarczyk (ed.): The murder of Jews in the incorporated Polish areas 1939–1945 . Fiber, Osnabrück 2010, pp. 99–117 (translation from Polish, 2008)
  • Rescue for Money: Paid Helpers in Poland, 1939–1945 . Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2008, ISBN 978-965-308-325-7 .
  • "Yes tego Żyda znam!" Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie 1939–1943 . Warsaw 2004
    • 'Je le connais, c'est un Juif!' Varsovie 1939-1943. Le chantage contre les juifs . éditions Calmann-Lévy, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7021-3887-8 .
  • Historia Canada . Prószyński i Spółka, Warsaw 2001, ISBN 978-83-7255-044-6 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ofer Aderet: 'Orgy of Murder': The Poles Who 'Hunted' Jews and Turned Them Over to the Nazis , in: Haaretz , February 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Joseph Croitoru: Was the heroic Ulma family typical? , in: FAZ , April 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press : U of O Holocaust scholar says he's a target of Polish 'hate' campaign Jan Grabowski says Poles were more complicit in Nazi atrocities than most think , Interview, at: CBC / Radio-Canada , June 20 2017
  4. ^ Joseph Croitoru: Image protection by court order . In: FAZ , July 1, 2017, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Grabowski, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw