The Jewish Quarterly: White Wash: Poland and the Jews: Issue 257

The Jewish Quarterly: White Wash: Poland and the Jews: Issue 257

GRABOWSKI, Jan

About this book

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.