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Jan Grabowski
jgrabows@uottawa.ca Author Biographyprofessor of history at the University of Ottawa, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His publications include Judenjagd. Polowanie na Żydów 1942–1945. Studium dziejów pewnego powiatu (2011); 2013 saw the publication of the extended English edition of this book – Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland, while its Hebrew translation was published by Yad Vashem in 2016; editor of many collective volumes, for instance, Klucze i kasa. O mieniu żydowskim w Polsce pod okupacją niemiecką i we wczesnych latach powojennych 1939–1950 (2014, together with Dariusz Libionka) as well as critical editions of sources, for instance, Szraga Fajwel Bielawski, Ostatni Żyd z Węgrowa. Wspomnienia ocalałego z Zagłady w Polsce (2015), and „Szczęście posiadać dom pod ziemią”. Losy kobiet ocalałych z Zagłady w okolicach Dąbrowy Tarnowskiej (2016).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-9379
University of Ottawa
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redakcja@holocaustresearch.plPolish Center for Holocaust Research
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, 2008, Pages: 7-9
Submission Date: 2020-09-25Publication Date: 2008-12-01
Abstract
Writing about the history of the Holocaust in Poland, and in Polish, carries with it a very peculiar set of duties, obligations and challenges. There are few issues in Polish history that reverberate through the nation with such force and whose ongoing discussion is able to have an immediate and profound impact on the national self-perception. The recent discussions surrounding the publication of Jan T. Gross’s books are convincing proof of that. On the other hand, the issues related to the destruction of the Polish Jewry have been among the most forgotten, falsified and manipulated events of the recent past. As discussed in recent decades, the Holocaust became an addition to, rather than an essential and defining part of, Polish historical writing. And these were the reasons why the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research was created in the first place. The members of the Centre set out to return the history of the Holocaust to the centre of the historical focus while, at the same time, trying to make it an integral and inalienable part of mainstream Polish history.
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