SCANDAL! Anti-Polish attack during a pseudoscience conference in Paris – as revealed by a participant and video. Impressions from a participant at the conference “New Polish School of Shoah History” in Paris on February 21-22, 2019. Video recorded during scandalous treatment of Poles protesting against slanders directed against Poland and Poles by the panelists after…
We publish an English translation of the open letter sent to the organizers of the conference “New Polish School of Holocaust History.” The conference begins tomorrow in Paris and will host numerous controversial scholars like Jan Gross or Jan Grabowski, known for their one-sided, sensational and anti-Polish narrative. The Rendez-Vous of the Holocaust researchers is…
Mr. Philip GriffinChief Executive OfficerNBC Universal 30 Rockefeller PlazaNew York, NY 10112 February 15, 2019 Dear Mr. Griffin, As president of Polish America’s oldest and largest issue advocacy organization, the Polish American Congress, I was shocked and dismayed by the falsehoods broadcast from Warsaw, Poland on February 13, 2019 by Ms. Andrea Mitchell. She should be ashamed of…
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Szymon Datner was a prominent Polish historian of Jewish descent, best known for his research on German war crimes committed against Jews, particularly those escaping from the ghettos in occupied Poland. In 1969–70 he presided over the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and was one of the historians at the Polish Commission to Investigate German Crimes,…
Dear Editors, Somewhat ironically your correspondent’s one-sided and blinkered perspective is a form of revisionism masquerading as insight (Foreign Policy, February 12, 2019, by Mateusz Mazzini, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology). The suggestion in the headline is also absurd: “Poland’s Historical Revisionism Is Pushing It Into Moscow’s Arms.” Come again? “Following…
Dear Haaretz, Your article “Auschwitz Is Rewriting Holocaust History, One Tweet at a Time” shows your standards are getting worse and no fact checking is being undertaken. Clearly your (ignorant) correspondent is not aware of the factual history or the need for accuracy. This is what Szymon Datner actually wrote: “I estimated the number of surviving Jews…
In an offensive story falsely accusing the Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial and Museum of rewriting history, the Israeli daily Haaretz misquoted the historical data of a renowned Polish historian Szymon Datner: “However, Polish-Jewish historian Szymon Datner estimated Polish people directly caused the murder of 200,000 Jews during the Holocaust by handing them over to Nazis, informing authorities where they were…