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We mourn Nechama Tec
We mourn with sadness Prof. Nechama Tec, who was with the Center for many years. A member of the Scientific Council of the annual "Holocaust Studies and Materials". Statement against attack on Prof. Jan Grabowski's lecture
We strongly condemn the direct attack by MP Grzegorz Braun and the rupture of Prof. Jan Grabowski's lecture at the German Historical Institute
Tel Aviv University Honorary Doctorate for Barbara Engelking
On May 18, at 7:30 pm (polish time), Prof. Barbara Engelking will receive an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University awarded to her in 2021. Online streaming
EHRI seminar in Lodz - »Microhistories of the Holocaust«
On September 18-22, 2023, Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Lodz, invites you to the seminar "Microhistories of the Holocaust - methodology, sources, challenges, impact" organized within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure.
Statement against attacks on Prof. Barbara Engelking
On April 19, 2023, Prof. Barbara Engelking gave an interview to Monika Olejnik on the program "Kropka nad i". Its topic was the fate of Jewish civilians during the ghetto uprising and afterwards. Unfortunately, once again we face an instrumental attack aimed at Prof. Engelking, as well as scientific research. Below is a statement from members of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of IFiS PAN
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Topics of Interest
TOPICS OF INTEREST
In this section one can find the international echos of and reactions to the debates and issues raised by the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research
News:
- Creation of the Polish National Foundation [Polska Fundacja Narodowa]
The media in Poland report the creation of the Polish National Foundation [Polska Fundacja Narodowa], an organization funded by state-controlled enterprises, with an annual budget of 100 million zlotys (25 million $).
The Foundation's mandate is to promote a positive image of Poland abroad. According to Jackiewicz, the former Secretary of Treasury: "Poland is a country which is being hurt by false, unnecessary and stereotypical information" which is spread abroad by "various media, organizations and respected people around the world". Cezary Jurkiewicz, the chief of the PNF, is one of the leaders of the right-wing "Gazeta Polska" clubs and an activist of the ruling Peace and Justice party. His deputy, Maciej Swirski is the founder of the Redoubt of Good Name - Polish Anti-Defamation League. Swirski and his Redoubt acquired certain notoriety last year, protesting the Oscar-winning film "Ida", alleging that it: "can make people falsely believe that the Poles murdered European Jews". Swirski also requested that president Duda of Poland strip Jan T. Gross of his Order of Merit of the Polish Republic. The leader of the Polish National Foundation described professor Jan T. Gross of Princeton as a: "particularly dangerous slanderer [who] under the guise of academic pursuits leads a campaign of slanders and insults against Poland". More recently, Swirski declared that the European Commission, instead of worrying about the state of democracy in Poland, should "study the breach of treaties by the Germans who let into Europe an unknown number of terrorists".
For more info (in Polish), see: http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,21216898,kto-wyda-100-mln-zl-na-promocje-polski-w-swiecie-teolog-menedzer.html
- Joan Sangster writes to the Polish Prime Minister to voice the CHA's opposition to a new law that would introduce harsh punishment to historians or members of the public referring to “Polish death camps” or “Polish concentration camps.”
- The Ina Levine Annual Lecture at the United Staets Holocaust Memmorial Museum in Washington, "THE POLISH POLICE COLLABORATION IN THE HOLOCAUST"
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OPINIONS AND COMMENTS:
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BOOK REVIEWS
Publications of our members as reviewed abroad and a choice of reviews penned by the members of the Centre

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Prof. Jan Grabowski about the “Margins of the Holocaust”
Prof Jacek Leociak - Europe and the Holocaust: Shifts in Public Debates in Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom from UCL European Institute.
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