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Jan Grabowski (born 1962) is a Polish-Canadian professor of history at the
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, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in
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during
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and the
Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust. ...
."Jan Grabowski"
University of Ottawa.
Co-founder in 2003 of the
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, in Warsaw, Poland, Grabowski is best known for his book '' Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland'' (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.


Early life and education

Grabowski was born in Warsaw to a
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mother and
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father.Snyder, Donald (12 January 2015)
"The Summer Polish Jews Were Hunted"
(interview with Jan Grabowski). ''The Forward''.
His father, , a Holocaust survivor and chemistry professor from
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, fought in the 1944
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. While at the
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, Grabowski was active in the
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between 1981 and 1985, where he helped to run an underground printing press for the
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movement. He received his M.A. in 1986, and in 1988 he emigrated to Canada. Travel restrictions had been eased by Poland's communist government. If he had known the regime would fall a year later, he would have stayed, he told an interviewer: "When I left in 1988 I thought there was no future for any young person in Poland. It felt like you were looking at the world through a thick wall of glass. It was sort of an un-reality ... the rules were oblique, strange, inhuman even. Then after one year the system seemed to collapse like a house of cards." He received his Ph.D. from the
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in 1994 for a thesis entitled ''The Common Ground. Settled Natives and French in Montréal 1667–1760''.


Academic appointments

Grabowski became a faculty member at the
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in 1993. In 2016–17 he was an Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he conducted research into the Polish Blue Police for a project entitled "Polish 'Blue' Police, Bystanders, and the Holocaust in Occupied Poland, 1939–1945". He received a grant for the project (2016–2020) from the Canadian
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.


Research


''Hunt for the Jews''

Grabowski is best known for his book ''Hunt for the Jews'', first published in Poland in 2011 as ''Judenjagd: Polowanie na Żydów 1942–1945''. In 2013 a revised and updated edition was published by
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as '' Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland'', and in 2016 a revised and expanded edition was published in Hebrew by
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. Awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in 2014,"Professor Jan Grabowski wins the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize"
Yad Vashem, 4 December 2014.
the book describes the ''
Judenjagd Judenjagd (German: “Hunt for Jews”) were German-conducted searches, beginning in 1942, for Jews who were in hiding in German-occupied Poland. The term was introduced by Christopher R. Browning. Targeted in the searches were Jews concealed a ...
'' (German: "Jew hunt") from 1942 onwards, focusing on Dąbrowa Tarnowska County, a rural area in southeastern Poland.Tzur, Nissan (18 October 2013)
"Holocaust writer Grabowski faces Polish fury"
''Jewish Chronicle''.
The ''Judenjagd'' was the German search for Jews who had escaped from the liquidated ghettos in Poland and were trying to hide among the non-Jewish population. Grabowski relied on Polish court records from the 1940s, post-war testimony collected by the
Central Committee of Polish Jews The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, ( pl, Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, yi, צענטראלער קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן, trans ...
, and records gathered in Germany during investigations in the 1960s. In a 2015 interview, he described the mechanics of the "hunt": According to Grabowski, most Jews in hiding were given up by local people to the Polish Blue Police or directly to the Germans. He said that Poles were "directly or indirectly" responsible for most of the deaths of over 200,000 Jews, not counting victims of the police; he explained that by "most", it could be 60 percent or as high as 90 percent. The book sparked a heated public debate in Poland.


''The Polish Police''

Grabowski's book ''The Polish Police: Collaboration in the Holocaust'' (2017), published by the
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, is based on his 2016 Ina Levine Annual Lecture on the Blue Police.


''Dalej jest noc''

In 2018 Grabowski and
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co-edited a two-volume study, ''Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski'' (Night without End: The Fates of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland). Published by the
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, the study focused on nine counties in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust, giving a detailed account of the fate of the area's Jews and of the question of Polish collaboration with the German occupiers. Grabowski contributed a chapter on
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. He told a newspaper that the work "talks about Polish virtue just as much. It paints a truthful picture." Mark Weitzman, director of government affairs for the
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, said it was "meticulously researched and sourced". Polish historian Jacek Chrobaczyński commended its authors for deconstructing political myths that persist in Polish history, journalism, church, and politics. However, scholars associated with Poland's
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alleged that the study used unreliable sources, selectively treated witness statements, presented rumor as fact, and underestimated the draconian nature of the German occupation. The
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, a group whose stated aim is to protect "Poland's good name", funded a civil case against Grabowski and Engelking in Poland, brought by the 81-year-old niece of a Polish villager who was accused in the book by witness testimony of having betrayed Jews to the Germans. In February 2021, a Warsaw court ruled that Grabowski and Engelking must apologize for their claims about the villager, but it did not order them to pay compensation. In response to the court ruling, the
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,
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, and the
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released statements expressing their concerns about the ruling's effects on
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and
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. The POLIN Museum stated that the suit had been "an attempt to frighten scholars away from publishing the results of their research out of fear of a lawsuit and the ensuing costly litigation." In August 2021, an appeals court overturned that ruling and dismissed the claims against the historians.


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In 2016, Grabowski published a paper criticizing what he called "the history policy of the Polish state", and arguing that "the state-sponsored version of history seeks to undo the findings of the last few decades and to forcibly introduce a sanitized, feel-good narrative". He has deplored plans for a monument to rescuers of Jews, to be located at Grzybowski Square, which was part of the wartime
Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...
; he sees it as an attempt to inflate the role of
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, whom he describes as a "desperate, hunted, tiny minority", the exception to the rule. The ghetto site should be dedicated, he argues, to Jewish suffering, not to Polish courage. Poland's embassy in Ottawa criticized Grabowski in 2016 for "groundless opinions and accusations" after he wrote an article for ''
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'' about Poland's controversial amendment to its
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.Grabowski, Jan (20 September 2016)
"The danger in Poland's frontal attack on its Holocaust history"
''Maclean's''
"The Polish Embassy in Ottawa responds to Jan Grabowski"
''Macleans'', 30 September 2016.
The amendment would have penalized, with imprisonment for up to three years, anyone defaming Poland by accusing it of complicity in the Holocaust,Zieve, Tamara (20 February 2018)
"Polish historian: Penalties for new Polish law resemble pre-war punishment"
''Jerusalem Post''.
with exceptions for "freedom of research, discussion of history, and artistic activity". In July 2017, Grabowski criticized the Ulma-Family Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews in World War II, which opened in
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in 2016. The garden will have plaques identifying the 1,500 towns in which the nearly 6,700 Poles lived who helped Jews and were recognized by
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as
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.Gieroń, Aneta (21 July 2017)
"Przy Muzeum Ulmów w Markowej powstaje Sad Pamięci"
''Biznesistyl''.
In Grabowski's view, the museum should provide more information about the Polish neighbours of the Ulma family and others who aided Jews. Grabowski co-wrote a ''
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'' opinion piece in December 2018 criticizing Israeli historian
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, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at the
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, for accepting the post of chief historian at the newly formed
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in Warsaw, Poland, and thus agreeing to be "the poster boy of olishstate authorities bent on turning back the clock and distorting the history of the Holocaust". In January 2019 Blatman responded in ''Haaretz'' that, while scholars at the Center for Holocaust Research had provided valuable insights into involvement in the Holocaust by parts of the Polish population, they did not give due weight to the terror and violence perpetrated by the Germans against Poles under German occupation.


Responses

Since publication of ''
Hunt for the Jews ''Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland'' is a 2013 book about the Holocaust in Poland by Jan Grabowski. The 2013 English edition followed a 2011 Polish-language edition (published as ''Judenjagd: polowanie na Żydów' ...
'', Grabowski has become subject to significant criticism in Poland, particularly from groups associated with Polish right-wing spectrum. Some of them attempted to have him fired from his academic position, and he has faced harassment and death threats, leading to increased security patrols in his department at the University of Ottawa.Thorne, Stephen J. (14 February 2018).
"The truth about Poland"
''Legion Magazine''.
On 7 June 2017 the
Polish League Against Defamation The Polish League Against Defamation ( pl, Fundacja Reduta Dobrego Imienia – Polska Liga Przeciw Zniesławieniom, lit=Good Name Redoubt – Polish League Against Defamation) is a right-wing nationalist non-governmental organization based in W ...
released a statement signed by 134 Polish scientists protesting Grabowski's "false and wrongful image of Poland and Polish people". The statement was sent to the University of Ottawa and to the publishers of his books and articles. It referred to German efforts to exterminate the Polish population, which made its occupation of Poland different from western Europe's occupation; to numerous examples of Poles' assistance to Jews; and to Poland's international protests at the plight of the Jewish population. It alleged that assistance by Poles was often hindered by Jews' low proficiency in Polish, by mistrust created by Jews' affiliation with Soviet authorities, and by
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' mistrust of non-Jews. In response, the
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issued a statement of its own a few days later, entitled "In defence of Jan Grabowski's good name". Signed by seven of its members, including
Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in P ...
,
Jacek Leociak Jacek Leociak (born 2 June 1957, in Warsaw) is a Polish literary scholar and historian as well as author. He is a professor of humanities and an employee of the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Cente ...
and
Dariusz Libionka Dariusz Marian Libionka (born on 25 June 1963 in Bielsko-Biała) is a Polish historian affiliated with the Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin. Libionka graduated from the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the School for Social Scie ...
, it called the criticism "as brutal as it is absurd". The Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the
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also expressed its full support for Grabowski, referring to his "highly respected scholarship". On 19 June 2017, some 180 Holocaust historians and other historians of modern European history signed an open letter in Grabowski's defence, addressed to
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, Chancellor of the University of Ottawa. Describing the campaign against Grabowski as "an attack on academic freedom and integrity", the letter said that " s scholarship holds to the highest standards of academic research and publication", and that the Polish League Against Defamation puts forth a "distorted and whitewashed version of the history of Poland during the Holocaust era". Signatories included
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,
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, Christopher Browning,
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. Gera, Vanessa (20 June 2017)
"International historians defend Ottawa scholar who studies Poland and Holocaust"
The Associated Press.
Grabowski filed a lawsuit in Warsaw against the Polish League Against Defamation in November 2018. The suit asked that each of the 134 Polish scientists who signed the 2017 statement buy a copy of ''Dalej jest noc'' and donate it to a Polish high school.Markusz, Katarzyna (18 November 2018)
"Holocaust researcher sues Polish group that accused him of falsifying history"
''Jewish Telegraphic Agency''.


Selected works

*(2001). ''Historia Kanady''. Warsaw: Prószyński i S-ka. *(2004). ''"Ja tego Żyda znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie 1939–1943''. Warsaw: Wydaw. *(2008). ''Rescue for Money: Paid Helpers in Poland, 1939-1945''. Jerusalem:
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. *(2010, with
Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in P ...
). ''Żydów łamiących prawo należy karać śmiercią! "Przestępczość" Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1942''. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów. *(2011, with Barbara Engelking). ''Zarys krajobrazu: wieś polska wobec zagłady Żydów 1942–1945''. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów. *(2011). ''Judenjagd: Polowanie na Zydow 1942–1945''. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów. **(2013). ''Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. **(2016). ציד היהודים; בגידה ורצח בפולין בימי הכיבוש הגרמני. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. *(2014, with
Dariusz Libionka Dariusz Marian Libionka (born on 25 June 1963 in Bielsko-Biała) is a Polish historian affiliated with the Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin. Libionka graduated from the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the School for Social Scie ...
, eds.). ''Klucze i kasa: o mieniu żydowskim w Polsce pod okupacją niemiecką i we wczesnych latach powojennych, 1939–1950''. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów. * (2017)
"The Polish police: Collaboration in the Holocaust"
Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Ina Levine annual lecture, 17 November 2016). * (2018, co-edited with
Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in P ...
),\. '' Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski'' (Night without End: The Fates of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland). Warsaw: ''Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów'' (
Polish Center for Holocaust Research The Polish Center for Holocaust Research ( pl, Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów) is an academic and research center at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. The center's director is historian Barbara Engelking. History The Polish C ...
), 2 volumes (1,640 pp.). * (2020). ''Na posterunku. Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów'' (On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews). Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec. *(2021). ''Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle'' (Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background), Wydawnictwa Austeria.


See also

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Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946 Anti-Jewish violence in Poland from 1944 to 1946 preceded and followed the end of World War II in Europe and influenced the postwar history of the Jews as well as Polish-Jewish relations. It occurred amid a period of violence and anarchy across ...
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Collaboration in German-occupied Poland Throughout World War II, Poland was a member of the Allied coalition that fought Nazi Germany. During the German occupation of Poland, some citizens of all its major ethnic groups collaborated with the Germans. Estimates of the number of collab ...
*'' Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz'' (2006) *
History of the Jews in Poland The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...
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Polish Righteous among the Nations The citizens of Poland have the world's highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem of Jerusalem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There a ...
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Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust Polish Jews were the primary victims of the German-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, many Poles rescued Jews from the Holocaust, in the process risking their lives – and the lives of their families. Po ...
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Kielce pogrom The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of violence toward the Jewish community centre's gathering of refugees in the city of Kielce, Poland on 4 July 1946 by Polish soldiers, police officers, and civiliansWąsosz pogrom (5 July 1941) *
Jedwabne pogrom The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. At least 340 men, women and children were murdered, some 300 of whom ...
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Żegota Żegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee"Yad Vashem Shoa Resource CenterZegota/ref>) was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland ( pl, Rada Pomocy Żydom przy Delegaturze Rządu RP na Kraj), an un ...


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University of Ottawa.
Jan Grabowski
Polish Center for Holocaust Research. * Grabowski, Jan (29 and 30 January 2018)
Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies '18
University of Manchester. ** Lecture 1
"Bystanders and the Holocaust in Poland"
** Lecture 2
"The Polish 'Blue' Police and its Role in the Implementation of the 'Final Solution'"
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grabowski, Jan 1962 births 20th-century Canadian historians Living people Historians of the Holocaust in Poland Polish emigrants to Canada 21st-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Université de Montréal alumni University of Ottawa faculty University of Warsaw alumni Polish people of Jewish descent Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 20th-century Polish historians 21st-century Canadian historians