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Anti-Semitism Book Could Land Historian in Jail
photo:”A group of rabbis places stones on top of the memorial monument in Jedwabne.”
By Siobhán Dowling in Berlin
Prosecutors in Poland are considering charging the US historian Jan Tomasz Gross with slandering the Polish nation following the publication of his book on anti-Semitism in the country after World War II. The book has provoked a storm of controversy. A new book probing the murder of Jews in Poland after the end of World War II has not only unleashed a storm of controversy, it may land its author in jail. The Krakow Prosecutors Office is considering bringing charges against the Polish-American historian Jan Tomasz Gross for his book “Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz.” The charge? Slandering the Polish nation. spiegel.de
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February 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Unfortunately, the Polish public opinion has largely reacted with hysteria and denial to the facts presented in Gross’s book. As a Pole I am deeply shocked by those facts (majority of them I wasn’t aware of, which says volumes about the way history has been taught to me in school) and by the hatred and denial with which the truth about Poles’ past crimes has been met in Poland. There is something very wrong with my nation.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Poland won’t sue author of book on post-WWII anti-Semitism
The author of a book accusing Poles of persecuting Jews in the years immediately after the Holocaust will not face charges of slandering the Polish nation, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953580.html
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