Poland prosecutes Holocaust scholars for libel.

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Well, I don't see why not!?
Considering we're in a new age of censorship.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/yad-vas...esearch-657341

Yad Vashem decries Polish libel suit as ‘attack on free research’
By JEREMY SHARON JANUARY 31, 2021 20:30
HALL OF Names, Yad Vashem. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH 90)
HALL OF Names, Yad Vashem.
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH 90)
Senior historian at Yad Vashem says libel suit against two Holocaust academics designed to ‘sue into submission’ anyone departs from Polish government’s view of history.
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Yad Vashem has called the current trial of two Holocaust historians in Poland an attack on free and open research and said such legal pressure was “unacceptable.”
Prof. Barbara Engelking, founder and Director of the Polish Center of Holocaust Research, and Prof. Jan Grabowski, a Polish-Canadian historian of the Holocaust at the University of Ottawa were sued for libel last year in a civil court under Poland’s notorious law allowing for civil suits against anyone claiming that “the Polish Nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich.”
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The last court hearing was January 12, and a ruling is expected on February 9.
The suit alleges that Engelking and Grabowski libeled the mayor of a village in eastern Poland when they included in their book testimony of a Jewish woman who accused him of betraying 22 Jews who were hiding in forests near the mayor’s village to the Nazis.
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“Any effort to set the bounds of academic and public discourse through political or judicial pressure is unacceptable,” said Yad Vashem in a statement to the press.
“It constitutes a serious attack on free and open research. Legal proceedings against Holocaust scholars because of their research are incompatible with accepted academic research norms and amount to an attack on the effort to achieve a full and balanced picture of the history of the Holocaust and on the veracity and, reliability of its underlying historical sources.”
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Engelking and Grabowski edited a book in Polish in 2011 called Night Without End which examined the fate of tens of thousands of Jews who escaped various Nazi ghettoes established throughout Poland and fled into the countryside between 1942 and 1945.
The book found that the large majority of Jews who escaped the ghettos were ultimately murdered by the Nazis and that many were betrayed by Poles.
One chapter, authored by Engelking, told the story of a Jewish woman, Estera Siemiatycka, who fled into hiding in the countryside and sheltered in the village of Malinowo in the Podlaskie region of eastern Poland.
The village elder, Edward Malinowski, arranged – at a price – for Siemiatycka to obtain false identity papers and she was sent to Germany where she worked for the rest of the war.
The mayor, however, was put on trial in 1947 for collaborating with the Nazis and betraying Jews hiding out in the forests near the village, but Siemiatycka testified in his defense and he was acquitted.
Yet, in subsequent testimony given in the 1990s to the Shoah Foundation, Siemiatycka said she knew Malinowski had been involved in hunting and betraying Jews in the region but had lied in court because she felt indebted to him for saving her life.
Engelking cited this account in her book and was subsequently sued by Malinowski’s 80-year old niece, Filomena Leszczyńska, according to the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, for damaging her right “to enjoy the remembrance of a deceased person,” her “right to one’s national pride and identity,” her “right to a fact-based history of WWII,” and her “right to the protection of dignity.”
The newspaper also alleges that it was the Polish Anti-Defamation League – strongly aligned with the ruling populist, nationalist Law and Justice Party that passed the 2018 Holocaust libel law – that had urged Leszczyńska to file the suit against the two historians.

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Poland has also prosecuted people for Holocaust denial.

I'm sure Yad Yashem isn't complaining about that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariusz_Ratajczak

Dariusz Ratajczak (November 28, 1962 in Opole, Poland – 2010 in Opole, Poland[1]) was a Polish historian (formerly of the University of Opole), publicist and right-wing activist.[2] In 1999 he was convicted of Holocaust denial in Poland (the case was upheld on appeal in 2001).[3][4]

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Jaskiewicz was fired out of job in Poland for blaming Jews for the Holocaust.

I'm sure Yad Yashem wasn't crying about that.

https://www.stljewishlight.com/news/...3bd14985d.html

Polish history professor dismissed for blaming Jews for Shoah
May 29, 2013 Updated May 29, 2013
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WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish historian Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz was dismissed from the Polish Academy of Sciences following an interview in which he partly blames Jews for the Holocaust.

Jasiewicz, 61, will lose his position as head of the Department of Analysis of Eastern Issues on June 1 but announced that he will appeal the decision.

In the interview, which was published in April in a special edition of Focus magazine on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Jasiewicz said that “generations of Jews worked for centuries to bring about the Holocaust,” that “without the active participation of the Jews the Holocaust would have been impossible,” and that “it is a waste of time to dialogue with the Jews.”

Director of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Eugeniusz Cezary Krol, said in a statement that Jasiewicz was fired for violating the elementary standards of scientific rigor.

Scholars and historians at the academy protested against what Jasiewicz said in the popular scientific magazine, saying his opinions were harmful.

“The Jews accuse us [Poles] of the worst of everything; they are violent and arrogant against us. Our role in this dialogue is limited to apologizing,” Jasiewicz told “Do Rzeczy” magazine in an article about the controversy.

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Jaskiewicz was right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police

bread.[5] The Polish-Jewish historian and Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum has described the cruelty of the ghetto Jewish police as "at times greater than that of the Germans, the Ukrainians and the Latvians."[6] The Jewish ghetto police ultimately shared the same fate with all their fellow ghetto inmates. On the ghettos' liquidation (1942-1943), they were either killed on–site or sent to extermination camps.

https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ter...ce/ter004.html

Ringelblum commented bitterly that the general Polish response to the 44 day-long Grosse Aktion had been complete indifference. No call for resistance, no word of encouragement, no assurance of support. Yet he always tried to present a balanced picture. For example, he was as equally condemnatory of the ghetto's Jewish Police as he was of Polish fraudsters and anti-Semites:

“The Jewish Police had a bad reputation even before the start of the 'resettlements'... Unlike the Polish Police, which did not take part in abductions for the labour camps, the Jewish Police did engage in this dirty work. The police were also notorious for their shocking corruption and lack of morality… But their meanness reached a pinnacle in the course of the deportations... The police became mentally conditioned to doing this dirty work and, therefore, performed it with perfection... There are people who maintain that each society has the police it deserves, that the malaise of helping the occupier slaughter 300,000 Jews infected the entire society and is not limited to the police, who are only a mirror of our society. Other people argue that the police is the haven of the morally weak psychological types, who do everything in their power to survive the difficult times, who believe that the end determines all means, and the end is to survive the war – even if survival is bound up with the taking of other people's lives.”