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Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, together with the E. Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Lodz, are creating a national node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure within the framework of ERIC
Michal Kowalski's reply to the article by Jan Grabowski and Katarzyna Markusz
Michal Kowalski, author of the chapter titled “I think Jews will be taken to Treblinka. It's better for you to stay at home.’ Polish residents of towns around Treblinka as Holocaust witnesses. A Local Study”, which appeared in the volume "Oto widać i oto słychać" responds to an article by Prof. Jan Grabowski and Dr. Katarzyna Markusz from the Jewish.pl portal.
POLIN AWARDS 2024
Honorable award in the POLIN 2024 AWARDS competition for Center member Dr. Karolina Panz
Live stream - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Academic Conference
Live straeam - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Academic Conference
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Academic Conference
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Academic Conference "Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age" begins tomorrow. Direct participation only for participants who have pre-registered. Tomorrow, from 10.00 am, we will make available a live vieo stream.
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Current statement Center's regarding the changes to the law about the Institute of National Remembrance
Current statement Center's regarding the changes to the law about the Institute of National Remembrance29.01.2018 12:02:22
Statement of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research regarding the changes the law about the Institute of National Remembrance voted by the Polish Parliament on January 26, 2018
The Polish Center for Holocaust Research expresses its deep concern with the changes to the law regarding the Institute of National Remembrance, as adopted by the Polish Parliament during the January 26, 2018 sitting, which would penalize those who „ascribe to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State responsibility or co-responsibility for the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich”.
We consider the adopted law a tool intended to facilitate the ideological manipulation and imposition of the history policy of the Polish state. The new legislation would constitute an unprecedented (and unknown in a democratic system) intrusion into the debate about the Polish history.
Historical truth, which becomes known in the course of thorough, document-based historical research, cannot be decreed. The law which has been voted is an instrument which can muzzle discussions surrounding independent scientific inquiries which shed light on the complex history of the Holocaust. The popularization of this research cannot be subject to control and political pressures.
Polish Center for Holocaust Research
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