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(Poland) Fears for Polish Holocaust research as historians ordered to apologise – The Guardian (Jon Henley | February 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on February 10, 2021
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, International, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Researcher responsibilities, Respect for persons

The Linked Original Item was Posted On February 10, 2021

Closeup of a judge slamming down the hammer

Court tells professors to apologise to 81-year-old woman who claims they defamed her late uncle

A court has ordered two prominent historians to apologise to an elderly woman who claimed they had defamed her late uncle over his wartime actions, in a case seen as critical to independent Holocaust research in Poland.

Events and news stories like this are deeply troubling. Alarming revisions of history are bad enough, but when they impact on scientific enquiry and research outputs, matters become truly awful.

Prof Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa and Prof Barbara Engelking of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research were accused of defaming Edward Malinowski by suggesting in a book that he gave up Jews to Nazi Germans.

In a civil case condemned by Jewish organisations and historians as an attack on free academic inquiry, the researchers were told to apologise for a passage in Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland, a 1,600-page work they co-edited, which the court said “violated Malinowski’s honour” by “providing inaccurate information”.

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