The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Presents the Contemporary Antisemitism Series:

"Holocaust Distortion as a New Form of Holocaust Denial: the Case of Poland​"

featuring Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lecture 6:00-7:30 PM 

Kinesiology and Health Studies Building, Room 100

28 Division Street

About the Speaker: 

Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war.  He has authored/co-authored or edited twenty books and published more than eighty articles in learned journals in many languages. Professor Grabowski’s book: Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland has been awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014.  In 2018 he co-edited and co-authored  “Dalej jest noc” [Night Without End] (a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland), published in 2022 in English by Indiana University Press.  Grabowski’s most recent book “On Duty. The Role of the Polish “Blue” Police in the Holocaust” (“Na Posterunku. Udział Polskiej Policji Granatowej i kryminalnej w Zagładzie Żydów”,  Czarne Publishing House), was published in Poland in 2020 and will be published in 2024 in English by Yad Vashem. 

This lecture series is supported by the Azrieli Foundation.