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Jan Zbigniew Grabowski (born June 24, 1962) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Ottawa, best known for his scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland. His research, focusing on Polish-Jewish relations and Polish collaboration under Nazi occupation, has earned international acclaim but also provoked controversy, including death threats and legal challenges from Polish nationalists disputing his findings on Polish complicity in Holocaust atrocities.[1][2] Born in Warsaw, Poland, Grabowski emigrated to Canada in 1986 and has authored seminal works such as Hunt for the Jews (2013) and Night Without End (2022), receiving accolades like the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.[3] His 2023 study with Shira Klein examined Holocaust-related content on Wikipedia, identifying inaccuracies.[4] Despite facing harassment, including a libel lawsuit and attacks at his lectures, Grabowski continues to contribute to Holocaust historiography.[5]

Early life and education

Jan Grabowski was born on June 24, 1962, in Warsaw, Poland, to a Jewish father, a Holocaust survivor and chemistry professor from Kraków, and a Catholic mother.[6] His father participated in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. While studying at the University of Warsaw, where he earned a MA in 1986, Grabowski engaged in anti-communist activism.[6] Following the relaxation of travel restrictions by Poland’s communist regime, he emigrated to Canada in 1986.[6] He later completed a PhD in history at the Université de Montréal.[a][1] Since 1993, Grabowski has been a professor at the University of Ottawa.[6]

Career and research

Grabowski’s scholarship focuses on the Holocaust in Poland, particularly Polish-Jewish relations and local collaboration under Nazi occupation.[1] His work challenges narratives that minimize Polish complicity, arguing that many Poles contributed to Jewish persecution.[6] His 2013 book, Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland, documents Polish betrayals of Jews, earning the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize.[7] In 2022, he co-edited Night without End, a comprehensive study of Jewish experiences in occupied Poland. ... Read more

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Jan Zbigniew Grabowski (born June 24, 1962) is a Polish-Canadian professor of history at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland.[8]

Co-founder in 2003 of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, in Warsaw, Poland, Grabowski is best known for his book Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.

Early life and education

Grabowski was born in Warsaw to a Roman Catholic mother and Jewish father.[9] His father, Zbigniew Ryszard Grabowski né Abrahamer, a Holocaust survivor and chemistry professor[10] from Kraków, fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.[11]

While at the University of Warsaw, Grabowski was active in the Independent Students' Union between 1981 and 1985, where he helped to run an underground printing press for the Solidarity movement. He received his M.A. in 1986,[12] and in 1988 he emigrated to Canada after travel restrictions had been eased by Poland's communist government.[11] If he had known the regime would fall a year later, he would have stayed, he told an interviewer: "When I left in 1988 I thought there was no future for any young person in Poland. It felt like you were looking at the world through a thick wall of glass. It was sort of an un-reality ... the rules were oblique, strange, inhuman even. Then after one year the system seemed to collapse like a house of cards."[12] He received his Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 1994 for a thesis entitled The Common Ground. Settled Natives and French in Montréal 1667–1760.[13]

Academic appointments

Grabowski became a faculty member at the University of Ottawa in 1993.[11] In 2016–17 he was an Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he conducted research into the Blue Police for a project entitled "Polish 'Blue' Police, Bystanders, and the Holocaust in Occupied Poland, 1939–1945".[14][15] He received a grant for the project (2016–2020) from the Canadian ... Read more


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  1. ^ a b c "Dr. Jan Grabowski". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  2. ^ "Holocaust historian receives death threats". Israel National News. June 20, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  3. ^ "Professor Jan Grabowski wins the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize". Yad Vashem. December 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  4. ^ Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research. 37 (2): 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  5. ^ "Far-right MP forces abandonment of Holocaust scholar's lecture at German institute in Warsaw". Notes from Poland. May 31, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e "'Orgy of Murder': The Poles Who 'Hunted' Jews and Turned Them Over to the Nazis". Haaretz. February 11, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  7. ^ "Professor Jan Grabowski wins the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize". Yad Vashem. December 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  8. ^ "Jan Grabowski" Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, University of Ottawa.
  9. ^ Snyder, Donald (12 January 2015). "The Summer Polish Jews Were Hunted" Archived 22 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine (interview with Jan Grabowski). The Forward.
  10. ^ "Zbigniew Ryszard Grabowski" (in Polish). nekrologi.wyborcza.pl. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  11. ^ a b c Aderet, Ofer (11 February 2017). "'Orgy of Murder': The Poles Who 'Hunted' Jews and Turned Them Over to the Nazis". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  12. ^ a b Lough, Shannon (26 February 2014). "Twenty-five years since the fall of communism in Poland". davidmckie.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  13. ^ "The Common Ground. Settled Natives and French in Montréal 1667-1760" Archived 22 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Université du Québec à Montréal.
  14. ^ "Fellow Dr. Jan Grabowski". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  15. ^ Grabowski, Jan (April 2017). "The Polish Police Collaboration in the Holocaust" (PDF). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 February 2018.
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