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Whitewash : Poland and the Jews /

"In Whitewash, Jan Grabowski brings to light the dangerous practice of Holocaust distortion through the lens of the Polish political landscape. Of the three million Polish Jews who found themselves under German occupation during World War Two, no more than 1 per cent survived the war. Poland wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grabowski, Jan, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : New Jewish Press, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Holocaust denial > Poland.
Jews > Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Historiography.
Poland > Ethnic relations.
Négationnisme > Pologne.
Juifs > Pologne.
Collective memory
Poland
Table of Contents:
  • Whitewash: Poland and the Jews
  • Why Poland?
  • Enforcing the lies
  • Lawfare
  • Blaming the victim
  • Wikipedia and the Holocaust-- The Righteous Defence
  • Indifference was impossible
  • Anti-communism trumps antisemitism
  • Polonizing Treblinka, part I: then
  • Polonizing Treblinka, part II: now
  • Polonizing Auschwitz
  • Creating a usable past
  • What really happened in Markowa
  • The Holocaust is not a part of our history
  • What can be done?