Jan Grabowski and Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold Interviews Jan Grabowski on His New Book “Whitewash: Poland and the Jews”

In partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation and the Jewish Quarterly

Poland, the epicentre of the Holocaust, began denying responsibility as soon as the Nazi atrocities ended. The nation’s distortion of history continues today - with disturbing consequences. In this groundbreaking essay produced for the Jewish Quarterly, Jan Grabowski, a world-renowned Holocaust historian, examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. He recounts his own experience as the victim of smears and a notorious lawsuit for questioning the complicity of Poles in the destruction of the country’s Jews, and examines the far reaching consequences of Poland’s historical distortions, which have been repeated and replicated worldwide to challenge the truth of the holocaust. Jan is in conversation with journalist Tanya Gold.