Speaker: Jan Grabowski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a doctor honoris causa at Lund University, Sweden. 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’, English edition 2022], a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland. The book triggered an angry reaction of the Polish authorities and resulted in a long civil trial prepared and financed by state-funded, right-wing NGO. Polish state-owned TV and newspapers took part in an unprecedented campaign of hate which accompanied the legal proceedings. In May 2024 Grabowski published “On Duty. The Role of the Polish “Blue” Police in the Holocaust” (Yad Vashem Presses), and in August 2024 “Whitewash. Poland and the Jews” appeared as a special copy of The Jewish Quarterly. The Polish edition of “Whitewash” has been published in Poland in November 2024, and the second English edition has been released by University of Toronto Press in August 2025.

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