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Auschwitz museum slams New Yorker Holocaust piece on Poland

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Published: 2 April 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

High-profile journalist accused of multiple mistakes in article about historians under attack over Poland’s role in the Holocaust

‘So many lies’: Auschwitz museum slams New Yorker Holocaust piece on Poland (Times of Israel)
Article’s subtitle accuses Polish government of prosecuting Holocaust scholars ‘to exonerate the nation of the murders of three million Jews’

The historians under attack for exploring Poland’s role in the Holocaust (New Yorker)
MASHA GESSEN: Scholars face defamation suits, and potential criminal charges, in the Polish government’s effort to exonerate the nation of any role in the murders of three million Jews during the Nazi occupation

Photo: Barbara Engelking (left) and Jan Grabowski (Yad Vashem/AP)
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