The third hearing in the case that Jan Grabowski had brought against the Good Name Reduta took place in the court in Warsaw on Friday, the Good Name Reduta said. The case concerns a letter from 135 Polish scientists opposing Grabowski’s activities.
At Friday’s trial, historian Dr. Piotr Gontarczyk. Referring to Grabowski’s activity, he stated that its purpose is “to fabricate history in a way that is intentional and easily detectable in whatever direction it is being done”. According to the witness, “these are programmed actions, as if aimed at creating a false version of history.” He added that Grabowski made numerous forgeries in his publications.
We are not talking about a debate or disagreement, but gross forgeries of documents – cutting out fragments of text with scissors or changing individual words
– emphasized Dr. Gontarczyk. He added that Grabowski’s manipulations also include “falsifying witness statements or using bibliographic descriptions that make it difficult to find source information.”
Gontarczyk also explained that he has been researching and verifying Grabowski’s publications for many years, including publishing source documents. Based on this, Dr. Gontarczyk that Grabowski is guided by “methods that are completely unacceptable in science”, such as falsification of facts, quotes and incorrect names of documents. As an example, Dr. Gontarczyk eg excerpts from the book “Verder is de nacht”, of which Grabowski was the scientific editor. It is described there a story from the ghetto in Bochnia, where the Jewish police tracked down their compatriots and passed on information about them to the Germans. Dr. Gontarczyk noted that in the book edited by Jan Grabowski there is information that this cooperative activity was carried out by the Polish police. The manipulation carried out by Grabowski consisted of replacing the Jewish police with Polish ones, as stated in the book.
One of Grabowski’s main theses is the claim that “Poles contributed to the death of 200,000 Jews.” Like dr. Piotr Gontarczyk pointed out, these claims “have absolutely no real scientific basis, but they influence the image of Poland and are used by circles that regard Prof. Grabowski as serious scientific work.” He added that he had not received any response regarding his publications and substantive polemics with Prof. Grabowski. He said Grabowski uses “surrogate response technology.” Dr. For example, Gontarczyk pointed out that Jan Grabowski, in response to an article by a Jewish historian describing this topic, wrote that “someone is adopting the views of a right-wing lunatic from Poland”, while “he did not refer to the sources, the facts, what we know about this topic. There were only insults and insults. Gontarczyk also notes that this kind of reaction, in which the author presents his critics as, for example, Holocaust reactionaries, is accepted in the US and ensures that the substantive discussion comes to a standstill.
The process has been running since September 2022.
Jan Grabowski’s trial against RDI has been ongoing since September 2022. The historian affiliated with the University of Ottawa is demanding an apology from the foundation and the purchase of copies of his book about crimes committed by Poles against Jews. Grabowski’s lawsuit is a response to an open letter published by RDI in June 2017, signed by 134 Polish scientists, the authors of which wrote, among other things: “Grabowski does not meet basic principles of researcher reliability”, “builds propaganda constructs”, “eliminates important facts”, “has nothing to do with science”, “betrays the vocation of a scientist”.
We call on Jan Grabowski to stop slandering the Polish nation and adopt an attitude worthy of an investigator, which is to serve the truth. Jan Grabowski’s activity not only does not contribute to the knowledge of the truth, but is also a breeding ground for lies in international public and scientific life, and is therefore contrary to the vocation of a scientist.
— it was in a letter from 2017.
So far he has testified at the trials, among others: Prof. Grzegorz Berendt, Holocaust researcher Prof. Grzegorz Berendt, who, like Dr. Piotr Gontarczyk, referred to Grabowski’s inability to participate in scientific polemics and his use of the method of belittling the critics of his work and using insubstantial arguments.
Dr. Piotr Gontarczyk noted that he did not participate in the creation of the 2017 position of Polish scientists. He did not sign the letter published by RDI, but was acquainted with its contents and agrees with the arguments presented in the letter are supplied. are, in his opinion, “fully justified”.
In recent weeks, Dr. Piotr Gontarczyk and the Institute of National Remembrance announced the premiere of a book that will be a detailed answer to the “Next is the Night” publication. “The whole world will be able to see what kind of manipulator of historical knowledge Jan Grabowski is,” said the president of the Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Nawrocki, in an interview published in the weekly “Sieci” on July 3, 2023.
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Source: wPolityce