Jan Grabowski is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
“Few scholars can speak with as much insight and authority about the politicization of Holocaust memory in today’s Poland as Jan Grabowski. Drawing on vast knowledge as well as hard-won personal experience, he delineates in Whitewash the distortions, abuses, and outright lies about Polish complicity in the Holocaust as well as post-war manipulations of the horrors that had occurred. Compelling from first page to last, the book is essential reading for anyone wishing to learn about the destructive processes of historical nullification.” -- Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University “A very important book from a master historian of the subject.” -- Jan Gross, Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor Emeritus of War and Society, Princeton University “There is only one country in the world that has introduced a law that prohibits assigning guilt for participation in the Holocaust regardless of the evidence. And only one European country that has not yet regulated the status of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Jan Grabowski’s excellent book explains why this is the country where the Holocaust took place.” -- Joanna S. Tokarska-Bakir, Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences