Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)
“'Night Without End': New Scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland"
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Last year he was appointed the 2021-2022 Cleveringa Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war. Professor Grabowski’s book, Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014. In 2018 he co-edited and co-authored “Dalej jest noc” [Night Without End] (a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland). Night Without End was published in September 2022 in English by Indiana University Press. His most recent book “On Duty. The Role of the Polish “Blue” Police in the Holocaust” appeared in Poland, in March 2020.