Jan Grabowski

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jan Grabowski
Occupation	Historian Of The Modern Age
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1962(1962-06-24)
Age	62
Birthplace	Warsaw
Country	Poland
Birth City	Masovian Voivodeship
Horoscope	Gemini

Jan Grabowski Biography

Jan Grabowski is one of the most popular and richest Historian Of The Modern Age who was born on June 24, 1962 in Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. Grabowski was born in Warsaw (Poland) to a Roman Catholic mother, and a Jewish father. His father Zbigniew Grabowski [pl], a Holocaust survivor, and Krakow-based chemistry professor, was a soldier in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Grabowski was co-founder of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, Poland in 2003. His 2013 book Hunt for the Jews, Betrayal, and Murder in German Occupied Poland won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.

Grabowski is best known for his book Hunt for the Jews, first published in Poland in 2011 as Judenjagd: Polowanie na Zydow 1942–1945. In 2013 a revised and updated English-language edition was published by Indiana University Press as Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland, and in 2016 a revised and expanded edition was published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem.

Awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in 2014, the book describes the Judenjagd (German: “Jew hunt”) from 1942 onwards, focusing on alleged Dąbrowa Tarnowska County, a rural area in southeastern Poland. The Judenjagd was the German search for Jews who had escaped from the liquidated ghettos in Poland and were trying to hide among the non-Jewish population. Grabowski relied on court records from the 1940s in Poland, testimony collected after the war by the Central Committee of Polish Jews, and records gathered by the German justice system during investigations in the 1960s.

Grabowski was appointed a professor at the University of Ottawa in 1993.

Jan Grabowski Net Worth

Jan Grabowski is one of the richest Historian Of The Modern Age from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jan Grabowski 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jan Grabowski, born 1962, is a Polish-Canadian historian at the University of Ottawa. He specializes in Jewish-Polish relations during World War II in German-occupied Poland and the Holocaust in Poland.

Grabowski, while at the University of Warsaw was involved in the Independent Student’ Union from 1981 to 1985. He helped to manage an underground printing press for Solidarity. He was awarded his M.A. In 1986, he received his M.A. and immigrated to Canada in 1988. The communist government in Poland had relaxed travel restrictions. He said that he would have stayed if he knew the regime would collapse a year later. It was like looking through a thick glass wall at the world. It was a strange unreality. The rules were obscure, bizarre, and even inhuman. After one year, the system collapsed like a house made of cards. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. at the Universite Montreal for a thesis titled The Common Ground. French and Settled Natives in Montreal 1667-1760.

The book sparked a heated public debate, particularly when first published in Poland in 2011. Grabowski received death threats. When a German newspaper reviewed the book favourably in 2015, a right-wing Polish website, Fronda.pl [pl] , ran a piece with the headline, “Sieg Heil, Mr. Grabowski”, accompanied by a photograph of Joseph Goebbels; Grabowski successfully sued the website’s owner for libel.

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In 2016–17 he was an Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he conducted research into the Polish Blue Police for a project entitled “Polish ‘Blue’ Police, Bystanders, and the Holocaust in Occupied Poland, 1939–1945”. Grabowski received a grant for the project (2016–2020) from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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Jan Ranked on the list of most popular Historian Of The Modern Age. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Poland. Jan Grabowski celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.

On 19 June 2017, some 180 Holocaust historians and other historians of modern European history signed an open letter in Grabowski’s defence, addressed to Calin Rovinescu, Chancellor of the University of Ottawa. Describing the campaign against Grabowski as “an attack on academic freedom and integrity”, the letter said that “[h]is scholarship holds to the highest standards of academic research and publication”, and that the Polish League Against Defamation puts forth a “distorted and whitewashed version of the history of Poland during the Holocaust era”. Signatories included Yitzhak Arad, Omer Bartov, Yehuda Bauer, Michael Berenbaum, Randolph L. Braham, Richard Breitman, Christopher Browning, Deborah Dwork, Michael Fleming, Christian Gerlach, Peter Hayes, Deborah Lipstadt, Antony Polonsky, Dina Porat, Alvin H. Rosenfeld and Robert Jan van Pelt.