They called his uncle “kolaborationist”: The Polish court forces historians to apologize to 80-year-old

Despite convicting them of disturbing the image in their book, the court in Warsaw did not order them to pay any compensation.

The World Centre for the Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vase, called the case “a serious assault on free and open research”, writes The Guardian, records Periscope.

Professors Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski can appeal the verdict.

This was a civilian case brought before the court by 80-year-old Filomea Lesczznysinska.

About 6 million Jews died in Holocaust, half of whom were Jews from Poland. Some 90 percent of Poland's Jewish population were killed.

The book “Nata pa Fund” quoted evidence from Holocaust survivors who had told him that the chairman, Edward Malinowski, had betrayed by pointing to the location of 22 Jews in German soldiers. This group of Jews was then executed.

Mrs. Lesszzynska had said that the authors of the book had forgotten to mention that a post-war trial had pronounced her innocent uncle on charges of co-operation with the Nazis.

The Poles make up the largest national group honored by Yad Vashem as the best “among the UN” for helping Jews escape from Nazi Germans. It estimates 7112 Polish people who are estimated to have saved some 35 thousand Jews.

Despite their heroism, Yad Vast says historical research like this one shows that “this aid had been relatively rare, and attacks on Jews were widespread.” /Periscope