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Krzysztof Kozek.
APC 2025/0248 Complainant / The Australian
Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Dear Ms Szymanska,
Re: The Australian article "Hijacking History of the Holocaust", (Print) 17 August 2024
The Australian Press Council (the Council) acknowledges receipt of your complaint regarding the published material.
Consideration of your Complaint
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Bozena Szymanska's complaint to the Press Council of Australia (19 th September 20224)
The article written by Jan Grabowski, professor of history at the University of Ottava, deals with the
German Final Solution during World War II and its execution by Germans on the territory of
Germany-occupied Poland. It shifts the German responsibility for the Holocaust from Germany to
Poland. It contains many inaccuracies, insinuations, omissions (e.g., conveniently not informing the
reader that for hiding a Jew or helping in any other form, the whole Polish family was shot on the
spot) and outright lies (a claim of the number of Jews killed by Polish farmers - where did he get his
statistics from?).
The article is historically inaccurate, deflects the German responsibility for exterminating Jews and
spreads anti-Polish misinformation.
Unfortunately, The Australian (read by me for the last thirty years), by printing this article and
refusing to print Letters to the Editor in response to the article does not even give an appearance of
fairness. In 2023, I also wrote a Letter to the Editor in response to another article that used the term
"Sobibor as Polish extermination camp", and again to no avail (letter - attached). In April of 2024 -
another article by Phillip Adams. Refusing to publish my Letter to the Editor breaches the Council's
General Principle 4. In addition, the Australian Press Council should remind the Australian that it is
obliged to follow the UNESCO guideline and use the term "German Nazi Concentration Camps in
occupied Poland" instead of "Nazi Concentration Camps."
How was I affected by the article?
As a Polish-Australian I feel personally offended by historical misinformation that clearly stated that
the Holocaust was more a result of the complicity of the Polish nation than the execution of the Final
Solution by Germans.
What is more, accusing all Polish farmers of hunting for the Jews was a personal insult to me - a
daughter and grand-daughter of generations of Polish farmers. My parents as teenagers were caught
in a round up by the Germans and transported to Germany - one working on a farm, another in a
factory as slaves for many years.
Submission Successful (presscouncil.org.au)
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