In my blog post dated 3rd December 2013 I incorrectly used inverted commas in the title. My intention was to provide emphasis but I accept that the use of quotation marks around the word “guilty” may have indicated to readers that this was a direct quote from Dr Jakubowicz’s work. I accept that Dr Jakubowicz never wrote or said those words.

In fact, Dr Jakubowicz has acknowledged that, “One often-unrecognised tragedy of the Holocaust was that three million Catholic Poles died …. along with the three million Polish Jews at the hands of the Nazis ( https://andrewjakubowicz.com/publications/notes-for-a-grave-under-snow/)”

Dr Jakubowicz feels that my post has,
“significantly misrepresented my position, invented a phrase that I have never used, nor would use, and construed me as an enemy of the Polish nation. In my research on relations between Polish citizens of Christian and Jewish faiths, all of which has been academically refereed, I have been an assiduous supporter of reconciliation between Polish Christians and Polish Jews. In research published in recent months I have revealed more information about the role of the Polish government in exile in doing its utmost to support those of its Jewish citizens it was able to aid.”

I accept that my original post caused Dr Jakubowicz distress and retract it fully. The blog of 3rd December 2013 has been removed.