Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born July 15, 1962) is an American historian. He has been described as nationalist by mainstream historians. Inversion of the Historical Truth about Jedwabne, Joanna Michlic, American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies



Early life

Chodakiewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland. He earned a BSc from San Francisco State University in 1988, an MA from Columbia University in 1990, an MPhil from Columbia University in 1992, and a PhD from Columbia University in 2001. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz biography at the Institute of World Politics.  Washington, DC

Controversies

Holocaust revisionism

Chodakiewicz has promoted controversial views about the Holocaust, including:

 "Many Jews collaborate[d] with Soviet Communists"
 "Jews [are] more likely to kill Poles after World War II"
 For these "reasons", the murder of Jewish survivors returning to their homeland 


  was "not antisemitic"

Chodakiewicz also appeared in traditionalist Catholic media, like Radio Maryja, promoting conspiracy theories about Jews. In a 2001 interview by this radio, he accused "Jewish memoirists of bragging about the shooting of hundreds of Poles by "Jewish partisans". Despite Chodakiewicz's record of antisemitic writings, US President George W. Bush made him a member of the oversight board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He served until 2010.

Reception

Many historians, including Princeton University professor Jan T. Gross and University of Toronto professor Piotr Wróbel criticized Chodakiewicz, saying that Chodakiewicz had written several pieces that trivialized the Holocaust and the violent antisemitism of many Polish Catholics. In his 2003 book After the Holocaust: Polish Jewish Relations in the Wake of World War II, he underestimated the number of Jews that Polish Catholics had killed in post-war pogroms. 




  He also accused Holocaust victims of being "Jewish Communists".

Historian Jan Grabowski criticized Chodakiewicz's views as "copious victim blaming". Other historians, including David Engel, Joanna Michlic and Laurence Weinbaum, shared the same opinion as Grabowski. In particularly, Weinbaum wrote,

referring to the Polish nationalists being upset with the revelation of the Jedwabne pogrom.

Related pages

 Jan Żaryn
 David Irving
 Louis Farrakhan
 Richard C. Lukas
 Polish Memory Law

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