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THE LAWFARE PROJECT APPEALS RULING BY DISTRICT COURT IN WARSAW AGAINST HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

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Monday, December 11, 2023
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NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 16, 2023 The Lawfare Project (LP) and counsel in Poland appealed the District Court in Warsaw's decision to dismiss the case of Krystyna Budnicka, Michał Głowiński and Leszek Żukowski (plaintiffs) against Andrzej Ryba (defendant). With LP's support, counsel in Poland represented the plaintiffs, two Holocaust survivors and a former Polish Underground Army fighter and prisoner of Nazi camps, against the defendant who published books by Nazi war criminal Leon Degrelle. The lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2018, sought to force the publisher to cease the sale and distribution of the offending material, to publish an apology, and to pay monetary compensation to charities of the plaintiffs' choosing. The broader goal of this action was to ensure that Polish law prohibiting Holocaust denial is enforced and that similar publications are blocked. The appeal was filed in Poland's Court of Appeals.

Key Points: 
  • The broader goal of this action was to ensure that Polish law prohibiting Holocaust denial is enforced and that similar publications are blocked.
  • The appeal was filed in Poland's Court of Appeals.
  • "The Court of first instance allowed Holocaust denial and Nazi propaganda books, presented as 'memoires' and 'historical sources,' to be legally published and sold in Poland," said attorney Michal Jablonski.
  • Moreover, such books cannot be marketed as historical books but rather, if anything, as memories of Leon Degrelle, who was a Nazi war criminal.

THE LAWFARE PROJECT APPEALS RULING BY DISTRICT COURT IN WARSAW AGAINST HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Retrieved on: 
Monday, December 11, 2023
Sale, The Holocaust, Lawfare Project, Appellate court, Book, Virginia General District Court, History, Organic, Army, District court, Home Army, Freedom, Nazism, LP, Publication, World War II

NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 16, 2023 The Lawfare Project (LP) and counsel in Poland appealed the District Court in Warsaw's decision to dismiss the case of Krystyna Budnicka, Michał Głowiński and Leszek Żukowski (plaintiffs) against Andrzej Ryba (defendant). With LP's support, counsel in Poland represented the plaintiffs, two Holocaust survivors and a former Polish Underground Army fighter and prisoner of Nazi camps, against the defendant who published books by Nazi war criminal Leon Degrelle. The lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2018, sought to force the publisher to cease the sale and distribution of the offending material, to publish an apology, and to pay monetary compensation to charities of the plaintiffs' choosing. The broader goal of this action was to ensure that Polish law prohibiting Holocaust denial is enforced and that similar publications are blocked. The appeal was filed in Poland's Court of Appeals.

Key Points: 
  • The broader goal of this action was to ensure that Polish law prohibiting Holocaust denial is enforced and that similar publications are blocked.
  • The appeal was filed in Poland's Court of Appeals.
  • "The Court of first instance allowed Holocaust denial and Nazi propaganda books, presented as 'memoires' and 'historical sources,' to be legally published and sold in Poland," said attorney Michal Jablonski.
  • Moreover, such books cannot be marketed as historical books but rather, if anything, as memories of Leon Degrelle, who was a Nazi war criminal.