US EditionKarol Nawrocki, Right-Wing Holocaust Revisionist Historian, Elected Polish President - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian and head of the Institute of National Remembrance, was elected president of Poland after a Sunday runoff election in 2025.
- The election occurred amid Poland's controversial 2018 law outlawing accusations of Polish complicity in Nazi crimes, raising stakes over Holocaust memory and national narrative.
- Nawrocki centered his campaign on nationalist Holocaust revisionism minimizing local collaborators, gaining Law and Justice party endorsement and support from antisemitic candidate Grzegorz Braun's backers.
- He narrowly defeated Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw's liberal-centrist mayor, amid criticism that the downgraded law and nationalist narratives chilled historical research on Polish antisemitism.
- Nawrocki's victory marks the Law and Justice party's return to power and is expected to hinder centrist reforms while he pledges to combat what he called "disgusting attacks on Poland by Holocaust scholars.
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The ForwardKarol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president
Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.
JTA: Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president – The Occidental Observer
Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president Nowrocki has promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in the presidential palace. Karol Nawrocki speaks to supporters following the Polish presidential runoff election, June 1 in Warsaw. (Marek Antoni Iwaczuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Monday's article in The Times of Israel. The daily stated, among other things, that Karol Nawrocki had "made Holocaust revisionism part of his election campaign."
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