STATEMENT CONCERNING THE RECTIFICATION ON THE DZIEJE.PL PORTAL
The Kulski Foundation announces that it has prevailed in a court case seeking a correction under Polish press law of statements made by historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe in an interview conducted by Polish Press Agency editor Igor Rakowski-Kłos (PAP) and published on the Dzieje.pl portal, which is affiliated with the Polish Press Agency.
On January 28, 2026, historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, author of Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust, a book about the involvement of Polish mayors in the persecution of Jews during the Second World War, gave an interview to PAP that was published on the Dzieje.pl portal. The interview included harmful and factually unsupported accusations against Julian Spitosław Kulski, the Foundation’s Patron and prewar vice mayor of Warsaw, who, during the German occupation, served as Warsaw’s acting (commissioner) mayor.
In a final judgment dated June 10, 2026, the Warsaw Regional Court ordered the publication of a correction under Polish press law, worded as follows:
“CORRECTION
The publication entitled “Rossoliński-Liebe: Polish Mayors Were an Important Group of Officials in the General Government,” an interview with the author named above, published on the Dzieje.pl portal on January 28, 2026, contains the following false statements concerning Julian Spitosław Kulski (hereinafter “J. S. Kulski”):
1) it is not true that J. S. Kulski persecuted Jews or benefited from the persecution of Jews;
2) it is not true that J. S. Kulski took over Jewish property or used Jews for cheap labor;
3) it is not true that J. S. Kulski actively helped create the ghetto and sought to reduce its area;
4) it is not true that J. S. Kulski was involved in or contributed to the murder of Jews;
5) it is not true that J. S. Kulski marked Jews, controlled their bank accounts, collected fees for water, electricity, and gas from residents of the ghetto, registered them upon their arrival in the city, or deloused and vaccinated them, or that he performed many other acts before they were murdered;
6) it is not true that J. S. Kulski resettled Jews from villages and small towns to larger ghettos;
7) it is not true that J. S. Kulski ever belonged to the Camp of National Unity;
8) it is not true that J. S. Kulski bears joint responsibility for the Holocaust.
The Kulski Foundation for Polish-American Relations”
Link to the published correction:
https://dzieje.pl/wywiad/rossolinski-liebe-polscy-burmistrzowie-byli-wazna-grupa-urzednikow-w-generalnym
Statement available for download as a PDF: