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Feliks Tych

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “polish-jewish historian and a professor”. Today it says “polish historian and educator”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Facing the Nazi genocide (2004)”. It now reads “Polish historian and educator Facing the Nazi genocide (2004)”.
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Polish historian and educator Facing the Nazi genocide (2004) Feliks Tych (31 July 1929, Warsaw , Poland – 16 February 2015, Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish historian and educator. From 1995 to 2006, he was Director of the Jewish Historical Institute ( Żydowski Instytut Historyczny ), served as member of the Council of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences , and was a member of the editors committee of the Polish Biographical Dictionary . Following him, Polish historian Feliks Tych, a Holocaust survivor, called on former Nazi-occupied states – from France and Holland to Poland, ... "Chronist des Grauens" (in German). juedische-allgemeine.de. 17 February 2015.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “polish-jewish historian and a professor”. Today it says “polish historian and educator”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Facing the Nazi genocide (2004)”. It now reads “Polish historian and educator Facing the Nazi genocide (2004)”. Read the current article and compare.
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polish-jewish historian and a professor

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polish historian and educator

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