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The ‘Brown Book’, on over 200 pages, describes racist and xenophobic assaults, hate speech, acts of discrimination, desecration of cemeteries and monuments commemorating the Holocaust, nationalist demonstrations, and racist slogans and symbols displayed at stadiums. It also documents anti-Ukrainian propaganda that echoes Putin’s narrative and fuels hostility towards refugees. 

The new report also covers statements denying the historical truth of the Holocaust made by Member of the European Parliament Grzegorz Braun and his associates from the far-right party Confederation of the Polish Crown, including his shocking claim, ‘Unfortunately, Auschwitz with its gas chambers is fake’. The European Parliament has lifted Braun’s parliamentary immunity on six occasions. Legal proceedings against him for hate speech and violent hate crime attacks are currently underway in Poland. 

‘Braun is going ever further in spreading antisemitic hatred, and others are following his example. Years of impunity have emboldened him. The far right is turning the world of values upside down and denying Nazi crimes. That is why we must continue to remind people of the consequences of fascism’, says Dr Anna Tatar, co-author of the ‘Brown Book’.

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association is an independent anti-racist organisation established in 1996. For many years, it has maintained the ‘Brown Book’, a record of incidents of racism and related forms of intolerance. The initiative was launched by the Association’s founder, Marcin Kornak, who had served as its editor for many years until his death in 2014. From 1 September 2025 to 15 November 2026, the Brown Book project has been supported by the Ludwika and Henryk Wujec Civic Fund. 

Examples of incidents documented in the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association’s ‘Brown Book’: 

KRAKOW. On 7 November 2026, Michal O. carried out a terrorist attack in the Main Market Square, killing six people and injuring 16. Minister of the Interior and Administration Marcin Kierwinski stated that ‘the perpetrator held very, very radical views […]. Everything indicates that he was fascinated by far-right ideologies’. 

SOSNOWIEC. On 5 October 2026, the city’s mayor Arkadiusz Checinski reported that someone had completely destroyed a monument commemorating Jews murdered during the World War II. 

WROCLAW. On 19 August 2026, a taxi driver who was a Belarusian citizen was attacked by a passenger for xenophobic reasons while on a fare. When the attacker heard the driver’s Eastern European accent, he hurled nationality-based insults at him. He also hit the driver on the head with a glass bottle and fled the car. 

BIELSKO-BIALA. On 14 July 2026, near one of the shopping centres, two men assaulted a Bangladeshi national: as he was walking past, they pounced on him, punching and kicking him. Witnesses to the attack came to his defence: one of them called the police. Even in the officers’ presence the attackers continued to try to assault the Bangladeshi man. The police subdued one of the attackers and apprehended the other, who had tried to flee. 

PRZASNYSZ. On 19 February 2026, two Ukrainian citizens were brutally attacked based on their nationality by two aggressors, Mateusz P. and Sebastian S. The perpetrators entered the property where the victims lived and attacked them with a machete. A Polish man living with the Ukrainians came to their defence, helping to pull one of the injured men into the building and slamming the door shut, preventing the attackers from continuing to use violence. 

SZCZECIN. On the night of 16-17 February 2026, two attackers brutally assaulted and maimed a 15-year-old boy from Ukraine. According to the investigators, the perpetrators sprayed the teenager with an irritant and then punched and kicked him repeatedly, including in the head. The older attacker struck him with a machete. As a result of the attack, the little toe on his right foot had to be amputated and the second toe partially amputated.  

BIELSKO-BIALA. On 21 October 2025, a passenger on a city bus attacked a 12-year-old dark-skinned boy. He shouted racist abuse at him and spat on him. 

STAROGARD GDANSKI. On 19 July 2025, outside a restaurant, two men attacked a young Tunisian man. They shouted racist insults and threats, and one of them threw a pack of bottled water at him, hitting his head. 

SZCZECIN. On 12 July 2025, in front of the Galaxy shopping centre, two residents brutally attacked a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine. They shouted, ‘F*ck Ukrainians, they won’t live off our taxes!’ and beat him with fists and kicked him until he lost consciousness. An ambulance took the boy to the hospital. 

RACIBORZ. On 11 May 2025, a 36-year-old resident of Raciborz County attacked an Egyptian man. An officer from the Raciborz County Police Headquarters reported, ‘The Egyptian citizen was walking with his wife and two children when he suddenly heard insults directed at him based on his skin colour. When he challenged the attacker, the latter became even more vulgar and then struck the man’.  

OPOLE. On 13 April 2025, during a football match between Odra Opole and Wisla Krakow, Fabian O. attacked three dark-skinned Odra fans. One of the victims was Lukas Klemenz, a former player for both clubs. He had come to the match with his eight-year-old son, a friend, and his sister-in-law. The assailant shouted the racial slur ‘n_ggers’ at both men, spat on them, and struck Klemenz’s friend on the back of the head. He also struck another Black fan in the face, shouting at him, ‘Out, you f_cker!’ 

KOSZALIN. On 19 January 2025, three customers attacked the owner of a restaurant and shouted xenophobic insults at him. They beat him all over his body, and one of the attackers stabbed him with a knife. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, ‘the second man made criminal threats against the owner of the restaurant because of his nationality’. 

‘Brown Book 2025-2026’ and 2024 supplement (full version available as a PDF): 
https://www.nigdywiecej.org//docstation/com_docstation/172/brown_book_2025_2026.pdf  

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www.NeverAgainAssociation.org
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