Stanisław Zalewski, a former member of the Polish underground resistance who turned 100 this year, has fought a long-running legal battle.
Stanisław Zalewski, a former member of the Polish underground resistance who turned 100 this year, has fought a long-running legal battle.
The Auschwitz Museum was among the wide range of Polish officials and institutions to criticise Yad Vashem’s post.
We are an independent, nonprofit media outlet, funded through the support of our readers.
If you appreciate the work we do, please consider helping us to continue and expand it.
Thomas Rose, also said Poland is today “the safest country in Europe for a Jew to walk the streets”.
One letter from a prisoner at Auschwitz to a recipient in the city of Kraków had a starting price of €500.
Michael Smuss passed away, aged 99, at a care home in Israel.
Israel’s embassy in Warsaw also called the display “disgusting behaviour”.
“The millennium-long heritage of Polish Jews forms an intrinsic part of the Polish history and culture,” says the foreign ministry.
“Anti-immigrant hysteria harms Poland and Holocaust denial excludes us from the ranks of civilised nations.”
Yad Vashem says that the inscriptions “falsify history” by trying to absolve Poles of blame for the massacre.
The incoming US ambassador to Poland has also criticised the Times of Israel’s coverage of Nawrocki.
Among the participants in the march were not only elderly Holocaust survivors but also former Hamas hostages.
Filip Mazurczak
Activists have been campaigning for greater recognition of the at least 20,000 victims.
“In Germany, too little is known about the scale of the crimes committed by Germans against millions of Poles,” says the German culture minister.
On 6 December 1942, the Germans killed over 30 Poles, most of them children, in two nearby villages.