Those were German death camps. The issue is the legitimate and essential freedom to talk about the involvement of Poles in the murder of Jews without fear or threat of penalization. Simple.”And Marek Magierowski, undersecretary of state in Poland’s foreign ministry, explained his country’s position in a series of tweets: “The new law is not aimed at curtailing historical research or denying the complicity of some Polish citizens in the Holocaust. It’s about combating historical distortions,” he wrote. “Polish nation was not responsible for the Holocaust.It was the German invaders who brought that calamity upon the Jewish people. We will never forget the suffering of the European Jews, but it is our utmost obligation to also defend our good name” Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, the son of former justice minister Tommy Lapid, who was a Holocaust Survivor, has led the angry chorus locally against the law and continued to do so on Monday, slamming the government for agreeing to enter into talks with Poland about the matter.You do not enter negotiations about the memory of those killed,” Lapid said. “This law simply has to be buried in the Polish ground soaked with Jewish blood. Most of the extermination camps were in Poland, and not by accident. Polish citizens helped the Nazi machine. They turned in Jews, they killed Jews.”Dear Polish followers - the issue is NOT the death camps . Of course they were not Polish. Those were German death camps . The issue is the legitimate and essential freedom to talk about the involvement of Poles in the murder of Jews without fear or threat of penalisation.Simple.
— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) January 29, 2018
Polish president says Poles 'as a nation' did not participate in Holocaust
“I will never agree, that we as a nation, Poland as a nation, be slandered by untrue historical ‘truths’ and by absolutely false accusations," President Duda said.
