A Polish state-run bank says it has funded the publication in international newspapers of a Polish-Israeli government statement that criticizes those who blame Poland for the Holocaust crimes of Nazi Germany.
The statement, published last week, was signed by the Israeli and Polish prime ministers and came just as Poland scrapped potential prison terms for anyone claiming it shares responsibility for the Holocaust.
It stresses Polish wartime heroism and denounces “anti-Polonism” alongside anti-Semitism, which was seen as a diplomatic coup for Poland. But it’s proving a headache for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Wednesday, the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said it contains “grave errors and deceptions.”
PKO BP bank refused Friday to reveal how much it paid to disseminate the statement in U.S, German and Israeli newspapers.
(AP)
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It is hard to find some one today who thinks that the Poles were a good country for the Jews. Most realize that inside the heart of most Poles is the Church’s anti-Semitic message and that fueled the century long pogroms that we endured.
The Poles don’t need to re-write history to improve, they need to take a hard look at the truth……
The Polacks murdered yidden, even after the Germans yms were defeated. They told those coming back from the camps “you should have died” and didn’t help the Warsaw ghetto uprising so that Jews would die. They helped kill Jews during the war and after it. To deny this is to deny history.