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Jews move their belongings into the Kovno Ghetto. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin)

Lithuania parliament drafts bill absolving nation, leaders from Holocaust crimes

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A Lithuanian parliament committee is drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders as participating in the Holocaust, a lawmaker working on the bill said last month at a conference. “The Lithuanian state did not participate...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 24, 2018. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL

Facing backlash to errors in amended Polish Holocaust law, Netanyahu to ‘speak up’

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the ongoing controversy over his recent joint statement with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on an amendment to Poland’s controversial Holocaust law. The law, which prohibits accusing Poland of...
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish-Jewish relations step back from the brink

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Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras. No longer will a historian or journalist or any member...
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‘I was 16 when I was taken to the cursed Auschwitz death camp on...

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Revoking the terrible clauses in Poland’s controversial Holocaust law came too late. I’m happy to know our voices were heard, and that our protests against this unjust law made a difference. We are no longer...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Poland backtracks on controversial Holocaust law, ends criminal penalties

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Following enormous international outcry, including from Israel and Jewish groups, Poland has decided to remove the criminal provisions of its controversial Holocaust speech law. The law first proposed earlier this year had sought criminal penalties...
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

1946 State Department report suggests Poles persecuted Jews ‘vigorously’ during the Holocaust

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In a bid to end the contentious debate surrounding Poland’s controversial Holocaust law, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released a declassified report on Thursday highlighting Polish complicity in persecuting Jews during the Holocaust. The U.S. State...

Poland denies freezing implementation of controversial Holocaust law

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Despite statements by Israeli Foreign Ministry officials to the contrary, Polish officials say they are not planning to freeze implementation of Poland’s controversial “Holocaust law” as a result of Israeli pressure. The legislation makes it illegal to accuse the Polish nation...

Simon Wiesenthal Center Considers Travel Advisory For Poland

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In wake of the controversial new Holocaust Law in Poland and the anti-Semitism it has unleashed that has left the Jewish community shaken, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is considering issuing a Travel Advisory...

From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’: A change in common parlance doesn’t change the facts

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I interviewed Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister of Poland, during his September visit to New York. The public-relations maven who arranged the meeting pitched Morawiecki—then still deputy prime minister—as a rising star anxious to...