Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced on Monday that he had summoned the Israeli ambassador to Poland in connection with the fact that According to him, the Jerusalem Institute Yad Vashem did not correct a misleading article about Poland and the history of the Holocaust. This is reported by the Warsaw correspondent TASR, according to the PAP agency.
Jad Vashem said on the X platform on Sunday that “Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinguishing mark.” The measure was ordered in November 1939 by Hans Frank, a representative of Nazi Germany, which occupied Poland at the time. On Sunday, Sikorski asked Yad Vashem to specify that the said measure was taken during the German occupation of Poland. Since the contribution was not adjusted, the minister announced on Monday afternoon, that you summoned the ambassador of Israel.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk marked the statement of the Yad Vashem Institute as deceptive and contrary to history. According to him, this is a compromise of the institute, which, according to him, should be more careful and responsible in the interpretation of historical facts.
Criticism of Jad Vashem was also expressed Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which called the post false and distorting history. According to the museum, the institution should know that Poland was then under German occupation, and it was the Germans who issued and enforced this anti-Jewish decree. The Institute of the Memory of the Nation reacted similarly, according to which ignorance or ignoring of historical facts on the part of Yad Vashem is not worthy of such an institution.
