US EditionPoland Summons Israeli Ambassador over Yad Vashem Holocaust Post
Poland demands clearer wording from Yad Vashem after a post implied Polish responsibility for Holocaust-era Jewish badge orders imposed by Nazi Germany.
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Poland blasts Yad Vashem over Holocaust post, summons Israeli ambassador
Warsaw demands answers after museum wrote on X that Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear identifying armbands; Polish officials insist order issued by German occupiers; Yad Vashem later posted a clarification
Poland summons Israeli ambassador over Yad Vashem Holocaust post
Yad Vashem wrote that Poland was 'the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge to isolate them,' sparking criticism from Poland's foreign minister. The Auschwitz Memorial tied Yad Vashem's tweet to its plan to open a branch in Germany
A message from the Israeli memorial Yad Yashem to the Jewish Star has provided criticism by the Polish government. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Israeli ambassador would be summoned. The article misled and had not been corrected, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski criticized. On Sunday, the team of the memorial had written on Platform X: "Poland was the first country in which Jews were forced to wear a specific badge to isol…
Poland fumes over Israeli Holocaust Museum social media post
In 2018, Poland enacted legislation making it a criminal offense to attribute Nazi crimes to the Polish nation. By Vered Weiss, World Israel News Poland summoned Israel’s ambassador on Monday in objection to a social media post by Yad Vashem, saying it failed to clarify that Nazi German occupiers — not Polish authorities — forced Jews to wear identifying badges during World War II. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the message, published a…
Poland's Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Warsaw, Yaakov Finkelstein, after a message published on social networks by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in which they mention that Poland was the first country in which the Jews were forced to wear a bracelet with the Star of David.
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