President tells Andrzej Duda that Nazi Germany had assistance from across Europe, which ‘demands acceptance of responsibility’ by relevant parties; invites him to Jerusalem.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several stories about Ukrainians who saved Jews during World War II, and about his own family that suffered from the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem says Volodymyr Zelensky’s gesture is ‘puzzling,’ since museum has made efforts to enable those who lived through Nazi genocide to attend international ceremony.
Morawiecki says Red Army failed to take opportunity to liberate Auschwitz in 1944; Polish president says won’t meet Katz until he apologizes for ‘suckling anti-Semitism’ comments.
Poland passed a controversial Holocaust law last year that drew sharp international criticism and damaged its relations with Israel, United States and Jewish groups around the world.
Artur Hofman, chairman of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland, defended the decision of President Andrzej Duda to skip a major Holocaust memorial event in Jerusalem.
''It is obvious that the scenario in which Putin is the keynote speaker, the main guest, and the fact Yad Vashem offers him the possibility of continuing his insulting and deceitful claims about the course and the origins of World War II is unacceptable for us,'' the presidential aide said.