Hundreds of people participated in the protest on Sunday in Foley Square and some employed antisemitic rhetoric.
Wpolie also have stories of Polish rescuers who faced retribution, not from the Germans, but from fellow Poles, when their help to Jews on the run came to light, as in the three stories that follow.
I was there for the first time eight years ago with my wife and two children. I seldom have a knot in my throat, but that was the moment.
Stola criticized a controversial law passed last year in Poland that makes it illegal to blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes.
Israel and Poland have strong diplomatic ties and Warsaw often stands in solidarity with the Jewish state at the United Nations.
Session at Limmud FSU in Warsaw addresses crisis with Jewish community.
The report said many Jews preferred to flee, even to Germany, after the war.
The answer to the ‘Polish Holocaust Bill,’ is not inflammatory, hateful rhetoric such as this but, rather, discussion and dialogue based on facts,” said the executive director of JCC Krakow.
Antisemitism has resurfaced amid the debate over a bill that would criminalize suggesting complicity on the part of the Polish nation or state in Nazi Germany's crimes.
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