"One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied," said a furious Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement today (January 28, 2018) regarding a new law approved by the Polish parliament making it a crime to mention Polish complicity during the Holocaust, according to the Washington Post website.
Polish lawmakers voted on January 26 for a bill that would fine or jail people who blame Poland or Poles for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil during World War II, including the deaths of millions of Jews at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and other camps in Poland.
The bill -- which would jail even foreigners up to three years for using terms such as "Polish extermination camps" -- passed Poland's lower legislature overwhelmingly, and is expected to become a law soon.
Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Center, said in a statement the new law was "liable to blur the historical truths regarding the assistance the Germans received from the Polish population during the Holocaust."
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