Dozens of Israeli Holocaust survivors demonstrated outside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv yesterday to protest a new law in Poland that outlaws blaming Poland for Nazi crimes, where nearly six million Jews were killed at extermination camps during World War II, the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) website reports today (February 9, 2018).
The survivors carried signs in Hebrew and Polish saying "No law will erase history," "The Polish law spits in the Israeli people's face," and "I still have nightmares because of what the Poles did."
Several of the survivors stood in front of the embassy and told their personal stories of suffering caused by the Poles during the Holocaust.
Polish President Andrzej Duda signed the bill into law on February 6 after both houses of parliament passed it. Despite proof that Poles played a major role in assisting Nazi Germans in killing millions of Jews in Poland during World War II, the new law denies any such role by Poles, and sentences anyone who accuses Poland to up to three years in jail.
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