The Warsaw ghetto
Poland, green light for Holocaust law: "Extermination camps are not defined as Polish"
What does Poland's controversial Holocaust law provide?
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June 27, 2021
High tension between Israel and Poland over a law under discussion in Warsaw which, according to the Jewish state, risks hindering almost all future claims for compensation from Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust: Poland's ambassador to Israel, Marek Magierowski, was summoned today at the foreign ministry, where he was received by the general manager Allon Bar.
"That law risks having negative repercussions in bilateral relations," Bar said according to a statement. According to Israel, it is still possible to block the legislative process and return to the dialogue blocked in 2019.
The rule of discord, currently voted and approved only by the lower house of the Warsaw Parliament, provides for the possibility of punishing, with a fine that can lead to up to three years in prison, those who "publicly and against the facts they attribute to the Polish nation or the Polish state the responsibility or co-responsibility for crimes committed by the German Third Reich or crimes against humanity, against peace and other crimes during the war ". Among other things, the amendment provides for the possibility of bringing before the court even those who use the wording "Polish death camps", referring for example to Auschwitz.