Yad Vashem: Netanyahu, Poland's PM harm historic truth

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum lashed Thursday the “highly problematic wording” of a joint statement published by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart the same morning, which was aimed at patching up a political spat that divided the countries after Poland enacted, before rescinding, a controversial Holocaust Law which criminalized suggesting Poland was complicit in Nazi crimes.

“The existing documentation and decades of historical research yield a totally different picture: the Polish Government-in-Exile, based in London, as well as the Delegatura (the representative organ of this Government in occupied Poland) did not act resolutely on behalf of Poland’s Jewish citizens at any point during the war. Much of the Polish resistance in its various movements not only failed to help Jews, but was also not infrequently actively involved in persecuting them.”