Poland demands correction from Jad Yours: It was Germany who forced the Jews to band

The head of the MFA Radosław Sikorski asked Jad Yours to clarify the entry and indicate that erstwhile Jews were forced to wear a band with Star David, Poland was under German occupation. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum rated the institute's entry as a "false and distorted past news".PAP

The controversial entry of the Israeli institute Jad Ościm caused a sharp reaction of the Polish government. abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski and government spokesperson Adam Szpiek demanded on Sunday a correction of the past concerning the order for the judaic to wear bands with Star David in 1939.

On Sunday on platform X, your venom wrote that «Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge to isolate them from the surrounding population». The Institute added that «On 23 November 1939 Hans Frank, politician of the General Government, issued an order that all Jews aged 10 and older had to wear a white, material 10 cm band on their right arm, marked with the blue Star of David».

Minister Sikorski's reaction

Radosław Sikorski reacted rapidly on the X platform, marking the account of Jad Yours. «Please specify that it was Poland under “German occupation”» - wrote the head of Polish diplomacy.

Government spokesperson Adam Sztrapka stressed that “we cannot let past to be falsified”. «It was not Poland that introduced the law, forcing Jews to wear recognition marks. These regulations were imposed by Nazi Germans, after they attacked and occupied Poland» - wrote Szpieczka. He added that Poles and Polish Jews were victims of the Holocaust, not its authors.

A Sharp Reaction of the Auschwitz Museum

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oświęcim assessed the entry of Jad Oświęcim as a “falsifying and distorting message”. The museum emphasized on platform X that Jad Yourm should be an institution that knows historical facts, which means that it should be “fully aware that Poland was under German business at the time and it was the Germans who introduced and enforced this anti-Semitic law”.

Former Polish Ambassador to Israel and the USA Marek Magierowski called the entry “scandal distortion of history”. «I would anticipate your venom to correct and apologize as any self-respecting institution should. Was the General Governorate Polish? Did Hans Frank?" asked Magierowski.

Voices from social media

Member of Law and Justice Radosław Fogiel wrote under the entry of Jad Yours: «Polish territories were divided between the German and Russian occupations as a consequence of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. Either you don't know the communicative or you deliberately distort it. Remove this entry and apologize».

The service Historia.org.pl accused the institute: «Why don't you compose that Frank was German and Polish lands were German occupation? You are destroying the memory of victims of German crimes».

In the evening of Sunday, Jad Waszem pointed out on platform X that the article under the line of his entry contained information that the command to wear the bands with Star David was issued by the German authorities. Your venom is an Israeli institution established to paper the past of the judaic people during the Holocaust and to commemorate the victims of this period.

Note: This article was created utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI).