Poland – Over 89,000 have now signed the petition in protest at the repeated use by some media outlets in US of the term “Polish concentration camps” when describing Auschwitz, Treblinka or other Nazi German camps in WW II occupied Poland.
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Poland’s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Oscar-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Penderecki, WW II Zoska battalion leader Mieczyslaw Madejski and Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, the Ambassador of Poland to Israel have joined Lech Walesa, Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich and many others on the petition which at the time of writing stretched to 350 pages.
Yesterday, another protest was staged outside the New York HQ of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, which printed two articles in May mentioning “Polish Concentration camps”.
The protestors complain that despite numerous complaints no apology has been forthcoming.
“These phrases are Holocaust revisionism that desecrate the memories of six million Jews from 27 countries who were murdered by Nazi Germany,” writes the instigator of the petition, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists and president of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Alex Storozynski.
We will never forget the dark side of the poles and their part of helping germany in the destruction of the jews in WWII. Not even 6,000,000 signatures will cover for them in their part of the deaths of 6 Million jews.
This is a good initiative. Most media already learned a lesson. JPost or Haaretz call the camps “Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland”. New York Times already apologized for the expression so only WSJ remains this time.
It is especially revolting when German newspapers use the phrase (it happens). Though for them one can at least understand the underlying motives…
I’m glad to see that some prominent Jewish people signed the petition (like Rabbi Schudrich or David Harris from AJC). Thank you!
My Bubeh (who survived a “Polish camp”) always told me that the Polish people hated us as much as the Germans did and that it was no coincidence that the most notorious camps were in Poland.
They are tarnishing the efforts of modern Poland to put the tragic events of WW II behind them. Just say “Nazi” and everyone will know what you are referring to rather than painting the Poles with the same negative image.
Let’s not be too harsh on the fine people of Poland. After all, it was their treatment of the Jews in the early 20th century that inspired my grandparents to emigrate to America. The other great-aunts and uncles that stayed behind were did not survive the Nazis. You could even say that I owe them my very survival and existence.
they like to deny it
The Ukranians were horrible. The Lithuanians were horrible. The Poles were horrible. There were some exceptions, but in general these are real Jew haters with blood lust.
To: No. 7-Enlightened Yid- You don’t know what you are talking about. In fact, the Nazis executed non-Jews for hiding Jews, in all of the countries which they occupied, including Holland, Italy, Belgium, and France. While there were righteous Poles who saved Jews, there were other Poles who were only too eager to inform the Nazis, where Jews were hidiong. Even when Jews escaped from Sobibor and Treblinka, they were either killed by local Poles, or otherwise treated with indifference or hostility.
they were concentration camps they were in poland and polish police help round up the jews sorry they are polish concentration camps end of discussion
#7 enlightened or ignorant of the facts i wouuld say ignorant of the facts while making schendlers list in poland the producers wife a non jew by the way had to leave because of the anti semitic comments the polish actors were making and was flown in only for her scenes.
enlightened read a book
While there were a number of people who did save Jews, the vast majority were either willful collaborators or bystanders who denied what was going on. My parents were survivors. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins were victims. Not for one second do I want the world to think that the “righteous among the nations’ were the norm. My grandmother was handed over to the Nazis for 5 kilo of sugar by a Ukrainian.