Warsaw – Poland’s culture minister has indicated a compromise could be found in the row over an Auschwitz Museum exhibit loaned to Washington’s Holocaust Museum.
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Poland’s minister of culture Bogdan Zdrojewski has said that a barrack from Auschwitz-Birkenau, now on loan at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, should be returned to Poland.
Talking to reporters in Warsaw, he recalled that it had been loaned to the Americans in 1989 for a ten-year period, which was subsequently extended for another ten years.
Mr Zdrojewski added, however, that “the expectations of the American side for the barrack to remain in Washington until the 20th anniversary of the Holocaust Museum in 2013 are also important”.
“Such an option shall be examined,” he said, stressing that it would require a legal modification of the loan agreement.
The minister’s remarks came a day after the Washington Holocaust Museum issued a statement which saying that “due to the barrack’s size and the complexity of its installation, removing and transporting it to Poland presents special difficulties, including potentially damaging the artifact.
Disgusting! These poles were of the most vicious anti-semites out there! they should get a boot in the back every day rather than profiting from their anti-semitism! what did they lose from murdering soo many of us? their goal was to have us out of their country, they succeeded! to murder as many of us as possible, they succeeded. to make money off this abhorrent national behavior, is as despicable as it gets!