Polish lawmakers back Holocaust bill, drawing Israeli outrage, US concern
Friday, 2 February 2018 () Polish lawmakers approved a bill yesterday (1 February) that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".
In Poland, special ceremonies have been held to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Saturday marked exactly 73 years after the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland. About 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were killed at the Nazi death camp which has became...
Friday, 2 February 2018 ()
