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February 2, 2018

How to Respond to Poland’s New Law Censoring Discussion of the Holocaust

Jews and Poles should try to put the past behind them.

A law recently passed by the Polish parliament declares it illegal to use the phrase “Polish death camps” to refer to the factories of mass-murder built by Germany on Polish soil during World War II. More ominously, the law also states that “whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich . . . shall be subject to a fine or a penalty of imprisonment of up to three years.” While calling the law “foolish,” Jonathan Tobin also urges Jews to be circumspect in their response:

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February 2, 2018

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  3. How to Respond to Poland’s New Law Censoring Discussion of the Holocaust

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