The chief historian of Yad Vashem: We can live with a joint Israeli-Polish position on the Holocaust law – Israel News

Yad Vashem's chief historian said that she "can live with" the joint statement issued by Poland and Israel regarding the responsibility of the Polish nation for crimes committed against Jews during the war. # 39; Holocaust.

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Yad Vashem historians said in a statement that the Israeli-Polish declaration contained a number of historical errors and that it paved the way for legal battles against historians and other Holocaust scholars – even if these are no more than criminals. procedure. Professor Dina Porat, Yad Vashem's chief historian whom Netanyahu said he "had accompanied the process of writing the statement," did not sign Yad Vashem's statement.
On Sunday, Porat told the Israeli media: "Would it have been better not to have a joint statement?" Perhaps there was a possibility to fix, there are things that are definitely worth the worth repairing. "

The statement of Yad Vashem stressed that this is the official and official position of the institution and its scholars, and in his interview, Porat said that she advised the government so informal. The comments seem to contradict Netanyahu, who thanked "the historian Yad Vashem" for his consultation.