The ex-Israeli envoy denies having suggested that the Polish government in exile is killing Jews

Shevah Weiss, former Israeli ambbadador to Poland and Holocaust survivor, denied having suggested that the Polish government in exile would have murdered Jews during the Second World War, a Polish broadcaster reported. Photo: Wikimedia Commons "style =" border-width: 0px; "/> Shevah Weiss Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post quotes Sunday Weiss saying on Israeli Army radio that "There have been cases in which the Polish government in exile itself participated in the murder of Jews."

FMR FM that the Polish government, both in Poland and abroad, does not have the same effect. did not collaborate with the Nazis at a time when most of Europe did.

He was quoted by FM FM as saying that the underground army – saved the Jews and punished those who were doing blackmail or informed Jews who were hiding from the Nazis, but included "those who collaborated with the Germans when it came to Jews."

The Jerusalem Post reported that Weiss had "sharply criticized" a joint statement polish-israel on the historical truth, signed last month by the prime ministers of to end a month-long conflict over an anti-defamation law that embittered bilateral relations. "

The Polish government in exile of the war tried to stop this Nazi activity by trying to sensitize the Western allies to the systematic murder of the Polish Jews. "

He also said that" the expression "Polish concentration / death camps" "

The joint statement came after Poland amended a controversial anti-defamation law a few months later its introduction, removing any fines and even jail sentences for people who accused Poland of being complicit in the Holocaust.

The law, in its original wording, was considered by the Warsaw government as a means of combating the use of the term "Polish death camps" in reference to the German Nazi. Concentration camps in occupied Poland in the Second World War

The United States and Israel had slammed the original law, saying that Poland was striking at freedom of expression.

They have since saluted the changes. 59007] But Holocaust remembrance center Yad Vashem said that the joint document "contains a series of highly problematic statements that violate existing historical knowledge accepted in the field."

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