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- Polish president boycotts Holocaust remembrance in Israel - Mary January 7, 2020, 9:48 pm
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Posted by Mary
on January 7, 2020, 9:48 pm
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president said Tuesday that he won’t attend a commemoration in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp because he was not asked to speak at the forum along with world leaders who include the presidents of Russia and Germany. President Andrzej Duda was not among the foreign dignitaries named as speakers for the Jan. 23 World Holocaust Forum in media releases sent out Tuesday for the event at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Russian President Vladimir Putin and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose countries invaded Poland at the start of World War II, are listed along with French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prince Charles. Poland’s prime minister and foreign diplomats have voiced concerns about recent remarks by Putin and some Russian commentators that imply that Poland was partly responsible for the war’s outbreak in 1939. Duda called those comments a “sort of post-Stalinist revisionism” that tries to shift blame to Poland, which was the first country victimized by Nazi Germany and lost some 6 million citizens during World War II. Auschwitz was located in Nazi-occupied Poland. /.. https://apnews.com/7126a0b5b7e71e2824f2eca542484237 |
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