The Education Ministry’s director-general Shmuel Abuav says Israel will not be halting student trips to Poland as a result of the controversial Holocaust complicity legislation.
But Abuav, speaking to Hadashot news, defiantly stresses that “the guides will tell the truth as it happened.”
He points to new curricula drafted by the ministry in response to the Polish bill, which examines the murders of over 2,000 Jews by Poles before and after World War II.
“No law will silence the instructors and guides, or the story we must tell the younger generation,” says Abuav.
Some 40,000 Israeli students will visit Poland this year for purposes of Holocaust commemoration, he says.
An Israeli delegation seen visiting the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, April 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
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