Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday awards a posthumous medal for heroism to three Poles who risked their lives to protect Jewish neighbors during the Nazi Holocaust.
Piotr Kozlowski, charge d’affaires at Poland’s embassy in Israel, speaks at the Jerusalem ceremony without mentioning a diplomatic row over the Polish role in the mass murder of the country’s Jews.
Kozlowski was summoned by Israel’s foreign ministry Sunday after Poland’s right wing-dominated parliament adopted legislation setting fines or up to three years in jail for anyone who accuses the Polish nation or state of complicity with Nazi crimes or refers to Nazi death camps as Polish.
Alicja Mularska, the daughter of the late Polish couple Jan Dziadosz and Sabina Perzyna, receives a medal and certificate during a posthumous ceremony honoring her parents and their son Aleksandr Dziadosz at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
At Tuesday’s ceremony Jan Dziadosz, his wife Sabina and their son Aleksandr are honored as “Righteous Among the Nations,” the title Yad Vashem applies to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
The family sheltered two Jews on their farm near Modliborzyce, a village in southeastern Poland. Both later made their way out of the country, Yad Vashem said.
The family’s medal and certificate are accepted by the couple’s daughter Alicja Mularska.
— AFP
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