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Polish Jewish leaders angered by Katz comments, fear harm to their community
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe leaders of Poland’s Jewish community express anger, saying they were offended by the words of newly appointed acting foreign minister Israel Katz, who quoted late prime minister Yitzhak Shamir who once said Poles “suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”
Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, and Monika Krawczyk, chair of the board of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, write in an open letter that Katz’s words harmed them as Jews living in Poland.
“It is a fact that some Poles participated either actively or passively in murderous acts by Nazis against the Jews, but we remember also that the Polish government did not collaborate officially with the Third Reich,” Schudrich and Krawczyk write.
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