Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says it’s too late to amend his country’s controversial Holocaust law, but says the intention behind it is not to whitewash history.
“The law has already passed the Senate vote, and is now in the hands of President Duda,” Morawiecki says in an interview with Hadashot news.
“But the response from our friends in Israel is serious and so I take that seriously,” he says.
“The real intent of the law is not to prohibit statements about crimes committed by individuals or other things that happened during World War II,” Morawiecki says.
He goes on to say that he “supports research to identify all of the injustices committed during World War II.”
“I also want to invite our friends from Israel to truly understand what happened on Polish soil [at that time] because none of the Jewish families that were saved would be alive if it wasn’t for the help of their polish neighbors,” Morawiecki adds.
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