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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

historical revisionism

A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
Inside story
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
By Shira Li Bartov
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
By Shira Li Bartov
Ellen Germain, US special envoy on Holocaust issues, listens during a panel before a screening of 'The US and the Holocaust' at the United Nations in New York, February 9, 2023. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)
March 14, 2023, 2:19 am
As Europe celebrates its past, US Holocaust envoy reminds states of their darker side
Ellen Germain is keeping tabs as certain countries quietly attempt to revise their histories, working to ensure that a fair and nuanced vision of the past is maintained
By Ron Kampeas
Lithuania's Foreign Affairs minister Linas Linkevicius answers journalists' questions as he arrives to attend EU foreign ministers emergency talks on Iran at the Europa building in Brussels on January 10, 2020. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
January 16, 2020, 5:28 pm
Poland, Lithuania lock arms to resist Russia’s WWII revisionism
‘We will not let the Kremlin manipulate history so easily and spread lies,’ pledges Vilnius’s top diplomat, as Moscow blames Polish anti-Semitism for war’s outbreak
By LIUDAS DAPKUS and Vanessa Gera
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 2, 2020, 9:41 pm
In row over Holocaust history, Israel and Poland issue joint critique of Ukraine
Ambassadors of the two countries decry the glorification of wartime Ukrainian nationalists ‘who promoted… ethnic cleansing’ of Jews and Poles
By Sam Sokol
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
December 29, 2019, 11:26 pm
Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about outbreak of WWII
Russian president, whose Soviet predecessors invaded Poland in coordination with Nazi Germany, argues that Western collusion with Hitler paved way for the global conflict
By Vanessa Gera
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