The new president of Poland, called a “Holocaust revisionist” by a publication in Israel. The Warsaw government protested
Karol Nawrocki (photo: Artur Widak / Nurphoto / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia)
Polish diplomacy announced on Tuesday that it protested in addition to The Times of Israel, which qualified as a “revisionist of the Holocaust” on the new elected president Karol Nawrocki, considered a nationalist politician, AFP reports.
Karol Nawrocki, a formation historian, supported by the Party of Nationalist Party Law and Justice (PIS), obtained 50.89% of the votes, compared to 49.11% for the pro -European Flezaskowski, in the second round of the presidential elections on Sunday.
The Times of Israel used on Monday the term “Holocaust revisionist” in the title of his article dedicated to Nawrocki's victory, accusing him of making revisionism “part of his election campaign.”
In a letter sent to the Israeli publication by the Poland Embassy at Tel Aviv, “we ask that this type of terms are not used, we protest against this,” said Pawel Wronski, spokesman of the Polish Foreign Ministry of the Pro-European government in Warsaw.
“We recognize the editorial right to issue a judgment, but the judgment in question, using precisely this (concrete) term, arouses-especially in Poland-very dangerous associations,” said Pawel Wronski, quoted by the Polish Agency.
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The Times of Israel has especially denounced the criticism made by Karol Nawrocki to historians who investigate the participation of Poles in the crimes against the Jews during World War II.
Seeking to benefit from electoral support from supporters of a small ultra-ultra-Ultra-Ultra-Ukrainian and anti-Semitic party, Nawrocki said-according to the website of this party-that they intend to “defend the good name of Poland and Polish against all odious attacks such as Grabowski, Gross or Engelking”.
Barbara Engelking, the president of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Council, Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa and American historian Jan Tomass Gross were accused in Poland to defamation of the Polish nation, but the courts decided to rank these cases.
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Holder of a doctorate in history, Nawrocki was the director of the Museum dedicated to World War II in Gdansk from 2017 to 2021. From 2021, he runs the Institute of National Memory (IPN), which investigates crimes from the Nazi and communist periods, notes AFP.
