US EditionPolish prosecutors investigate lawmaker for comments on Auschwitz
POLAND, JUL 10 – Grzegorz Braun faces seven sets of charges including Holocaust denial, antisemitic remarks, and vandalism after denying Auschwitz gas chambers and making inflammatory statements during his presidential campaign.
- Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun for denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and accusing Jews of ritual murder of Christians.
- Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
- Piotr CywiDski, director of the Auschwitz Museum, condemned Braun's comments as a conscious lie, an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred, and a violation of the law.
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Polish ultranationalists place signs blaming Jews for pogrom at memorial site
On the 84th anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom – where hundreds of Jews were burnt to death in a barn by their Polish neighbors – signs appeared at the site accusing Jews of collaborating with the Nazis. Far-right politicians continue to falsely claim that Germans were responsible for the massacre
The European Parliament's extreme right-wing opposition Grzegorz Braun, which was ranked fourth in the last presidential election, described the Nazi wave of extinction from Auschwitz and its gas chambers as "false".
AJC calls defacing of Jewish pogrom memorial ‘a test for Poland’s democracy’
The American Jewish Committee called for a “swift political response” following the raising of plaques at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland which falsely accuse Jews of being responsible for Soviets killing Poles during the pogrom that occurred there 84 years ago this week. At least 340 Jews were burned alive by their Polish neighbors in the massacre at Jedwabne on July 10, 1941. Marking the anniversary of the attack on Thursday, right-wing a…
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