Yesterday, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, reignited the feud between Israel and Poland over the involvement of sovereign Poland in the Jewish genocide, a point of contention between the two countries for years now.
“Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge in order to isolate them from the surrounding population. #OTD 23 November 1939 Hans Frank, the governor of the Generalgouvernement issued an order that all Jews aged 10 and above must wear a white cloth armband 10 cm wide marked with a blue Star of David on their right arm,” the Israeli institute posted.
In response, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski replied in brief: “Please specify that it was ‚German-occupied’ Poland, @yadvashem.”
Yad Vashem’s also got tagged with a community note, clarifying that Hans Frank was German, not Polish. “Hans Frank is a German war criminal sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (1946).”
“Poland was the first victim of the Second World War, not a perpetrator of crimes. The Holocaust was a German crime – a fact that is not open to negotiation or “reinterpretation.” @yadvashem should stand guard over the truth, not obscure it. And today, in the German Embassy, they are surely opening champagne,” posted Polish MEP (ECR) Arkadiusz Mularczyk.
Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, formerly headed up by President Karol Nawrocki, also waded in, calling Yad Vashem’s post “unacceptable.”
An unacceptable statement by the Yad Vashem Institute.
A lack of knowledge about the German regulations imposed on Polish society enslaved by the German Reich (including Jews), or ignoring them, is unbecoming of institutions such as Yad Vashem.
1. It was Germany that invaded… https://t.co/yCRW7Id2k2 pic.twitter.com/UdvASOW5Un
— Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) November 23, 2025
“A lack of knowledge about the German regulations imposed on Polish society enslaved by the German Reich (including Jews), or ignoring them, is unbecoming of institutions such as Yad Vashem,” they posted.
After a brief history lesson in four points, highlighting the massive aid provided to Jews by Poles and the fact that helping Jews was punishable by death, the Institute of National Remembrance closed by clarifying who exactly was in charge during the anti-Jewish policies in Poland: Germans. “
“The obligation to wear the Star of David, various forms of identification, and the penalties for failing to comply were elements of German racial policy, implemented by the administrative and terror apparatus created by Germany.”
An unacceptable statement by the Yad Vashem Institute.
A lack of knowledge about the German regulations imposed on Polish society enslaved by the German Reich (including Jews), or ignoring them, is unbecoming of institutions such as Yad Vashem.
1. It was Germany that invaded… https://t.co/yCRW7Id2k2 pic.twitter.com/UdvASOW5Un
— Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) November 23, 2025
This is not the first time Poland has had to respond to Israeli inaccuracies. In just two examples, former PM Morawiecki slammed historian Barbara Engelking for claiming that Poles were co-responsible for the Holocaust back in 2023.
And in 2020, Yad Vashem had to apologize for not mentioning the crimes of the Soviet Union during the Second World War during the World Holocaust Forum, such as the mass execution of 20,000 Polish officers during the Katyn massacre.
The institute then also refused a speaking slot to Poland, despite allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to speak at the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz, leading then President Duda to not attend.
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