“It was a very good meeting, full of understanding. We did not expect an apology; what we expect is a correction of the post,” Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maciej Wewiór said after the discussion with Israel’s ambassador at the ministry.
The diplomat was summoned following a Yad Vashem post stating that “Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge in order to isolate them from the surrounding population.”
A spokesperson for the Polish Foreign Ministry stressed that such statements, presented without historical context, are misleading.
“We believe a very good reference point is the language used by UNESCO, for example. When discussing those crimes, it refers to Poland under Nazi occupation. That is a very useful point of reference,” Wewiór said.
He also pointed to a “problem of generational change.”
“Today, as those who remember that period pass away, we are left with people who live in a completely different reality,” the spokesperson explained.
He added that Israel’s ambassador received the information provided by the Polish ministry “with understanding.”
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Source: MSZ/PAP/PR24