NU, reporting on the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jewish children from the Nazi SS-run camp in Vught in the Netherlands during World War II, wrote on its Facebook page that they had been transferred to a "Polish extermination camp" ("Pools vernietigingskamp" in Dutch).
In an interview with Polish state news agency PAP, the Polish ambassador to the Hague, Margareta Kassangana, said the embassy would "intervene" in the matter.
NU is a leading news website in the Netherlands. On Sunday, the outlet reported extensively on the anniversary of the transfer of hundreds of Jewish children from the camp in Vught, which was run by the German SS during World War II.
An extensive article on the website said that the children had been deported to a "Nazi camp in Poland."
Meanwhile, on the portal's Facebook profile, a photo of a document from that period was published with the caption: "Nearly 1,300 Jewish children were deported from the Vught camp to a Polish extermination camp."
In the comments sections under the post, a Dutch reader slammed the phrase: "NU should change the text. This was a German extermination camp in occupied Polish territory."
There was no immediate reply from NU after the PAP news agency inquired about the error.
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Source: PAP