Poland was outraged by a video from the profile of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This, as European Pravda writes, reports Polsat News.
On Saturday, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and Holocaust Remembrance Day, a commemorative video appeared on Ursula von der Leyen’s account. In it, various people, including the head of the European Commission herself, remember the Jews who died in the camps during the Second World War.
“Today, the number of anti-Semitic acts is growing alarmingly. Our duty is to protect and ensure a dignified life for the Jews of Europe,” von der Leyen wrote.
Algirdas Savitzkis.
Jana Neumannova.
Tekla Bruchsaler.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, #WeRemember the victims and say their names out loud.
Today, antisemitic acts are on the rise, alarmingly.
It is our duty to protect and make Jewish life thrive in Europe. pic.twitter.com/KwTzX2mb1C
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 27, 2024
The people who appear in the film write the victims’ names by hand and then hold up the cards and say them out loud. The images are accompanied by subtitles with the identities of those killed, their dates of birth and death, and the places where they occurred. However, the geographical details that are used have caused controversy.
The authors of the video did not point out that many countries were occupied during the Second World War. Thus, they, among other things, assumed that the Auschwitz camp was Polish, indicating “Poland” as its location. They did not add that the site was under Nazi German control.
They did the same with other countries. For example, in the case of Mina Warszawczyk, a Lithuanian Jewish woman who died in Kaunas in 1941, it was not emphasized that her country was first annexed by the USSR and then occupied for three years by the Third Reich. The video also mentions Ukraine, Croatia and Greece.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum responded to the video of the head of the EC. “The concentration death camp was located in the occupied part of Polish territory, which was annexed directly by Nazi Germany in October 1939. Therefore, it is correct to say that the camp was located in the territory of occupied Poland.” – the institution suggested in a Twitter note (X).
There was also outrage on the Polish political scene. “When writing about the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz, it should be noted that it was created during the German occupation. Information on the European Commission’s social networks will be clarified, but it is a pity that the Polish European Commissioner did not present the Polish point of view in advance,” said Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski .
Jacek Severa, head of the National Security Bureau, approached Ursula von der Leyen directly.
“Yes, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember that during World War II, in many European countries under German occupation, there were German concentration camps in which millions of Jews were killed. At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise, we must cherish the memory about the victims and roots of evil in order to prevent it in the future,” he wrote.
“The correct term should be ‘German Nazi death camp in occupied Poland’ because using the full, accurate term will help promote a historically accurate narrative and correctly identify Germany as solely responsible for the atrocities of the death camps during World War II,” said Arkadiusz Mularczyk. Law and Justice”), who was responsible for preparing a report on Poland’s military losses during his party’s rule.
Let us recall that during the reign of the Law and Justice party in Poland criminalized the term “Polish death camps”.
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2024-01-28 12:57:13
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