Auschwitz-Birkenau & Its Polish Roots
There is a controversy still brewing regarding the WWII Auschwitz concentration camp which was located in Poland. Over 1 million Jews were killed there. As such, it will remain forever a name to be loathed in Jewish minds for generations to come. Now, nearly 75 years after its liberation by Soviet forces, Polish authorities are attempting to claim the camp was a German one merely located on Polish soil and to prove its point, its Parliament passed legislation that rejects the phrase, “Polish death camps” to describe Auschwitz and would make it illegal to describe Nazi death camps as “Polish.” They went so far as to legalizing fines and a maximum prison sentence of up to three years for anyone who refers to deaths camps built and functioning on Polish soil as being Polish. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will have none of that in his statement, “The law is baseless. I strongly oppose it. One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied.” We agree.