Eye Witness Holocaust

One day each nation and citizen of the world will be judged by future generations. Every action and decision made today, good and bad, will eventually come under the scrutiny of a generation that did not participate in its making. Will their interpretations of history be correct or misplaced based on the evidence they are given? Can eye witness accounts or recorded events be denied or rewritten? A new law in Poland is challenging history in all of these forms and defying those who dare accuse any Polish citizen of participating in the Holocaust during World War II. This new law could result in up to 3 years in jail and heavy fines for using the phrase, "Polish death camps", or for making any reference that Polish citizens were complicit with Germany in helping to turn in or kill their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. While it's easy to

However, there is also evidence and eye witness accounts that can attest to the fact that there were Polish citizens who participated in doing horrible things to their Jewish neighbors. To deny any wrong doing is to deny history. A scholar for the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem states that the law, "is trying to prevent education, investigative journalism, interviews and radio discussions about parts of the Polish nation and parts of the Polish people who did terrible things. Certainly it was not the whole Polish nation by any means, but there were people who did terrible things and all that needs to be discussed." The view echoed in this quote is the view shared by most of the world. Allies such as the United States are pushing back against this law, causing the Polish President Andrzej Dudato take another look at the language being used in the