Ambasador Tom Rose @USAmbPoland
rozpoczął
dialog, który
jak sam
powiedział:
"mam nadzieję, przyczyni się do skorygowania
bardzo
niesprawiedliwej
narracji
historycznej
na temat
Polski".
New US ambassador condemns
“grotesque
falsehood”
that Poles are
responsible
for Holocaust
The new US ambassador to Poland,
Thomas Rose,
has criticised
those who
blame Poles
for the
Holocaust,
calling it a
“blood libel”
against a
nation that
was a victim
of the war. He
said that such
“historically
false and
morally
scandalous”
claims have
long “poisoned
relations
between Jews
and Poles”.
Rose, who is
himself
Jewish, also
said that
Poland is
today “the
safest country
in Europe for
a Jew to walk
the streets”.
“For too long,
this nation
has been
burdened with
the moral
stain that was
never its own,
the persistent
belief that
Poland shares
guilt for the
barbaric
crimes
committed
against it,”
said Rose, who
took up his
post as
ambassador
this month.
“It’s a
grotesque
falsehood and
the equivalent
of a blood
libel against
the Polish
people and
Polish
nation,” added
the
ambassador,
who was
speaking at a
conference on
antisemitism
in Warsaw
organised by
the
International
Association of
Jewish Lawyers
and Jurists.
“Poland
created the
only
government-sponsored
underground
institution in
all of
occupied
Europe devoted
solely to
saving Jews,”
said Rose,
referring to
Żegota, a body
set up in 1942
to help Jews.
It is believed
to have saved
thousands,
perhaps tens
of thousands.
The ambassador
also noted
that Poland
was the only
place in
German-occupied
Europe where
any kind of
aid to Jews
was punishable
with the
execution of
the person and
their entire
family.
“Thousands of
Poles died
saving Jews,”
said Rose. “Of
course it
wasn’t enough,
didn’t stop
the slaughter,
but they
proved, these
heroic Poles
proved, that
even in their
country’s
bleakest
night,
multitudes of
Poles chose
conscience
over fear and
humanity over
terror.”
The ambassador
noted,
however, that
Poles have
often been
blamed “for a
genocide
perpetrated by
others on its
soil”, which
has “poisoned
relations
between Jews
and Poles,
between Israel
and Poland,
and between
the United
States and
Poland for
decades”.
Such
accusations
are
“historically
false and
morally
scandalous”,
declared Rose,
who also noted
that “no
country
outside Israel
has done more
to commemorate
and sacralize
the Shoah than
Poland –
certainly not
Germany, which
committed the
crimes, nor
Russia, which
suppressed
them”.
He also noted
that the
relationship
between Poles
and Jews
stretches far
beyond the
Second World
War. “This was
our home for
600 years. It
was the centre
of the Jewish
world,” said
Rose. Poland
once had the
world’s
largest Jewish
population.
The
ambassador, a
practising Jew
who wears a
skullcap, said
that Poland
today “is the
safest country
in Europe for
a Jew to walk
the streets”.
Całość
wypowiedzi
ambasadora
Rose dostępna
jest na filmie
poniżej.
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