Overview
- Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski summoned Ambassador Yaakov Finkelstein after Yad Vashem declined to rewrite a post to specify German occupation.
- Yad Vashem wrote that Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge and later clarified that German authorities ordered it, pointing to a linked article.
- Yad Vashem cited a November 23, 1939 decree by Hans Frank in the Generalgouvernement requiring Jews aged 10 and above to wear marked armbands.
- Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan said the institution accurately reflects that Poland was under German occupation and rejected claims of misleading language.
- Polish leaders, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, criticized the post, and the Auschwitz Memorial connected the dispute to reported plans for a Yad Vashem branch in Germany.