Overview
- Yad Vashem wrote on X on November 23 that Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinguishing sign to isolate them from the rest of the population.
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the wording looked deliberate rather than a mistake and urged the institution to state its position clearly, calling the episode a disgrace for Yad Vashem.
- Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz rejected the claim, saying the rules were imposed by Nazi German occupiers and noting that Poles who helped Jews faced death or forced labor.
- Former ambassador Marek Magierowski called the statement an outrageous distortion and pressed for a correction, an apology, and an appropriate response from Poland’s embassy in Israel.
- As of the latest reports, there was no public correction or apology from Yad Vashem.