Warsaw — A diplomatic row with Israel over a Holocaust bill adopted by the Polish parliament was rooted in misunderstanding, Poland’s foreign minister said on Monday, but he did not rule out amending it, even after it is signed into law. The legislation, which still needs the president’s signature to take effect, was introduced by Poland’s governing right-wing Law and Justice party to stop people from erroneously describing Nazi German death camps as being Polish, simply due to their geographical location. It would make it a crime to accuse the Polish state of complicity in the Holocaust. Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, however told the Polish PAP news agency that Israel believed the bill could open the door to prosecuting Holocaust survivors for their testimony should it concern the involvement of individual Poles allegedly killing or giving up Jews to the Germans. Poland’s Foreign Minister, Jacek Czaputowicz, ruled out that possibility, saying under "Polish law and the ...
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