Poland Seeks to Assure Wary U.S. as Holocaust Law Takes Effect
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Pedestrians walk along a city street, backdropped by the Palace of Culture and Science, center, in central Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 9, 2017.
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A top Polish official is assuring his American counterparts in Washington that “nothing” will happen when a widely-criticized law takes effect Thursday that would criminalize assertions Poland bears any responsibility for Holocaust atrocities.
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Marek Magierowski told reporters in Washington that the country is determined to de-escalate tensions between Poland and Israel and U.S. created by the law, which imposes jail terms of as much as three years for falsely suggesting Poles were complicit in the Holocaust.