A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centred around the Holocaust “stupid.” Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an interview last week with the British publication Jewish News. Nowak was discussing the 2018 amendment to the country’s Act on…
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Jaroslaw Nowak, who was appointed to his position in July, also said that “at some point,” Poland will “have to do something” about restitution for Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The dismissal comes a day after the official criticized in an interview a legislation passed in 2018 originally seeking to outlaw blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes