Simon Wiesenthal Center Mulls Travel Advisory To Jews Going To Poland
Polish marchers on Polish Independence Day in 2017. Image by Getty Images
By Ari Feldman February 27, 2018
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights non-profit, is mulling posting a travel advisory for Jews going to Poland in the wake of an international controversy over a Holocaust rhetoric law, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
“We would take such action with great reluctance. We are not enemies of Poland,” the group said in a statement. “But in 2018, we fear for a Poland that has now seen the history of the Holocaust recast by political forces who seek to bury the ugly past that includes the murder of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust and in the immediate aftermath of [the Second World War].”
The advisory would encourage Jewish tourists in Poland to visit only Holocaust memorial sites and not to travel more widely in the country.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is based in Los Angeles, and is named for the famous Nazi hunter.
Contact Ari Feldman at feldman@forward.com or on Twitter @aefeldman
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
