I just looked it up and as far as I can tell, the law, called “Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance” is still on the books but it was indeed amended (not repealed) shortly after it was passed. It was amended to remove possible criminal penalties, but people who speak about complicity can still be tried in civil courts. (And a section about Ukrainian nationalists was also removed.)

The difference here is that Poland now has a law forbidding people to speak about complicity. I fear the slippery slope, and what other statements will become illegal”.

This is a lie. There is no such law in Poland. The truth is that such a law only existed for a few months in 2018 and was ultimately repealed by parliament. This is why this fragment of the text is misleading.

What about Gaza? You sign this as Benjamin Netanyahu, but somehow I doubt he uses a yahoo email address. I can guess two things you might mean by this. One would be that you are condemning Hamas for their attack on November 7, which in its indiscriminate killing brought up a lot of feelings around the Jews’ generational trauma of the Holocaust. On the other hand, you might be saying that Israel is committing similar atrocities in Gaza right now (which is not what Netanyahu would say). Yes, that is also indiscriminate killing, and there’s no excuse for what the Likud government is doing. Lest you are thinking it is Israel’s fault as a whole, it’s not. Huge numbers of Israeli citizens are protesting daily, calling for a two-state solution and for Netanyahu to step down. And if you think that what they’re doing in Gaza somehow excuses the Holocaust, it doesn’t. They’re both wrong.

Thanks, Peter. Yes, I think that’s what it says. But I haven’t been able to trace him.

Hearing a story from a Holocaust survivor (which I did too, as part of Sunday School, years later), is a valuable experience, even for a 5-year-old. But seeing those images at that age? I was too young. I think it would have been better to tell me about it at that age, but not let me see the photos till I was older.

Yes, and it frightens me how easily those “better angels” can nevertheless be led to do evil, or at least to allow it to happen. You might want to read the second part of this post as well, since it addresses some of this, specific to Poland.