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Yet another instance of vandalism targeting Holocaust memorials in Poland. In the latest incident, a hateful message was scrawled on the Umschlagplatz monument in Warsaw, which commemorates the 300,000 Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943. The hateful message read: "Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025." Since the start of […]

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The post made by EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen later clarified that Auschwitz was a Nazi German extermination camp. Poland has cracked down on public criticism of its role in the Holocaust in recent years