WARSAW, Poland — Matylda Jonas-Kowalik has spent most of her 22 years secure in the belief that she would never know the discrimination, persecution or violence that killed or traumatized generations of Polish Jews before her. She once thought the biggest problem that young Jewish Poles like herself faced was finding a Jewish boyfriend or girlfriend in a country dominated by Catholics.
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Holocaust survivor Esther Birenbaum holds a picture from her school days in Poland during a protest in front of Polish embassy in Tel Aviv on Feb. 8, against a controversial bill passed by the eastern European country's senate.
The legislation sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone describing Nazi German death camps in Poland, like Auschwitz-Birkenau, as Polish.
