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Reuters: US voices concern Polish lawmakers back draft Holocaust law

By Reuters.

Published Feb. 1, 2018 at 11:48 am

A Jewish woman lays flowers during the 70th memorial ceremony tribute to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev, on October 3, 2011. The Nazis murdered 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar on September 29 and 30, 1941, in an atrocity that has only been properly commemorated in recent years as the deadliest shooting massacre of the Holocaust. AFP PHOTO/SERGEI SUPINSK

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Polish lawmakers approved draft legislation on February 1 penalizing suggestions of any complicity by Poland in the Nazi Holocaust on its soil during World War Two, defying criticism by Israel and the United States.

The proposal has triggered a diplomatic spat between Israel and Warsaw’s conservative government since its initial approval in the lower house of parliament last week, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comparing it to an effort to change history.