{"id":100483,"date":"2018-03-17T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibula.com\/?p=100483"},"modified":"2018-03-17T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T17:41:46","slug":"komunikat-prasowy-akcja-polonii-amerykanskiej-na-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bibula.com\/?p=100483","title":{"rendered":"Komunikat prasowy: Akcja Polonii Ameryka\u0144skiej na Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 marca 2018 kilkudziesi\u0119ciu przedstawicieli r\u00f3\u017cnych o\u015brodk\u00f3w polonijnych w USA odwiedzi\u0142o w celach edukacyjno-lobbistycznych biura ponad 300 kongresmen\u00f3w na Capitol Hill w Waszyngtonie. W czasie trwania akcji, znanej pod nazw\u0105 Polish American Capitol Hill Outreach, uczestnicy przeprowadzili setki rozm\u00f3w usi\u0142uj\u0105c zwr\u00f3ci\u0107 uwag\u0119 kongresmen\u00f3w zar\u00f3wno na bezpo\u015brednie cele ustaw S.447 (Senat) i H.R.1226 (Izba Reprezentant\u00f3w), jak i na ewentualne d\u0142ugoterminowe konsekwencje ich uchwalenia, nie tylko w Polsce, ale tak\u017ce i w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Uczestnicy akcji zwracali uwag\u0119 zar\u00f3wno na antypolski, jak r\u00f3wnie\u017c na, mniej rozumiany, antyameryka\u0144ski charakter powy\u017cej wymienionych ustaw postuluj\u0105cych naruszenie istniej\u0105c\u0105cych norm prawnych i stworzenie precedensu opartego na ponadprawnych rozwi\u0105zaniach jawnie dyskryminuj\u0105cych wzgl\u0119dem innych grup etnicznych, narodowych i religijnych.<\/p>\r\n<p>Problemem na kt\u00f3ry zwracano szczeg\u00f3ln\u0105 uwag\u0119 w trakcie rozm\u00f3w w biurach kongresmen\u00f3w, by\u0142 postulat tak zwanej \u201erestytucji mienia pozostawionego bezpotomnie i beztestamentowo\u201d. Postulat ten jest postrzegany jako sprzeczny z normami i tradycj\u0105 prawn\u0105 cywilizacji zachodniej. Stworzenie takiego precedensu musia\u0142oby mie\u0107 dalszy negatywny wp\u0142yw na prawodawstwo ameryka\u0144skie. Mimo i\u017c, ustawy S. 447 i H.R. 1226 nak\u0142adaj\u0105 na ameryka\u0144skie struktury rz\u0105dowe jedynie obowi\u0105zek monitorowania i sporz\u0105dzania raport\u00f3w dotycz\u0105cych realizacji tzw. Deklaracji Terezi\u0144skiej przez jej sygnatariuszy, w tym Polsk\u0119, do\u015bwiadczenie uczy, \u017ce tego rodzaju raporty s\u0105 cz\u0119sto sporz\u0105dzane w spos\u00f3b tendencyjny, s\u0105 upolityczniane i ostatecznie wykorzystywane jako instrumenty nacisku mi\u0119dzynarodowego. Przyk\u0142adem tego typu dzia\u0142a\u0144 jest post\u0119powanie prawne <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Jewish_Congress_lawsuit_against_Swiss_banks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u015awiatowego Kongresu \u017byd\u00f3w (WJC) przeciwko Szwajcarii<\/a>&nbsp;i tzw. raport Eizenstata. Raport ten, szkaluj\u0105cy Szwajcari\u0119 jako bankiera nazistowskich Niemiec i pomocnika Trzeciej Rzeszy, spotka\u0142 si\u0119 z olbrzymi\u0105 krytyk\u0105 g\u0142\u00f3wnego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/two-views_looking-back-at-the-holocaust-assets-controversy\/36756580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">negocjatora szwajcarskiego<\/a>, spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwa szwajcarskiego, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/nazis\/readings\/declaration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rady Federacji Szwajcarskiej<\/a> jak i <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blocher.ch\/uploads\/media\/970621eizenstat_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prominentnych szwajcarskich polityk\u00f3w<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Uczestnicy podkre\u015blali r\u00f3wnie\u017c, \u017ce sama Deklaracja Terezi\u0144ska, dokument nie maj\u0105cy \u017cadnej mocy prawnej, a s\u0142u\u017c\u0105cy jako trzon obu ustaw, aribtralnie dyskryminuje i wyklucza z tzw. \u201erestytucji mienia bezspadkowego\u201d wszystkie nie\u017cydowskie ofiary niemieckiej Trzeciej Rzeszy* &#8211; co jest sprzeczne z prawem ameryka\u0144skim. Ponadto wskazywano na fakt, \u017ce Deklaracja Terezi\u0144ska jest jedn\u0105 z tysi\u0119cy deklaracji mi\u0119dzynarodowych (zwykle ignorowanych przez Kongres USA) i charakteryzuje si\u0119 ona wysokim poziomem og\u00f3lno\u015bci i abstrakcji a w po\u0142\u0105czeniu z oboma ustawami daje nadzwyczajne uprawnienia Specjalnemu Wys\u0142annikowi ds. Holocaustu, co dyskredytuje j\u0105 jako odno\u015bnik do ustaw uchwalanych w Kongresie USA. Zwr\u00f3cono r\u00f3wnie\u017c uwag\u0119, i\u017c arbitralne nak\u0142adanie obowi\u0105zku monitorowania realizacji Deklaracji Terezi\u0144skiej na czo\u0142owe \u015bwiatowe mocarstwo USA, a nie np. na niezale\u017cn\u0105 od nacisk\u00f3w zewn\u0119trznych instytucj\u0119 mi\u0119dzynarodow\u0105, budzi w\u0105tpliwo\u015bci z punktu widzenia obyczaj\u00f3w prawnych.<\/p>\r\n<p>Celem akcji Polish American Capitol Hill Outreach by\u0142o wstrzymanie dalszego procedowania&nbsp; tych szkodliwych ustaw. Mimo opor\u00f3w, a czasem wr\u0119cz destrukcyjnych dzia\u0142a\u0144 niekt\u00f3rych cz\u0142onk\u00f3w Polish American Congress w stosunku do edukacyjno-lobbistycznej akcji Polonii w dniach j\u0105 poprzedzaj\u0105cych, akcja w Kongresie zako\u0144czy\u0142a si\u0119 niekwestionowanym sukcesem. W czasie jej trwania uczestnicy akcji nie tylko odwiedzili biura ponad 300 kongresmen\u00f3w, ale odbyli dodatkowo dwadzie\u015bcia pi\u0119\u0107 20 do 45 minutowych spotka\u0144 z osobami odpowiedzialnymi w biurach kongresmen\u00f3w&nbsp; za kwestie polityki mi\u0119dzynarodowej.<\/p>\r\n<p>W tym miejscu pragniemy serdecznie podzi\u0119kowa\u0107 wszystkim osobom, kt\u00f3rym nieoboj\u0119tne jest s\u0142owo Polska i kt\u00f3re poprzez bezpo\u015brednie czy te\u017c po\u015brednie wspieranie naszej akcji na Capitolu pokaza\u0142y, \u017ce jest mo\u017cliwe przedk\u0142adanie interes\u00f3w naszego kraju ponad partykularne interesy poszczeg\u00f3lnych os\u00f3b.<\/p>\r\n<p>Akcja trwa! Tw\u00f3rzmy nowe grupy! Zjawmy si\u0119 wkr\u00f3tce ponownie w Waszyngtonie, aby doko\u0144czy\u0107 prac\u0119 rozpocz\u0119t\u0105 12 marca 2018.<\/p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p>* Deklaracja Terezi\u0144ska, 30 czerwca 2009, Artyku\u0142: Nieruchomo\u015bci<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>Wzywamy, by tam, gdzie nie zosta\u0142o to skutecznie osi\u0105gni\u0119te, zosta\u0142y podj\u0119te wszelkie mo\u017cliwe starania na rzecz restytucji by\u0142ego \u017cydowskiego wsp\u00f3lnotowego i religijnego maj\u0105tku w drodze albo restytucji in rem albo rekompensaty, tak jak to b\u0119dzie w\u0142a\u015bciwe.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Uwa\u017camy, \u017ce wa\u017cne jest, tam gdzie nie zosta\u0142o to jeszcze skutecznie osi\u0105gni\u0119te, zaj\u0119cie si\u0119 prywatnymi roszczeniami ofiar Holokaustu (Shoah) dotycz\u0105cymi nieruchomo\u015bci by\u0142ych w\u0142a\u015bcicieli, spadkobierc\u00f3w lub ich nast\u0119pc\u00f3w, w drodze albo restytucji in rem albo rekompensaty, tak jak to b\u0119dzie w\u0142a\u015bciwe, w sprawiedliwy, wszechstronny i niedyskryminacyjny spos\u00f3b, zgodny z prawem krajowym i odpowiednimi regulacjami, jak r\u00f3wnie\u017c umowami mi\u0119dzynarodowymi.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\r\n<hr style=\"background-color: #000000; border-width: 0; color: #000000; height: 2px; line-height: 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\r\n<h4>Resources<\/h4>\r\n<p><strong>Legal documents (agreements, declarations, acts, opinions, reports)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/germandeathcampsnotpolish.pl\/771_act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish Antidefamation Law (2018) &#8211; Polish version<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ms.gov.pl\/pl\/informacje\/news,10368,nowelizacja-ustawy-o-ipn--wersja-w-jezyku.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish Antidefamation Law (2018) &#8211; English version<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/act-s-447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Act S. 447<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/act-h-r-1226-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Act H.R. 1226<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/polish-israeli-intergovernmental-consultations-joint-statement-november-22-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish-Israeli Intergovernmental Consultations Joint Statement, November 22, 2016<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/terezin-declaration-2009-english-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terezin Declaration (2009) &#8211; English version<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/terezin-declaration-2009-polish-version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terezin Declaration (2009) &#8211; Polish version<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/the-legal-opinion-the-the-platta-law-firm-new-york-on-restitution-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal opinion of the Platta Law Firm PLLC, New York 2015 dated October 14, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/fcsc\/completed-programs-poland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Report of the U.S. Polish Claims Program<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/agreement-between-the-united-states-of-america-and-poland-regarding-claims-of-nationals-of-the-united-states-1960\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agreement between the United States of America and Poland regarding claims<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sejm.gov.pl\/media8.nsf\/files\/KKOI-AR4BNP\/%24File\/1455%20-%2017%20EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish Parliament: Legal opinion on the possibility of Poland seeking compensation from Germany in connection with international agreements for damage suffered during World War II<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Press materials<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.pl\/wiadomosci\/kaddish-for-a-million-bucks\/e7j11d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaddish for a million bucks<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Article of the Polish edition of Forbes highlighting the problems of the Jewish property restitution in Poland. Autor: Wojciech Surmacz, in cooperation with Nissan Tzur, investigative journalist working for &#8222;Maariv\u201d and &#8222;The Jerusalem Post\u201d, October 2, 2013<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Historical sources<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/polish-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-1942-special-report-on-the-mass-extermination-of-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1942): Special Report on the Mass Extermination of Jews<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/a-tangled-web-polish-jewish-relations-in-wartime-by-mark-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Tangled Web: Polish-Jewish Relations in Wartime Northeastern Poland and the Aftermath, Part 3, by Mark Paul<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Official correspondence<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/letter-of-the-congressional-anti-semitism-task-force-to-the-polish-president-andrzej-duda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter of the Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force to the Polish President Andrzej Duda, February 1, 2018<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/letter-to-the-u-s-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to the Congress, January 8, 2018<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/response-of-the-polish-american-congress-november-19-2015-to-the-letter-of-46-congressmen-to-john-kerry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Response of the Polish American Congress to the letter of 46 congressmen to John Kerry, November 19, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/reply-to-the-letter-to-john-f-kerry-secretary-of-state-sent-by-the-biggest-polish-daily-in-the-usa-nowy-dziennik-new-york-on-october-15-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reply to the letter to John F. Kerry, Secretary of State sent by the biggest Polish daily in the USA Nowy Dziennik from New York, October 15, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/letter-to-the-polish-prime-minister-ewa-kopacz-sent-by-the-office-of-comptroller-on-july-30-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to the Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz sent by the Office of Comptroller, July 30, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/letter-to-john-f-kerry-secretary-of-state-sent-by-the-members-of-congress-on-june-29-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to John F. Kerry, Secretary of State sent by the Members of Congress on June 29, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\r\n<hr style=\"background-color: #000000; border-width: 0; color: #000000; height: 2px; line-height: 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\r\n<h2>Sign this petition now!<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image  -image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Logo-Stop-Act-HR-1226.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Logo-Stop-Act-HR-1226.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Logo-Stop-Act-HR-1226-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Logo-Stop-Act-HR-1226-768x427.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"333\"><\/div>\r\n<p><em>Last updated 2018-02-22<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Please also call your representative and inform him\/her about Poland\u2019s objections against the flawed bill H.R. 1226 (please refer to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/legal-background\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8222;Legal Background\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/historical-background\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8222;Historical Background\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;for more details)!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>To email the petition please:&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Copy\/paste the <strong>letter posted below<\/strong>&nbsp;into your email or send as an attachment (feel free to amend the letter or to add your own comments)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Find your Representative\u2019s email address and more details please download&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hr1226_HOB.xlsx\">the list<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and email the petition<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Alternatively, you can call directly your Representative. You will find relevant phone numbers to call on the list as above<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>To send the petition via post please:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Copy\/paste the <strong>letter posted below<\/strong> (feel free to amend the letter or to add your own comments)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Fill in your address, sign the letter and print your name under the signature<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Find your Representative on the webpage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">govtrack.us<\/a><\/strong> &nbsp;by inserting your address in the appropriate box on this page<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Insert the full name of your Representative in the letter<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Mail the letter to your Representative<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The Polish version of the letter can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/stopacthr1226.org\/sign-this-petition-now-polish-translation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<h4><strong>Please act now!<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<hr>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Letter to the HR Foreign Affairs Committee Members&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Honorable Rep. _______________________<\/p>\r\n<p>U.S. House of Representatives<\/p>\r\n<p>Foreign Affairs Committee<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Dear Rep.\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad______________________,<\/p>\r\n<p>Please stop Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226! Poland, the strongest ally of the United States in continental Europe, is the primary target of these bills. As a country with the largest pre-war population of Jews, Poland is targeted through these bills for &#8222;heirless property\u201d restitution claims for billions of dollars by Jewish organizations. This legislation will result in weakening the key US ally in the European Union, thereby will facilitate to drive out the voice of the United States from Europe.<\/p>\r\n<p>I urge you to reject Bills S. 447 and H.R.1226 on legal grounds for the following reasons:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>During WWII, Poland suffered proportionally the greatest human and material losses but was never compensated for these losses.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Over the years, Poland has resorted to various means to resolve private and communal property claims, including the return of properties to their rightful owners and monetary compensation.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>According to the 1960 treaty between the government of the U.S. and Poland regarding claims of nationals of the United States, Poland compensated American nationals whose assets had been nationalized or wrongfully seized, and the United States provided indemnity to Poland against any further property claims. Therefore, Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 violate the terms of the 1960 bilateral treaty.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Poland returned Jewish communal property pursuant to the 1997 law on the relationship between the Polish State and Jewish religious organizations. Over 2,500 communal properties, including synagogues, cemeteries and cultural centers, have been either compensated for or returned.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>All Jewish Holocaust survivors of Polish origin are eligible to receive a monthly pension from the Polish Government according to the law on war veterans and victims of war and post-war oppression.&nbsp; Thus, Holocaust survivors who were Polish citizens during WWII have been receiving financial assistance from the Polish Government regardless of their current place of residence.&nbsp; So, the claim for heirless property compensation in order to assist Holocaust survivors is duplicative with respect to Poland.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Restitution for heirless property is against the law of the United States, Western legal tradition and Polish law. In all Western countries, the US included, heirless property escheats to the state.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>According to the Congressional Authority Statement, Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 are authorized pursuant to the Commerce Clause of Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States. The Commerce Clause has nothing to do with this bill, which is based on the legally non-binding Terezin Declaration concerned with the well-being of Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>I urge you to reject Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 on moral grounds for the following reasons:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>With respect to heirless property claims, Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 have no basis in law. Therefore they must rely on moral justification exclusively.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Some Holocaust organizations and scholars have been engaged for years in discrimination of Polish victims and distortion of Holocaust history by diminishing the suffering of Polish victims in WWII, disregarding Polish witnesses to history, marginalizing and suppressing the voice of Polish victims, eliminating ethnic Poles from the definition of Holocaust victims, and sidelining German genocide of ethnic Poles in Holocaust education.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>There is not a single museum anywhere in the United States commemorating the millions of Polish victims of the German WWII genocide while there were 75 Holocaust museums worldwide as of 2011.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Some Holocaust scholars and educators have been overemphasizing and widely promoting questionable research and biased education about Polish co-responsibility for the Holocaust of the Jews, while effectively suppressing research and education about Jewish collaboration in killing Jews and Jewish killings of ethnic Poles.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>The majority of Holocaust scholars and educators have never publicly objected to or unequivocally condemned the spread of major Holocaust falsehoods such as &#8222;Polish concentration camps\u201d or &#8222;Polish death camps.\u201d Such inactions on their part constitute Holocaust distortion in its pure form and amount to Holocaust denial in accordance with paragraph 5 of the definition of Holocaust denial adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>The use of the term &#8222;Polish concentration camp\u201d is deceptive and offends millions of Polish people, whose relatives were brutally murdered by the German occupying forces in the concentration and death camps set up and operated by the German Third Reich.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Some Holocaust researchers engage in brutal smear campaigns against Poland by accusing the Polish people, before the entire world, of Polish complicity and culpability for German crimes committed on the Jews.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>In order to showcase a moral justification for &#8222;heirless\u201d property claims against Poland, a worldwide smear and disinformation campaign has just been launched under the pretense of opposition to the amendment to an anti-defamation bill passed by the Polish Parliament.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>On January 27, 2018, one leading Israeli politicians Yair Lapid announced: &#8222;these were Polish death camps and no law will change it.\u201d This terrible Holocaust lie did not prompt condemnation by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Instead, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed &#8222;deep concern\u201d over the adopted legislation, falsely interpreting the law in order to accuse Poland of making it illegal &#8222;to reference the complicity of some Poles in crimes against the Jews committed during the German occupation.\u201d&nbsp; Those who resort to such dishonest methods have no right to refer to and call for moral justice.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>According to the Israeli War Crimes Commission less than 0.1% of Poles (often Polish Germans) collaborated with Nazi Germany. 99.9% of the Polish people DID NOT!<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>During WWII, the Polish Home Army (AK) instituted a law that any Pole collaborating with Germans in persecuting Jews will be sentenced to death. Subsequently, AK held trials of the perpetrators of such crimes and carried out death sentences.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n<p>Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 are morally offensive because they treat the Polish State and the Polish Nation as perpetrators of the German crimes committed on the Jews whereas the Polish people were the victim of German WWII genocide. Poland suffered the most during WWII. Ethnic Poles and ethnic Jews experienced physical destruction like no one else. Through Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226, one victim frames the other victim as the perpetrator in order to extort compensation in blatant disregard of the historical truth. That is not moral and that is not just.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>I strongly urge you to vote against this legally flawed and immorally insincere Bills S. 447 and H.R. 1226 that cause pain and suffering to the people of Polish descent all over the world, aggravate their genocidal trauma, and violate their human rights.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\r\n<hr style=\"background-color: #000000; border-width: 0; color: #000000; height: 2px; line-height: 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\r\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12 marca 2018 kilkudziesi\u0119ciu przedstawicieli r\u00f3\u017cnych o\u015brodk\u00f3w polonijnych w USA odwiedzi\u0142o w celach edukacyjno-lobbistycznych biura ponad 300 kongresmen\u00f3w na Capitol Hill w Waszyngtonie. 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