From the Kosciuszko Foundation and the American Center of Polish Culture: Please sign the petition demanding that the media stop calling “Auschwitz” a “Polish concentration camp.”
The Kosciuszko Foundation has posted a petition on it’s web site demanding that the media stop using libelous phrases such as “Polish concentration camps” and “Polish death camps,” which amounts to a form of Holocaust revisionism. News outlets that use these defamatory phrases are teaching new generations of impressionable newspaper readers, and the general public, that the Holocaust was carried out by Poles rather than Nazi Germany.
Poland did not exist from September 1939 until 1945. German maps from this time period show that the camps were built in “The Greater German Reich,” and the “General Government” area which were part of Hitler’s German expansion to the eastern conquered territories. The camps were established by Germans, run by Germans, and guarded by Germans. The Nazis gave them German names like “Auschwitz” and hung German words over the entrance, “Arbeit macht frei.”
Please assist in sending a message to media companies: They must stop using use these historically erroneous phrases. Please let the media hear our outrage about this by signing the petition.
Fundacja Kościuszkowska rozpoczęła akcję zbierania podpisów pod petycją do mediów, aby przestały używać określenia “polskie obozy koncentracyjne”.
– Jeśli nie narobimy hałasu, nic się nie zmieni. Jeśli Polacy chcą, aby świat myślał, że obozy koncentracyjne są naszym dziełem, to niech siedzą cicho. Jeśli chcemy przekonać wszystkich, że były to obozy niemieckie, nie siedźmy z założonymi rękami i podpiszmy petycję” – apeluje prezes Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej Alex Storożyński.
