By Zachary Kimmel (Stanford Law School J.D. ’27) In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Then-Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged member states to educate future generations about its history. Yet in January 2018, on the eve of this observance, the Polish Parliament adopted legislation criminalizing public statements that attributed responsibility for the Holocaust to Poland. Signed into law by President Andrzej Duda, the statute threatened up to three years’ imprisonment for speech referencing individual acts of collaboration or suggesting broader Polish complicity in Nazi atrocities. It even applied extraterritorially […]
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