Denial at Yad Vashem

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Denial at Yad Vashem

By TJ Reporter - Thursday 16th August 2007

A government-appointed teacher-trainer in Poland has been accused of 
denying the Holocaust and making offensive comments while at a Yad 
Vashem workshop in Jerusalem.

Tadeusz Trzaskowski, a representative of the National In-Service 
Teacher Training Centre (CODN) in Poland, appointed by the Ministry 
of Education, allegedly made the comments during a series of 
workshops organised by the International School of Studies on the 
Holocaust last week.

A Warsaw teacher who also attended the workshops said: "The CODN 
representative was the most vociferous. He asked how it was known 
that so many people had died during the Holocaust and said that he 
had information that the death toll had been exaggerated."

Despite several requests, he allegedly refused to take off his cowboy 
hat and wear a yarmulke, and, when he saw a rabbi, he reportedly 
shouted: "That's the first time I have seen a rabbi with blue eyes!"

A spokesperson for the CODN said he did not see anything wrong with 
the comments.

Meanwhile, Polish authorities are analysing tapes following 
complaints that a senior priest accused the country of being in the 
pockets of the Jewish lobby.

A tape, leaked to Polish magazine Wprost, allegedly contains a 
lecture from Father Tadeus Rydzyk, lambasting the country's leaders 
for giving Jews compensation for property seized during the war.

Rydzyk, owner Radio Maryja, one of the country's biggest stations, 
was recorded as saying "You know what this is about: Poland giving 
[the Jews] $65 billion (£32 billion). They will come to you and say, 
'Give me your coat! Take off your trousers! Give me your shoes!'"

He claims the comments were manipulated.