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Polish prosecutors probe Auschwitz denial by far-right MEP

According to the prosecutor’s office, Braun denied — “in public and contrary to established facts” — the genocide the Nazis carried out at Auschwitz between 1941 and 1944, in particular the murder of Jews and other victims using gas chambers.

Polish foreign minister warns against rising racism and antisemitism

Radosław Sikorski criticised far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun, who has questioned the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

Poland marks 85th anniversary of first deportation to Auschwitz

June 14, 1940, when the first transport of 728 Poles arrived from a prison in the city of Tarnów, is widely considered the date Auschwitz began operating.

Polish far-right MEP stripped of parliamentary immunity for a variety of alleged crimes, including antisemitic incidents

The most controversial and widely reported of the incidents happened in December 2023, when Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles lit during a ceremony in the Polish parliament involving Polish-Jewish leaders.

Far-right MEP who disrupted minute of silence during IHRD sanctioned

He will also be sidelined from parliamentary activities for a month and prohibited from attending next year’s Holocaust memorial.

Polish government unveils a monument to honour Poles killed for aiding Jews during the Holocaust

The new monument, featuring inscriptions in Polish, English and Hebrew, has been installed in Ciepielów, a town of just 770 people in central-eastern Poland.
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