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Rivlin tells Poles that not enough of them helped Jews

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Published: 31 January 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

After speech contradicting Netanyahu, president then tells special session of Bundestag that Israel and Germany walk together between past and present

Rivlin told Poles what Netanyahu wouldn’t (Haaretz)
Israel's president refused to mince his words and said that 'too few' Poles helped their Jewish neighbours, aligning himself with Yad Vashem's historians rather than Netanyahu's version

Reuven Rivlin: Israel and Germany walk together between past and present (Jerusalem Post)
Israel's president spoke at a special session of the Bundestag – where Hitler once stood and declared the end of world Jewry – in memory of the victims of Nazism.

Photo: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks in Poland with Polish President Andrzej Duda, January 27 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
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