Pressure Mounts on Poland to Back Away From Holocaust Bill

Pressure Mounts on Poland to Back Away From Holocaust Bill
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews during WWII in Markowa, Poland Feb. 2, 2018. Agencja Gazeta/Patryk Ogorzalek via Reuters
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WARSAW–Poland is seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism over pending legislation that would impose jail terms for suggestions that the nation was complicit in the Holocaust, local minority groups warned, as pressure mounts on the president to veto the bill.

Parliament passed the measure on Thursday, drawing outrage from Israel, U.S. criticism and condemnation from a number of international organizations. President Andrzej Duda has 21 days to decide whether to sign it into law.