US blasted over Jewish treatment

19th March 2011

Sikorski’s comments have stoked the ames of the US-Poland Holocaust slagging match

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Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has accused the United States of failing to help the Jews during the Holocaust, in a fiery response to US criticism of the Polish government’s decision to shelve plans to compensate Jews who had their property confiscated under communism.

Rebuffing comments from Stuart Eizenstat, a special advisor to Hilary Clinton, expressing Washington’s disappointment with Warsaw’s move, Mr Sikorski said the US knew about the peril of the Jews through Jan Karski, a Polish official who produced evidence of the Holocaust.

“If the United States wanted to do something for Polish Jews, a good moment was 1943-44, when the majority of them were still alive, and ...

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