Subscribe to Print Edition | Sat., November 10, 2007 Cheshvan 29, 5768 | | Israel Time: 18:39 (EST+7) web haaretz.com   Back to Homepage Print Edition Diplomacy Defense Arts & Leisure Real Estate Jewish World National Advertising Magazine Week's End Business Opinion Rosner's Domain Anglo File Books Travel

del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 19:48 27/06/2007 UN accepts request to change name of Auschwitz death camp By The Associated Press The United Nations has accepted Poland's request to rename the Auschwitz death camp on its list of World Heritage sites to make clear it was run by Germans not Poles, the Polish government announced on Wednesday. Auschwitz and the linked Birkenau camp in Poland would be known as "Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German Concentration and Death Camp", Culture Minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski told a news conference in Warsaw. But a spokesman for the Paris-based UN education and culture arm UNESCO said he could not confirm the news. Last year, Poland announced prematurely that the change had been made. Advertisement "UNESCO has made a decision as a result of Poland's request to change the name of Auschwitz Birkenau to reflect the historical truth," Ujazdowski said, with the Israeli ambassador at his side. "This is a victory for truth." More than a million Jews from across Europe were killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz and Birkenau in occupied Poland during World War Two. Many Poles worry that the world is forgetting the camps were set up by the Germans. Warsaw points to references to "Polish gas chambers" or the "Polish concentration camps" in world media as evidence Poles are wrongly portrayed as collaborators with the Nazis in killing Jews. Last year, Poland formally asked UNESCO to change the camp's name. Jewish organizations and Israel backed the plan after initial reservations. UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has been meeting in New Zealand this week. German forces occupying Poland set up Auschwitz in southern Poland in 1940as a labor camp for Polish prisoners, gradually expanding it into a vast labor and death camp that became the centerpiece of their plans to kill all European Jews. Between 1.2 and 1.5 million people died there, most of them Jews. Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith were also killed. Poland has long battled accusations by some Jewish and Western commentators that Poles were willing Nazi helpers during the war - accusations driven by documented incidents of Polish anti-Semitism and complicity in the Holocaust. Poles argue that such cases were isolated and point out that 3 million of their ethnic kin perished during the bloody German occupation. Some were killed for trying to save their Jewish compatriots. Bookmark to del.icio.us Freedom of speech A Spanish court rules that the crime of Holocaust denial does not warrant a jail sentence. Road map to peace Israel and PA agree a future deal between them will hinge on implementing the road map.   1.   " A Heritage site." 18:43  |  David Nigel Braham 27/06/07   2.   Finally, it was NOT Poles 19:00  |  J 27/06/07   3.   overlooked facts 19:41  |  person 27/06/07   4.   Auschwitz 19:50  |  Beit David 27/06/07   5.   Clumsy 19:55  |  Axel 27/06/07   6.   That is fair and appropriate change. Poland should not be held 19:56  |  David Cohen 27/06/07   7.   Thou dost protest too much 20:01  |  Pete Kusnick 27/06/07   8.   Beit David 20:12  |  David 27/06/07   9.   #Beit David 20:29  |  kevinish 27/06/07   10.   #4 Aushwitz 20:34  |  mark 27/06/07   11.   2. J....not the poles, erm.... 20:43  |  amos 27/06/07   12.   # 10 21:02  |  Axel 27/06/07   13.   Auschwitz 21:13  |  Ted 27/06/07   14.   German Camp but.... 21:15  |  Nephtaly 27/06/07   15.   #14 So called post-war pogroms in Poland 21:58  |  mark 27/06/07   16.   to Amos 22:00  |  Justine 27/06/07   17.   #12 22:03  |  mark 27/06/07   18.   to Nephtaly 22:03  |  Justine 27/06/07   19.   Poland can try and re-write history all they want. 22:15  |  Jerusalem Shmuel 27/06/07   20.   # 17 mark 22:29  |  Axel 27/06/07   21.   to Shmuel - there is Chabad in Poland 22:35  |  Justine 27/06/07   22.   to Mark 22:50  |  Justine 27/06/07   23.   To Nephtaly 23:13  |  Chris 27/06/07   24.   Yes should be changed to.. 00:26  |  fd 28/06/07   25.   to Shmuel - there is Chabad in Poland 01:03  |  Jerusalem Shmuel 28/06/07   26.   Unfair 17:54  |  David 28/06/07   27.   shame on the world? 18:19  |  Lance 10/11/07

Today Online Jessica Balaban: Why should world Jewry aid Israeli Arabs? Responses: 153 Jacob Victor: Mukasey is the latest victim of the malaise of U.S. Jewish leadership Responses: 122 Israel, PA agree future deals conditional on carrying out road map Responses: 168 Top Hamas official: We'll conquer W. Bank if Israel withdraws Responses: 135 Israel seeks fresh Holocaust reparations deal with Germany Responses: 274 M. Firillas: Pakistan turmoil raises specter of an Islamic bomb Responses: 56 Rosner's Domain 18%, 28%, 46%, 52%: how many really support military action in Iran? (WTR) Annapolis dictionary: P is for photo-op Rosner's Guest: Why not a women's Talmud? Poll: Should American Jews have a voice in shaping Israel's policies? More Headlines 17:20 Mausoleum of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat unveiled in Ramallah 18:01 Report: Annapolis summit to be followed by meeting in Moscow 17:01 PA Police seize 40 bombs in militant stronghold in Nablus 17:10 Egyptian police shoot Eritrean trying to cross border into Israel 08:23 U.S. synagogue ties with 'women priests' draws ire of Catholics 05:16 Top Hamas official: We'll seize West Bank if Israel withdraws 09:35 Police arrest 6 men from Qalansuwa suspected of raping Netanya girls 12:59 Torah damaged during Kristallnacht returned to Cologne synagogue 15:51 IDF troops open fire, arrest suspected smugglers who infiltrated Israel Previous Editions Select Day 09 nov 08 nov 07 nov 06 nov 05 nov 04 nov 02 nov 01 nov 31 oct 30 oct 29 oct 28 oct

Special Offers Advertisement Invest in Macedonia New Business Heaven in Europe Long-term Israel programs MASA is your gateway. More programs. More grants. Eldan Rent a Car Israel's leading car rental company offers you a 20% discount on all online reservations JOIN FREE AT JDATE.COM The most popular online Jewish dating community in the world! Explore the possibilities! Click Here! Dead Sea Salt Beauty and skin care from the Dead Sea. Coupon code HAARETZ for 10% off! Junkyard Junk a car - get free towing nationwide and a tax-deductible receipt. Holiday Inn and Crown Plaza Israel Lowest internet rate Guaranteed at ichotelsgroup.com !

Home | TV | Print Edition | Diplomacy | Opinion | Arts & Leisure | Sports | Jewish World | Underground | Site rules |

© Copyright  Haaretz. All rights reserved