Thousands of Polish nationalists marched to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw on Saturday, protesting that the U.S. is putting pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust.
Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the U.S. Embassy, in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday.
"Why should we have to pay money today when nobody gives us anything?" said 22-year-old Kamil Wencwel."Americans only think about Jewish and not Polish interests."," using the Hebrew word for Poland. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki echoed the feelings of the protesters at a campaign rally Saturday, saying that it is Poles who deserve compensation.
Many of the properties of both Jews and non-Jews were destroyed during the war or were looted and later nationalized by the communist regime that followed.
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