The Polish President will not attend the Jerusalem Holocaust Forum due to the conflict with Russia • But this does not prevent him from commenting on the Kremlin's distributions on the issue in recent weeks

• Polish President Andrzej Duda // Archive photo: Reuters

A week before the official ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Polish President Andrzej Duda has pushed back historical versions of the Second World War by the Kremlin in recent weeks, stating: "We, the Poles, are the keepers of the widely known historical truth in Poland. Thanks to school education and the direct opinions of our parents, parents and other citizens here. "

The historic conflict between Poland and Russia over the Second World War has saddened the "Holocaust Forum", which is convened in the coming days in Israel and canceled the Polish president's arrival in Jerusalem.

In a message Duda sent to participants in a conference on anti-Semitism in the city of Krakow, near the former Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination site, Duda refrained from directly attacking the Russians, reducing their responsibility to break out of WWII and accusing Poles of anti-Semitism and cooperation with the Nazis.

However, Duda made it clear that the Poles - Jews and non-Jews - were victims of the Nazi terror regime. "In our country, which has been occupied for more than five years, the entire society has been under mass terror, oppression and extermination," says Duda.

"The suffering they suffered in ghettos and camps, transports, and execution sites was brutally and brutally committed as the Germans pushed their hatred, contempt, anti-Semitism and racism to new heights. And many of them were murdered with those who tried to save. "

"We are responsible for the memory and the passing of knowledge on all these tragic events that became a common experience for Jews and Poles during those terrible times. It is our duty to the victims, the Holocaust survivors, those who saved them and murdered with those who tried to save. We cannot let the Holocaust be gone. This knowledge for generations to come, "concluded the Polish president.