During World War II, the German Nazis built and staffed numerous concentration camps on Polish soil. These camps were all built and manned by the Nazis. Occasionally, American media outlets have ignorantly and unfairly characterized these as “Polish Concentration Camps.” NOTHING could be further from the truth!
The Kosciuszko Foundation has taken up the cause, educating major American news outlets about the issue and urging them to modify their stylesheets to ensure that such unfair, inaccurate, and misleading characterizations cease. Their latest “win” in this battle was when the New York Times apologized for a misleading caption and corrected it–and have promised to modify their style sheet so such a gross injustice does not happen again.
But, other media outlets have been slow to respond. You can join well over 300,000 people by signing the Kosciuszko Fondation’s online petiton here: http://www.thekf.org/events/news/petition/. I’ve signed it. Won’t you join me in helping make the news media accurate and accountable in its treatment of Poland and Polish People? Sign today!
If you’d like to read a bit more about this, and how the Wall Street Journal joined the bandwagon of truth on this issue, read this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-storozynski/the-wall-street-journal-u_b_789327.html.
Thank you for promoting the Kosciuszko Foundation’s online petition. If you know anyone who wants to do more to combat bad media coverage of Poland then please do give them my details. The Polish media Issues group is almost 7 years old. We have been involved in fighting over 1,200 media issues with around 2/3 success rate. Our latest project is a series of booklets on media issues related to WWII and Poland such as usage of “Polish concentration camps”, failure to say Poland was an occupied country and Poles as victims in the camps. May be if you have time you can visit our website and download the first booklet about the BBC coverage of German occupied Poland.
The term ‘Nazi/German Concentration Camps in Poland’ is not correct. The Nazi Germans established the ‘concentration camps’ on occupied soil. The camps were not Polish as implied by the comment. Please correct the error.