The Yad Vashem Museum Holocaust memorial institution in Jerusalem has used the words "most unfortunate" to describe the Polish Senate's approval of a law against the mention of the state's role in the Holocaust. A statement by Yad Vashem said, "This law is liable to blur historical truths due to limitations it places on expressions regarding the complicity of segments of the Polish population in crimes against Jews committed by its own people, either directly or indirectly, on Polish soil during the Holocaust."
Stressing that it was erroneous to refer to concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland as Polish, the statement says, "The law passed last night in the Polish Senate jeopardizes the free and open discussion of the part of the Polish people in the persecution of the Jews at the time."