Barbara Nowacka apologized for the mistake made during her speech at the international conference "We Are the Memory. Teaching History is Learning to Talk" in Kraków, southern Poland.
The event, held on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was attended by members of teacher unions from Education International, as well as experts in historical education at memorial sites and museums.
The meeting, organized by the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP), aimed to "honor the memory of the victims and exchange experiences and ideas on teaching about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and fascism in schools," as confirmed by the Ministry of Education.
Minister Nowacka apologizes for misuse of term 'Polish Nazis'
Barbara Nowacka during her speech stated that "Polish Nazis built camps on German-occupied territory, which were labor camps and later became extermination camps."
After the conference, the politician clarified that this was a mistake and the correct statement should have been: "On the German-occupied Polish territory, the Nazis built camps, which were labor camps and later became extermination camps."
Nowacka apologized for the "obvious slip of the tongue" and reaffirmed the historical accuracy of her statement.
The opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), is calling for the resignation of Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka over her remark.
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