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Robert Thomson
Managing Editor
Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street,
New York, NY 10281
Dear Mr. Thomson:
This letter is to inform you that the Board of Officers of the NYPD
Pulaski Association (“Board”), a fraternity of active and retired
Police Officers of Polish and Eastern European descent, has voted
unanimously to condemn the Wall Street Journal (“WSJ”) for its
improper use of the adjective “Polish” to describe German Nazi death
camps in German occupied Poland during World War II. The Board
considers this incorrect use of the adjective “Polish” as evidencing
a complete lack of integrity, common decency and professionalism by
the editors of the WSJ.
The Board underscores that the adjective “Polish” means “relating to
Poland, its people and culture.” To refresh the WSJ’s memory, it was
Poland that was invaded by the German Nazis on September 1,1939 and
it was the Polish nation that was occupied by the German Nazis
during World War II. The German Nazis put their concentration camps
in Poland. Poland, its people and culture did not. Millions of
Polish men, women and children perished in the Nazi German
concentration camps.
Consequently, the WSJ’s use of the adjective “Polish” to describe
German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is fundamentally
erroneous, and as such, is acutely painful and highly offensive to
all Poles. The WSJ’s implication that “German Nazi” concentration
camps were “Polish” is utterly reprehensible.
To compound the insult to all Poles, not only was the adjective
“Polish” used twice in several months in two separate articles when
describing Nazi German concentration camps in Poland, but the
editors apparently saw nothing wrong with the blatantly inaccurate
use of this terminology even after it was pointed out to them by
Polish
Americans. The WSJ’s pattern of falsely referring to “Nazi German”
concentration camps as “Polish” continues despite the vigorous
outcry by New York’s Polish American community that such use of the
adjective “Polish” is glaringly erroneous. Moreover, the WSJ’s
editors have refused to correct its website versions of the two
aforementioned articles and also have declined to take any
precautions to prevent any future use of the adjective “Polish” when
referring to “Nazi German”.
The Board further informs the WSJ that it is appealing to other
organizations to join the Board in denouncing the unforgivable
insensitivity that the WSJ editors have shown to the immense
suffering and loss of life experienced by the Polish people under
German Nazi occupation.
Very truly yours,
The Executive Board of the NYPD Pulaski Association
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