(AP-Washington Post) Emily Rose - Israel has canceled educational trips to Poland for thousands of high school students this summer, saying the Polish government is trying to control the Holocaust-studies curriculum taught to Israeli children, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday. Lapid said Poland has barred Israeli delegations from learning about the role of Polish citizens in collaborating with Nazis during the Holocaust. "They wanted to dictate what was allowed and what wasn't allowed to be taught to Israeli children who go to Poland and that we cannot agree with," he said. Holocaust researchers have collected ample evidence of Polish villagers who murdered Jews fleeing the Nazis, or Polish blackmailers who preyed on helpless Jews for financial gain. Nearly all of Poland's 3 million Jews were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. Young Israelis traditionally travel to Poland in the summer between 11th and 12th grade to tour former Nazi camps in order to learn about the Holocaust and memorialize those murdered.
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