Four Poles who rescued Jews during World War II were posthumously honored with the Righteous Among the Nations medals.

The medals were presented to the representatives of the families of the honored by the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament - Knesset - Yuli Edelstein.

The guest of honor was Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchcinski.Today in Krakow we are witnesses to history, this great history, which has both a personal and a universal meaning. At that time, each individual act took on a universal dimension - said the Marshal. He pointed out that the Poles currently being awarded medals They probably did not consider their act as heroism, but as a duty to fulfill a moral obligation to save another human beingThey were not allowed to give aid, despite the fact that they were facing the death penalty for giving aid. Many Poles have stood this test; more than 6,700 have been honored with the medal. Today, another four Righteous join this honorable list - he said.

Marek Kuchciński argued that it is our duty towards the state, the nation and the world to remember history, human suffering and sacrifice.

Historical memory has two meanings -. said. First, it is the recording of facts and knowledge about them. Second, worship and the creation of symbolic culture.

The truth about war is a supreme value and cannot be freely interpreted when blurring the two categories - perpetrators and victims. We must remember that the death camps were an institution of the German Reich, and the perpetrators of the Holocaust were its functionaries. Jews and Poles were victims of genocide.

It is our duty to be custodians of the truth about the Holocaust. Then the greatness of the sacrifice of the Righteous Among the Nations will be fully realized. said the Speaker.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said. The Jews are a nation that remembers. So let us remember what happened 70, 80 years ago; let us also remember the Nazi criminals who organized the slaughter of Jews...

I want to address the Polish families: do not misunderstand history. Your parents, if they kept and saved one person, in fact they saved several hundred. The survivors gave birth to children, then came grandchildren, great-grandchildren. And such a young person, a child, whom they kept maybe in the basement, maybe in the attic, was not alone there. He was present in hundreds of those who live here in the world today. We promise once again that we will never forget. We do not have the right - we have the duty to remember. argued Yuli Edelstein.

Photo: Pawel Kula