After Noa Kirel's successful showing at Eurovision (a very respectable third place!) she made a statement about how this was really a victory when receiving the full twelve points from Poland after nearly the entire Kirel family was wiped out in Auschwitz during the Holocaust..
This post-Eurovision statement created a bit of a diplomatic stir. Poland got really upset by this statement of Kirel's.
Polish politicians criticized the week Holocaust education in Israel if young people in Israel think Poland was behind the Holocaust or partners with Germany in the Holocaust rather than as the victim they were.
The Polish government said they are going to be inviting Noa Kirel to Poland to understand better why she thinks about Poland this way (as part of the team of perpetrators of the Holocaust), and them to explain, and for her to see for herself how the Nazis were cruel to the Poles and to the Jews...
If I understand it correctly, Kirel's family was from Austria but they perished in Auschwitz which, as we all know, is in Poland.
I would suggest that Poland misunderstood her intention. She did not say Poland killed her family, but they were all killed in Poland. I dont know why she had to bring it up at all, the Holocaust has nothing to do with Eurovision. If she had to bring it up, she could have accused the Germans of still being anti-semites for giving her 0 points after killing her family if she wanted to refer to the Holocaust... I wonder how many points Poland will give Israel next year after this snafu..
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