( JTA) — Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.

The program also featured a universal symbol of remembrance — the lighting of candles. The first six candles in the candelabra honored the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

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Nawrocki heads the Institute of National Remembrance ... fight “all the disgusting attacks” on Poland by Holocaust scholars, and has previously promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah ...

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European leaders gathered in Strasbourg to honor Holocaust survivors and reaffirm support for Jewish life, marking the 80th ...

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Nawrocki told Braun that he would fight “all the disgusting attacks” on Poland by Holocaust scholars, and had previously promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in the ...