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Polish President Andrzej Duda signed legislation imposing jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in Holocaust crimes against humanity committed on Polish soil.

Over 3 million of Poland's 3.4 million Jews were murdered by Nazis in death camps including Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor, accounting for approximately half of all European Holocaust deaths.

Approximately 6,700 Poles were commemorated by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial for rescuing Jews, the largest number of any country.

Illinois Senate condemns Poland's legislation as an attempt to whitewash history and violates freedom of speech, which must not be criminalized.

Senate affirms that open discussion of Holocaust history is essential to ensuring such atrocities never occur again.