Israel marked Yom Hashoah, its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Thursday in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

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AP willingly accepted the censorship of the Reich Propaganda Ministry and signed the Nazi Schriftleitergesetz (editor’s law), promising not to publish anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home,” says Harriet Scharnberg.

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Princeton professor Jan Tomasz Gross said Poland’s new stance on dissociating itself from the Holocaust is “a step back to the dark ages of anti-Semitism,” while he decried other anti-democratic policies adopted by the new Polish government.

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