Israel - A Polish embassy official complained today about a Holocaust cartoon feature in an Israeli newspaper, charging it depicted Poles in an unfavorable light.
The cartoon depicted the story of the artist's mother escaping from Poland during World War II. One of the frames pictures Polish passengers on a train, many with drinks in their hands, harassing the young woman.
The cartoons were republished in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita today and caused an outrage, according to Piotr Trobniak, a spokesman for the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv.
"It describes the Poles as vicious drunks and in a negative way. They look very ugly and not nice. This is a very difficult issue," Trobniak said.

The editor of the newspaper denied the charges. "We aren't saying anything against the Polish people as a whole," he said. "This is a description of the people who were there at that moment in time, according to testimony of the woman who was there." [AP]