What Yad Vashem posted is profoundly disrespectful to Poles and is written in a way that misleads more than it informs. The opening claim that “Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge” is not only historically incorrect but shifts responsibility away from the actual perpetrator. It implies that something about Poland itself caused this measure, when in reality the policy was created, ordered, and enforced entirely by Germany. Poland had been completely conquered by Germany in September 1939. The Polish state had been destroyed, the government was in exile, and the country was under the total control of German occupation authorities. The decree mentioned in the post was issued by Hans Frank, a German official, acting within the German Generalgouvernement. Every element of the armband requirement was German in origin, purpose and enforcement. Failure to mention Germany even once in a message about a German policy carried out by a German governor on occupied Polish territory is not a minor oversight. It shifts the weight of responsibility from the perpetrator to the soil on which the crime occurred. It is similar to describing a lynching in Alabama as something “America” did without identifying who carried it out and who created the system that allowed it. Everyone would immediately see the distortion. The same standard must apply here. The Germans imposed the armband rule on 23 November 1939. Poland had no legislative power, no ability to intervene and no control over any aspect of daily life. Presenting this as a “Poland first” event suggests that Poles or Polish society had something to do with the decision. They did not. They were themselves victims of occupation, mass terror, executions and forced labor. Millions of Polish citizens, both Jewish and non Jewish, were murdered by the same German regime. It is deeply disappointing that Yad Vashem, an institution that should uphold the highest standards of historical precision, continues to allow these kinds of ambiguities. Its mission requires clarity, accuracy and moral responsibility. Yet again we see the same pattern of presenting German crimes on occupied Polish land as if they were characteristics of Poland rather than actions of Germany. Hans Frank was German. The Generalgouvernement was German. The decree was German. The penalties were German. Poland did not order this. Poland could not have ordered this. Germany did this. If the Holocaust is to be remembered truthfully, the perpetrators must always be named truthfully. To do anything less is not only misleading but disrespectful to the historical record and to the Polish victims who suffered and died under the same machinery of German terror.