Ronen Bergman caused the storm with a question asked at the press conference to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. He spoke, among others about his mother. Internet users have checked the details and now they are asking: did the journalist lie?

I come from Israel. I’m an Israeli journalist and a contributing writer for the New York Times. Sorry for being a little personal. Both my parents were born in Poland—my late mother and my father. My mother received a prize from the Polish Ministry of Education when she was five. Then the war started and they lost much of their (respective) families, because their neighbors—their Polish neighbors—snitched to the Gestapo that they were holding Jews. My mother was able to save much of her family because she heard during the night that her neighbors were going to tell that they have Jews in their vicinity to the SS the next morning. After the war, my mother swore that she would never speak Polish for the rest of her life, not even a single word

– Bergman said.

It’s hard to verify the whole story, which is rather anecdotal, but there is one fact that you can check. Did his mother actually receive the prize? It could have been difficult because, during the war, she was … five years old. So what did she do before the war, probably just after birth, that the minister decided to honor her? Elsewhere, Bergman wrote:

My mother, may her memory be a blessing, had to bury her father in the snow, quietly, so the Nazis don’t find them. She was five years old at the time.

Polish Journalist and tv presenter Magdalena Ogórek asked the journalist a questionon on Twitter, but for now the Israeli journalist is mysteriously silent:

Dear Sir @ronenbergman, how is it possible that your mother was 5 years old during the IIWW but before the war she received a medal from the minister of education? Explain me please.

 

Original article: https://niezlomni.com/izraelski-dziennikarz-ktory-pytal-premiera-morawieckiego-klamal-temat-swojej-matki-sprawdzono-szczegoly-cos-sie-zgadza/