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An agreement to renew visits by Israeli schoolchildren to Poland to learn about the Holocaust has been criticized as whitewashing the role played by some Poles in the murder of Jews. Last month the Polish and Israeli governments agreed to renew the school trips but the details were only published last week, sparking major criticism in Israel and from international Holocaust scholars. Under the terms of the agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the Israeli and Polish parliaments, each Israeli delegation must now visit one site from a list of 32 recommended sites that stress the Polish narrative of the war. The sites include museums and memorial sites that document crimes committed by the Germans against non-Jewish Poles and even sites that commemorate Poles who participated in the murder of Jews.  KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Jeremy Leigh, a lecturer of Jewish history at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem , author of Jewish Journeys  and an educational guide of Jewish trips to Poland. (Photo:Reuters