Lloyd Robertson,
Chief News Anchor and Editor
CTV Television Network
PO.Box 9 Station O
Scarborough Ontario M4A 2M9

Montreal, August 10, 2004

Dear Mr.Robertson

As you may know from many protesting letters sent to Mr Robert Hurst, President of CTV News from the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland, representatives of several Polish and Jewish organizations in Poland and Canada, including our sister organization, the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada (Toronto Chapter), we are all very concerned that CTV referred in its news broadcast to the notorious Nazi death camp in Treblinka as a "Polish camp".

Instead of acknowledging his evident historical error and promising not to make it again, Mr Hurst insists on continuing to use the defamatory term "Polish concentration camps".

We do hope that someone will explain to the news director of CTV that at the time of WWII there was no Poland, the entire territory of Poland was under the occupation of the German Nazi regime and the Soviet governments. The death camp in Treblinka was on the territory ruled by the German government that did not include a single Pole, and no Pole was involved in any aspect of the Treblinka camp operations. During the 13 months of the camp's operation, the killing rate exceeded 2,000 people a day, making Treblinka the most deadly of all Nazi death camps.

Had Mr Hurst known the history of Europe during WWII, for the sake of truth.
he would certainly have expressed sorrow for this error
Sincerely yours,

Irena Bellert,
Retired McGill Professor

President of the POLISH-JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Editor of the Web site : www.Polish-Jewish-Heritage.org

cc Advisory Council: Władysław Bartoszewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Helena Datner, Eva Hoffman, Marek Edelman, Czesław Miłosz,
Dr Victor Goldbloom (Chair)