Katarzyna Markusz
By Katarzyna Markusz
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Fast Forward Polish government to give $50,000 to nationalist website headed by student who has made antisemitic comments
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polish government will give $50,000 to a nationalist organization headed by a student who was suspended from the University of Warsaw partly for hate speech against Jews. Konrad Smuniewski’s Nowy Ład(or Nowy Order) website will receive the grant as part of the government’s annual funds to nongovernmental organizations. In 2016,…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum employees discover notes in shoes of children
WARSAW (JTA) — Employees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum discovered handwritten inscriptions in shoes belonging to children who were sent to the Nazi death camp in Poland. The discoveries were made in the course of efforts to preserve the shoes on display at the museum. One inscription identified a shoe as belonging to Amos Steinberg,…
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Fast Forward Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A wall of the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, was spray-painted with the letters “AJ,” likely meaning “Anti-Jude,” or anti-Jewish. The wall’s Star of David was painted over as well. Police are investigating; there are no suspects. According to the cemetery keeper, Adam Bartosz, because the wall…
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Fast Forward Former Polish Priest Indicted For Hate Speech And Holocaust Denial
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A former priest involved in Poland’s nationalist movement has been indicted on hate speech and Holocaust denial charges. The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, in western Poland, brought three indictments against Jacek Miedlar. Another claims that he insulted the late prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Miedlar, who pleaded not…
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Fast Forward Pelosi-led Congressional delegation visits Krakow Jewish Center
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the Jewish community center in Krakow along with a congressional delegation and received honorary membership. The bipartisan delegation led by Pelosi visited JCC Krakow on Tuesday after visiting the site of the former Auschwitz Nazi camp and touring the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in advance of…
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Culture Poland Tussles With Netflix Over Concentration Camp Map In Holocaust Series
JTA — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings regarding “historical inaccuracies in film productions on this platform.” The letter was in response to the series “The Devil Next Door,” which tells the story of Ivan Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian guard at the Treblinka death camp. One episode of the…
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Fast Forward Southern Polish Town Burns Effigy Of Judas, Made To Look Like Hasidic Jew
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A town in southern Poland reenacted the custom of casting judgement on Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus, using a life-size effigy of a stereotypical Jew with a hooked nose and sidelocks. The event in the town of Pruchnik, called “Judgment over Judas,” took place on Friday afternoon. On a pole…
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Breaking News American Jewish Committee Reopens Warsaw Office
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The American Jewish Committee returned to Warsaw after eight years. AJC on Monday opened a new office in the city dedicated to serving Poland and six other Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. “Welcome home!” Andrzej Folwarczny, founder of the Forum for Dialogue and recipient…
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