Katarzyna Markusz
By Katarzyna Markusz
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Fast Forward 11 Nude Auschwitz Protesters Who Killed Sheep And Stripped Charged With Desecration
WARSAW (JTA) – Seven men and four women who slaughtered a sheep, stripped off their clothes and chained themselves to the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp have been charged with desecrating a monument. The Polish, Belorussian and German protesters gathered Friday afternoon next to the gate, which bears the sign reading “Arbeit macht frei,”…
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Fast Forward Warsaw Residents Burn Effigy Of Jewish Woman
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A group of Warsaw residents celebrated the first day of spring by burning the effigy of a Jewish woman. A video from last week’s incident was removed from YouTube. A Polish prosecutor reportedly will investigate the incident, the Wporst news website reported. The recording featured a group called “Conscience of the…
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Fast Forward Polish Jews Push For Return Of Those Expelled In Soviet Purge Of 1968
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) Forty-nine years after Polish authorities expelled about 20,000 Jews from the country, representatives of Polish Jewry point out that most of these people have not yet received back their citizenship. Golda Tencer, director of the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw, and the Shalom Foundation, organized a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating the anti-Semitic campaign…
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Fast Forward American Jewish Committee Official Quits Over $400 Shoplifted Cosmetics
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — An American Jewish Committee official in Warsaw — who twice served as Bulgaria’s ambassador to the United States — was detained for stealing cosmetics at the Polish capital’s airport. Police said Elena Poptodorova, the director of the AJC’s Warsaw office for Central Europe, admitted her guilt after stepping out of a duty-free…
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Fast Forward Sobibor Museum Closed As Mass Graves Protected With Renovations
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Sobibor Museum located on the grounds of the former Nazi death camp will be closed to visitors during planned construction work including protection of mass graves containing the ashes of victims of the camp. This is the first stage of the international project to create a memorial on the grounds…
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Fast Forward Polish Official May Go To Jail For Letting Old Jewish School Building Get Razed
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish conservator is facing a prison term for allowing the demolition of a former Jewish school building in central Poland. The Prosecutor’s Office in Konin this week charged the conservator, identified as Janusz T. in Polish news reports, for abuse of power by a public official. Janusz headed up a…
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Fast Forward Krakow JCC Poland To Create Pluralistic Jewish Nursery School
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The JCC of Krakow has received a $500,000 grant from the New York City-based Eric and Erica Schwartz Family Foundation, the largest single grant awarded to a Polish Jewish organization in the last 20 years, The funds will support the creation of an Early Childhood Center at JCC Krakow located in…
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Fast Forward Polish Police Raid Anti-Xenophobia Center
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – Police raided the offices of the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior in Warsaw. The search by police on Friday came at the request of the Bialystok prosecutors’ office, which said it was undertaken in order to “find documentation on activity related to the commission of offenses.” “This is an…
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