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News Letter From Warsaw On The Ghetto Uprising Anniversary
On a warm and cloudless spring day, Warsaw residents and Jews from abroad today remembered the ghetto uprising that began on this day in 1943. One in three or four people you passed on the streets in the center of the city seemed to be wearing the yellow paper daffodils being handed out by young…
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Yiddish World Why Was Historian Who Blames Jews For Complicity with Nazis Considered For Humanitarian Prize?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Jeffrey Gottlieb is getting fifteen minutes of fame for the second time in his life. The co-founder of the “Polish-Jewish Dialogue Committee,” Gottlieb has spoken with Jewish organizations and news outlets this week to explain why his group bestowed its “Jan Karski Humanitarian Award” on Ewa Kurek,…
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Fast Forward Polish President Claims New Holocaust Law Won’t Block Survivors’ Accounts
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The presidents of Poland and Israel met near the Auschwitz death camp, where they held talks together and then led the March of the Living. Polish President Andrzej Duda assured his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, on Thursday afternoon prior to the two-mile march from the Auschwitz barracks to the Birkenau death…
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Community These Children Didn’t Survive The Holocaust, But Their Art Still Gives Me Hope
At first glance, the drawings made me smile. Small, confident hands had etched them, in haphazard strokes; colors crossed the rainbow spectrum, and people looked less like humans than like blobs. They reminded me of my childhood, of my cousins, of the kids I babysit. But then I stepped closer to the glass cases and…
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Fast Forward Poland Creates New Holiday To Remember Poles Who Saved Jews During WWII
(JTA) — Poland observed a new national holiday to remember Poles who saved Jews during World War II. President Andrzej Duda initiated the National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews earlier this month. It was observed on Saturday, March 24. On March 24, 1944, the Germans murdered the Ulma family – Józef, Wiktoria, and…
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Opinion I Suffered Anti-Semitism In Poland. Why Won’t Netanyahu Condemn It?
The Israeli Foreign Ministry held its sixth annual Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism this week in Jerusalem. As part of the event, Natan Sharansky, the Soviet refusenik turned Israeli politician, made a bold claim against a growing problem. “There are those who would want to make common cause with far-right, racist parties in Europe because…
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Fast Forward Law On Holocaust Rhetoric Unconstitutional, Polish Attorney General Says
(JTA) — The Polish attorney general’s office described as partly unconstitutional a law passed last month that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes. Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro published a statement on the law Thursday. The legislation, which came into force earlier this month, imposes fines or up to three years in jail on anyone who…
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Fast Forward Father Of Polish Prime Minister: Jews Gladly Moved To Ghettos
(JTA) — A former Polish politician who is the father of the country’s prime minister said that Jews during the Holocaust moved to ghettos of their own accord to get away from non-Jewish Poles. Kornel Morawiecki, a former senator whose son, Mateusz, became prime minister last year, made the remark in an interview published Tuesday by the online magazine…
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