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Fast Forward Polish Government Minister Walks Back ‘Polocaust’ Museum Plan
(JTA) — A “Polocaust” museum dedicated to non-Jewish Polish victims of the Nazis will not be built, a Polish government minister who supported the idea said. Deputy Culture Minister Jaroslaw Sellin on Monday walked back his support of the idea, floated last week by writer and scholar Marek Kochan in the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, saying it…
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Fast Forward ‘Righteous’ Poles Ask Israel And Poland To Return To ‘Path Of Reconciliation’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A letter signed by a group of 50 Poles honored by Yad Vashem with the title of Righteous Among the Nations appeals to the governments of both Israel and Poland to return “to the path of dialogue and reconciliation.” “Please do not write the history anew,” reads the letter sent Monday…
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News 75 Years Too Late, Poland Bans The Holocaust
“Don’t blame us for genocide, or we’ll kill you,” warns premier Alfred E. Duda. For more on the story that is rocking the nation, click here.
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Fast Forward Polish Senator Suspended For Nazi Propaganda Video — Set To Klezmer Music
(JTA) — Poland’s ruling party suspended a senator who posted online footage from a Nazi propaganda movie depicting violence against Jews to the sounds of klezmer music. The Law and Justice party suspended Waldemar Bonkowski Thursday over his posting of the video on Facebook earlier this week, amid an acrimonious argument between many Poles and…
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Culture Her Stunningly Intimate Photographs Of Hasidic Life
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. On the coldest day of the year, the Polish photographer Agnieszka Traczewska stands in a snowbound forest an hour’s car ride from Krakow. Dressed in thermal pants and a black scarf, Traczewska has lost track of time in her quest to get a shot of her usually…
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Opinion Is Hating Poles The New Bigotry Of the Day?
Tensions between Jews and Poles are at an all time high over a new Polish law that would would make it illegal — and punishable by up to three years in prison — to say that the Polish government or nation took part in the Holocaust. Diaspora Jews and Israelis alike have been quick to…
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The Schmooze Isla Fisher Wins ‘Funniest Poland Holocaust Bill Protest,’ By Going Skiing
Human charm-machine Isla Fisher, star of “Wedding Crashers” and spouse of Sacha Baron Cohen, is icing out the Polish government over the nation’s controversial new Holocaust bill. The bill, which passed on Thursday in the Polish senate, would make it illegal to blame any Polish people for any crimes related to the Holocaust. Fisher, an…
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Breaking News Poland’s PM Said Jews Partnered With Nazis. Scholars Say He Distorted History.
(JTA) — The row between Poland and Israel about the Holocaust reached new heights this week after Poland’s prime minister said that the genocide had not only Polish, Ukrainian and German perpetrators, but Jewish ones as well. Addressing a new law that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes, Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview Saturday…
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