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Fast Forward Polish Senate Approves Day Honoring ‘Righteous Gentiles’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polish Senate approved a resolution making March 24 the National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews. Polish President Andrzej Duda initiated the new national holiday. The resolution approved on Wednesday was supported by 58 senators, including 51 from the ruling Law and Justice party. Some 14 senators voted against the…
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Fast Forward Polish Senator Calls To Expel Israeli Envoy For Saying Anti-Semitism Is Rising
(JTA) — A Polish senator for the ruling party said he would not shake hands with Israel’s ambassador and that he favors her expulsion from Poland for saying anti-Semitism was on the rise there. Jan Zaryn said this during an interview published Friday by the wPolsce news site. “If anyone today thinks to equate in…
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Opinion Do Not Stand Idly By: The Holocaust Lesson Poland Hasn’t Yet Learned
Only a few years ago it seemed that the fraught narrative of Poland and its Jews was evolving from uneasy suspicion to tentative embrace. The 2014 opening of the core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, was the joyful epitome of this developing story; lauded by politicians and celebrated…
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Fast Forward Polish President Not Welcome At White House Over Holocaust Law
(JTA) — A leading news site in Poland reported that it had obtained documents suggesting that the country’s highest officials are not welcome at the White House over a law limiting discourse on World War II. The documents, which the news site Onet did not describe in its March 5 report, mean that President Andrzej…
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Fast Forward Will Poland’s Controversial New Law Lead To A Boycott Of Holocaust Tourism?
(JTA) — Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland. Like tens of thousands of Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora who go on commemorative missions each year, de Malach “didn’t exactly relish the thought of visiting Auschwitz,”…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Tour Guide’s Home Vandalized With Jewish Star, ‘Poland For The Poles’
The home of a concentration camp tour guide was vandalized in Krakow on Friday with a Star of David and a Polish nationalist message, as public tensions increase over a new law banning certain language about the Holocaust. The Italian-born guide, Diego Audero Bottero, told Polsat Media that he found the star and the messages…
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Fast Forward Polish Group Sues Newspaper In First Test Of Controversial New Holocaust Law
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A right-wing Polish group sued a newspaper in Argentina under the country’s new Holocaust law for using a photo of Polish partisans to illustrate an article about the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941. The lawsuit was filed on Friday by the Polish League Against Defamation, or the Reduta Dobrego Imienia (RDI), hours…
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News Poland Launches Charm Campaign To Defuse ‘Holocaust Law’ Tensions
Launching a last-minute damage control campaign, Polish officials have descended on Washington, trying to convince American officials, lawmakers and Jewish leaders that the uproar over Warsaw’s recent Holocaust law is no more than a “misunderstanding.” The law, which makes speaking of a “Polish Holocaust” a criminal offense, will take effect Thursday, although the country’s top…
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