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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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Fast Forward Polish Delegation Comes To Israel To Discuss Controversial Holocaust Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Polish delegation arrived in Israel to come to an understanding between the two countries on the controversial Holocaust law. The delegation will meet on Thursday with a team headed by the Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Yuval Rotem. Both delegations are made up of historians, journalists, lawyers and diplomats, the…
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Community I’m An American Jewish Teenager — And Poland’s Holocaust Bill Worries Me
As human beings, we have a responsibility to narrate the past as it was; not as we’d like it to be and certainly not as we believe it should’ve been. It is true that sometimes the past is complicated, sometimes it doesn’t show someone in the most favorable light, and sometimes it is simply ugly,…
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Fast Forward Polish Firm Sells ‘Hitler Socks,’ Renames Them After Auschwitz Museum Complains
A Polish company is under fire for trying to sell socks that look like Adolf Hitler — and then trying to hide the evidence. Nanushki, a company that specializes in friendly-looking socks, offers the footwear on its website. The company originally claimed that the “Adolf” socks were designed “to bring order in the socks drawer,”…
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