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Fast Forward The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
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Film & TV Exclusive: Jesse Eisenberg discusses filming at Majdanek in ‘A Real Pain’
The writer-director spoke of the ‘incredible privilege’ in a behind the scenes clip
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Opinion On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis
The family of a Bronx baker donates a ritual heirloom to a Warsaw museum as a gesture of remembrance and healing.
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Film & TV The real problem with ‘A Real Pain’ is that it isn’t Jewish enough
Jesse Eisenberg's movie follows a Holocaust tour and the pain of its participants, but seems to forget those things are connected
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Film & TV Why movies are tackling a real pain: memory and Holocaust tourism
The films ‘Treasure,’ ‘Delegation’ and ‘A Real Pain’ use tours of Poland as a backdrop for character studies
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News Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity
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Theater “How can neighbors turn on neighbors?” Descendants of a 1941 pogrom debate the answer
"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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News Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by the Nazis
The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade
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