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Fast Forward Rabbi Has ‘No Words’ For Polish Authorities Digging Up Remains In Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) – Human remains were dug up during construction work next to a Jewish cemetery in eastern Poland. The remains were unearthed on Tuesday, during work to modernize the power grid for the city of Siemiatycze. The ground where the remains were uncovered is adjacent to the fence of the Jewish cemetery. The case is…
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Community WATCH: Does Anti-Semitism Still Exist In Poland?
On November 11th, 60,000 protesters commemorated Polish Independence Day in a scene reminiscent of Charlottesville. As I later wrote in the Forward, a smaller contingency marched down my street, a part of the former Warsaw Jewish Ghetto. The march was organized in part by two self-proclaimed “radical nationalist” groups who take their name from anti-Semitic…
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Fast Forward Naked Tag Video At Nazi Gas Chamber Leads To Polish Investigation
(JTA) — Poland’s interior minister has instructed prosecutors to follow up on an investigation by groups representing Holocaust survivors on a video featuring nudity that was filmed at a former death camp in the country. The video shows several naked men and women playing a game of tag inside what its creators said was a…
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Fast Forward Why Were People Allowed To Play Naked Tag In A Nazi Gas Chamber?
(JTA) — Groups representing Holocaust survivors have asked Poland’s president to explain why artists were allowed to film a naked game of tag inside a gas chamber in the former Nazi death camp of Stutthof. On Wednesday, the Organization of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and several other groups sent the request…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Is Not Welcome In Poland Because Of His ‘Anti-Semitic Ideas’
Polish authorities have placed white nationalist and “alt-right” figurehead Richard Spencer on a list of “undesirable” people who are not welcome in the country. Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed it had “made the appropriate request… to place Spencer on the list,” according to a report in BuzzFeed News. A spokesperson for the Ministry of…
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Fast Forward Landowner Wants Polish Town To Remove Monument To Murdered Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A monument commemorating Jews murdered in a small town in southern Poland during World War II may be removed. The owner of the land on which the memorial is standing has asked the local government of Chrzanow to remove the monument. It is believed that he wants to sell or lease…
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Fast Forward ‘No Jews Allowed’ Banner Seized From Polish Hotel
(JTA) — Polish police seized a banner reading “no Jews, speculators and traitors allowed” from the entrance to a hotel that reportedly is owned by an ultranationalist who is jailed for anti-Semitic hate speech. Officers were sent Thursday night following the surfacing of images on social networks showing the banner on the gate to the…
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Opinion I Hid From Neo-Nazis In Poland. But They Found Me Online
On November 11th, 60,000 protesters assembled in Warsaw to commemorate Polish Independence Day. The march was organized in part by two self-described “radical nationalist” youth movements, both of which draw their names from anti-Semitic leagues of the 1920’s and 30’s. The protest featured torches, chants of “Sieg Heil” and “Ku Klux Klan,” and banners reading…
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