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Fast Forward Archeologists Unearth Foundations Of Polish Synagogue Razed In 1938
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Archaeologists in Western Poland found the foundations of the New Synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938. The ruins found in the Polish city of Wroclaw belonged to the second largest synagogue in pre-war Germany. The archaeological digs are being conducted with the financial support of German President Frank-Walter Steimeier. The synagogue…
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Fast Forward Polish Councilman Wants To Censor References To Pogroms In Bialystok
(JTA) — A Polish alderman is seeking the removal of references to anti-Semitic violence in the history of Bialystok from a graphic novel about the city. Marek Chojnowski, who represents the ruling Law and Justice party on the Bialystok City Council, was quoted this week by the news site Onet as protesting references to a 1906…
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Fast Forward Polish Fighter Who Bared Auschwitz Atrocities Gets Warsaw Monument
(JTA) — A monument to a non-Jewish Polish resistance fighter Capt. Witold Pilecki was unveiled in Warsaw. The monument to the man who during World War II allowed himself to be captured and sent to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp so that he could report on the atrocities there was unveiled on Saturday in the presence…
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Fast Forward NBA All-Star Ray Allen Visits Auschwitz
Shortly after being sworn in as a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, former NBA champion Ray Allen traveled to Poland this week visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and other Holocaust-related sites. Allen, one of the greatest shooters in basketball history, became passionate about Holocaust education after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington…
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Yiddish World Reimagining the Lively Character of Pre-War Smocza Street
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. For the past few months I’ve been living in a place that no longer exists. I may be sleeping in my own bed in Tel Aviv, but every morning, at the light of dawn, I steal across the borders of time to a thriving Jewish street in…
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Fast Forward Polish Honorary Consul Dismissed For Photoshopped Picture Of Donald Tusk As SS Officer
Earlier today the Polish Honorary Consul in Akron, Ohio (one of twenty such posts in the United States) was dismissed for allegedly posting a photoshopped image of European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as an SS officer. The honorary consul, Maria Szonert-Binienda, denies the charges, stating to the AP, “I did not make a photo…
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Fast Forward Report: Poland Only EU Country Without Law Returning Jewish Property
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A think tank that monitors Holocaust restitution issues reported that Poland is the only European Union nation that does not comply with an international understanding allowing for the return of Jewish property seized during World War II. The report by the European Shoah Legacy Institute notes that the countries of Western…
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Culture Yet Another Polish Culture Director Removed From His Post By The PiS Government
“The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn’t called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.” So writes Umberto Eco in his essay “Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare.” I very much doubt that Piotr Glinski,…
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