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Fast Forward Polish Soccer Fans Burn Jews in Effigy as Rival Teams Battle
– Several dozen soccer fans in Poland hung a banner containing anti-Semitic language at a train station in Lodz at a demonstration that featured the burning of Jews in effigy. Approximately 50 men were photographed on a bridge at the Lodz Kaliska station on Aug. 26 with a banner reading “19.08, today the Jews got a…
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Fast Forward Treasure Hunters Hopeful of Unearthing Lost Nazi Gold Train
Treasure-hunters said on Wednesday they were optimistic they would find a Nazi-era train believed to be hidden underground in southern Poland as they launched a second day of excavations. According to folklore, the train – dubbed by Polish media the “gold train” because it was carrying jewels and guns looted by the Nazis ahead of…
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Fast Forward Poland Wants To Jail Users of Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
The Polish government proposed a bill that would make the use of terms like “Polish death camps” a crime punishable by jail time. The bill, which the government put forward Tuesday but has not been passed into law, would prohibit assigning blame to Poland for the actions of Nazi Germany. Historians and artists would be…
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Fast Forward Will Treasure Hunters Solve Mystery of Lost Nazi ‘Gold Train’ Once and for All?
Polish and German treasure hunters have started digging at a site in southwest Poland where they believe a Nazi-era train rumored to have gone missing is hidden – despite the skepticism of experts. Andreas Koper and Piotr Richter said last year they had located the train buried underground. According to local legend, it was carrying…
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Fast Forward Polish President Pens Passionate Eulogy for Sobibor Survivor
– In an unusual gesture, the president of Poland published a long statement eulogizing a Holocaust survivor who was among a handful of people to have escaped the Sobibor death camp in the country’s east. Andrzej Duda published his 650-word eulogy of Filip Białowicz on the president’s official website on Friday. “We are saying goodbye to…
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News When NATO’s Man in Poland Ran Anti-Semitic Paper
The recent NATO summit, held for the first time ever in Warsaw, was a triumph for Poland’s defense minister, Antoni Macierewicz. The United States promised it would deploy American soldiers on Polish soil, near Russia’s border. Macierewicz shook hands with world leaders, including President Obama, who graced him with a smile. He won praise from…
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Fast Forward Historians Condemn Poland’s Backtracking on Poles’ WW2-Era Murder of Jews
A group of Poland’s most prestigious Holocaust historians has condemned recent official efforts to deny or downplay the role of non-Jewish Poles in murdering Polish Jews during and immediately after World War II. The Polish Center for Holocaust Research, which is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences, issued its condemnation on Friday. The center’s…
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Community Walking Through Schindler’s List
Of course I have seen Schindler’s List, the 1993 Holocaust movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Who hasn’t? Well, my 18-year-old daughter, Esther. So, we huddled on the bed in our tiny hotel room in Amsterdam, next to one of the many canals, and watched it on our laptop computer. After being in Krakow, watching this…
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