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Fast Forward Polish Nationalist Protester Faces Prison for Burning Jew in Effigy
Polish prosecutors indicted for incitement a construction contractor from the western city of Wroclaw who burned an effigy of a Jew at a protest rally against Muslim immigration. Piotr Rybak, an entrepreneur from Wroclaw, may face as long as two years in jail if convicted of the charges levelled against him last week for his…
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Fast Forward Human Bones Unearthed at Plaszow Concentration Camp in Poland
A construction crew unearthed bones at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, near Krakow. The workers were repairing a decades-old gas pipeline on the property last week adjacent to the former funeral home of a Jewish cemetery on which the camp was established during World War II. The Jewish community of…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Saves Jewish Cemetery From Developer
A town in central Poland will protect a Jewish cemetery from being developed into a residential complex with underground parking. The City Council of Grodzisk Mazowiecki has leased the land to the Jewish cemetery within its historic boundaries from developer Futura G.M., preventing the company from building a residential complex on the land. Local authorities…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders’ Ancestral Hometown in Poland Cheers Presidential Run
Residents of the Polish town where Bernie Sanders’ father was born are watching the Jewish candidate’s presidential run with pride. Many citizens of Slopnice, in southern Poland, viewed the results of the Democratic caucus in Iowa with interest on Tuesday, according to Agence France Press, the day after Sanders narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton. “There’s…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Plans To Visit Auschwitz During Trip to Poland in July
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is expected to visit the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during his visit to Poland in July, the Vatican said. The Vatican spokesman, speaking during the presentation of a book by a 90-year-old Italian Holocaust survivor on Wednesday night, said the visit was “highly probable.” Francis will be in the…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Ceremony To Mark 71st Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation
WARSAW, Poland — President Andrzej Duda of Poland and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia are expected to attend the ceremony at the Auschwitz memorial marking the 71st anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation. Dozens of survivors and their relatives will also be on hand for Wednesday’s commemoration. Red Army troops liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Remembers Its Jewish Residents Murdered in Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland – A Polish town unveiled a monument to thousands of its Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The monument unveiled Friday in Suwalki is at the site of the northeastern town’s synagogue destroyed in 1956 after being severely damaged by the Germans during the Nazi occupation. Its inscription reads, in Polish, Hebrew and English:…
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Fast Forward 9 Israelis Busted for Price-Fixing of Death Camp Trips
Israeli investigators have busted a ring of travel agency officials they say are suspected of price fixing for school trips to Nazi death camp sites in Poland, police said. Nine people were arrested, spokeswoman Luba Samri said in Tuesday, from various travel agencies suspected of colluding during a government tender to fix prices to prevent…
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