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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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Fast Forward Poland Gives High Honor to a Top Palestinian Official
WARSAW, Poland – The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Information, Mahmoud Khalifa, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, one of the highest honors that can be given to a foreigner. Khalifa is a former activist of the Palestine Liberation Organization. For many years he lived in Poland and is a graduate…
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Fast Forward Poland Dismisses "Silly" EU Criticism of Media Regs, Cites Nazis
WARSAW – Poland’s justice minister dismissed an EU commissioner’s criticism of new media regulations as “silly” in a confrontational letter that marked a low in the new government’s relations with the bloc and the commissioner’s home Germany. Minister Zbigniew Ziobro questioned Berlin’s own record on media freedoms and alluded to Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland…
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Fast Forward 2 Brit Teens Charged in Auschwitz Artifacts Theft
WARSAW, Poland — Two 17-year-old British boys face up to 10 years in prison for stealing items from the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland. An indictment was filed Tuesday with the Regional Court in Krakow. Museum guards stopped the teenagers in June while they were on a trip with the independent Perse School…
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News Poland Turns Hard to Right — and Jews Wind Up in Crosshairs
When some 50,000 people turned out in Warsaw recently to protest a plan by Poland’s ruling party to pack the nation’s constitutional court, the hard right-wing political faction responded quickly with a counter-demonstration of its own. Its counter-protest featured, among other things, a placard that mocked those claiming to defend democracy as “the committee to…
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Fast Forward Poland Debunks Nazi Gold Train Claims
Scientists have debunked claims that a Nazi-era train carrying guns and gold is located in a tunnel in southern Poland. Amateur treasure hunters Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter first made the claims in September, sparking worldwide intrigue, with journalists from all over descending on a mining town. However after a team of scientists spent a…
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Culture Poland Looks to Hollywood To Transform Wartime Image (and Shift Holocaust Narrative)
WARSAW — Poland’s new conservative rulers think their country faces an image problem abroad and they want Hollywood to produce a Polish equivalent of “Braveheart” or “Pearl Harbor” to promote their country’s positive place in history. They also are looking to alter the narrative when it comes to Poland, where most of the Nazi death…
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