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Fast Forward 2 Polish Right-Wing Ministers Blasted Over ‘Protocols’
The Anti-Defamation League has criticized two Polish government officials for their failure to denounce the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “We are disappointed that two senior government ministers passed up on opportunities this past week to state unequivocally that ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ is an anti-Semitic fiction,” said Andrew Srulevitch,…
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Fast Forward Incoming Polish Defense Minister Praised Anti-Semitic ‘Protocols’
The Anti-Defamation League has called upon the new Polish Defense Minister to apologize and retract 2002 comments about the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” On Monday, the ADL charged Polish Defense Minister-designate, Antoni Macierewicz, with making an offensive anti-Semitic response to a caller during a broadcast on Radio Maryja, a notoriously anti-Semitic radio…
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Fast Forward Lodz Gets First New Torah Scroll Since Holocaust
The Jewish community of the Polish city of Lodz received its first new Torah scroll since World War II, its rabbi said. The scroll, donated to the community by the British Jewish philanthropists Hilton and Louise Nathanson, was introduced on Monday during a special ceremony in the city’s synagogue, the rabbi of the Jewish Community…
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Fast Forward Roman Polanski Extradition Is Rejected by Polish Court
A Polish court said on Friday that it rejected a U.S. request to extradite film-maker Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex conviction. The decision is not legally binding, as the prosecutors can now appeal the ruling. Should the court make a legally binding decision to grant the U.S. request, it will be up to…
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Fast Forward Polish City of Bialystok Allows High Rise on Jewish Cemetery Site
A meat production plant in Poland can build a high-rise apartment building on the grounds of a Jewish cemetery. The Bialystok City Council rejected a zoning plan on Monday that would have prevented the plant’s expansion proposal. The vote was 12-8 with one abstention. “In the center of Bialystok there were six cemeteries,” council member…
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The Schmooze Talking Polish Underground and World War II With Joshua Zimmerman
“I am always explaining — often to American Jews — that not all Poles were anti-Semites,” I told Joshua Zimmerman Yeshiva University Associate Professor of History and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish Studies” and author of the just published [Cambridge University Press] “The Polish Underground and the Jews…
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Fast Forward Polish Soldiers Mount Hunt for Lost Nazi Treasure Train
Polish military personnel on Friday began inspecting and photographing the site where authorities suspect a Nazi-era train, possibly carrying guns and looted jewels, may be buried. Soldiers in uniforms identifying them as members of a de-mining unit walked around the area, talked to local officials and took pictures, a Reuters photographer said. There was no…
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Fast Forward Poles Downplay Nazi Treasure Train Expectations
The Polish governor of the province in which a fabled Nazi train loaded with stolen gold and riches reportedly has been located tried to lower expectations of the discovery. Tomasz Smolarz, provincial governor of Lower Silesia in south west Poland, also announced that the alleged location of the train car’s discovery has been sealed off…
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