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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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Fast Forward Jewish Tombstone Fragments Found in Warsaw River
Fragments of Jewish tombstones were discovered as the level of the Vistula river in Warsaw dropped during a drought. The tombstones are thought to be from the city’s Bródno Jewish cemetery. Only 300 of the cemetery’s original 3,000 graves remain, as the rest were used for construction and reinforcing the riverbanks during the Holocaust. “The…
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News This Baby Was Born in Auschwitz — and Survived
Barbara Puc is a survivor of Auschwitz, yet she has no memory of ever having been there. Sitting in her home, Puc, a sturdy woman with short gray hair and a warm face, warned me before we even sat down, “All I know is what my mother told me.” Now 72 years old, Puc, whose…
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Fast Forward Polish Locals, Jews Commemorate Jedwabne Pogrom
The 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne was commemorated by representatives of the Jewish community and local residents, at the site of the atrocity in Poland. “I’m lucky to meet in Poland very good people, the righteous and those who do a lot for Jewish history and culture,” Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari said at Friday’s…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Hideout for Jews Preserved as Poland National Monument
Polish officials registered a rare hideout used by Jews during the Holocaust as national monument. The hideout in Rekowka, a village situated 90 miles south of Warsaw, was used by two non-Jewish families, the Skoczylas and Kosioróws, for sheltering several Jews in 1942, according to the Holocaust commemoration organization From the Depths, which facilitated the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Tombstone Fragments Pulled From Polish River
Fragments of about 100 tombstones from a Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis were removed from a riverbed in Poland. Archaeologists removed the tombstone fragments from the Warta River, located in Mstow, Silesia, on the border with the Czech Republic, Radio Poland reported Tuesday. The discovery of the fragments, identified by Hebrew-language inscriptions and Jewish…
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Fast Forward Polish Facebook Post Mocks Majdanek Memorial
Facebook users in Poland slammed a teenager living there for an offensive post directed toward a memorial at Majdanek. The post by the 17-year-old from Ukraine, identified as Wladyslaw, showed him holding up his middle finger in the direction of the Monument to Struggle and Martyrdom at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp….
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