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Fast Forward Wladislaw Bartoszewski, Righteous Polish Official Who Survived Auschwitz, Dies
Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former prisoner of Auschwitz who was named a Righteous Among the Nations, has died. Bartoszewski, who was also a social activist, journalist and historian, died on April 24 at the age of 93. Bartoszewski in 1940 was sent to Auschwitz due to his social activism. He was released…
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Fast Forward FBI Chief Apologizes for Suggesting Poland To Blame for Holocaust
Comey’s apology, which came on Monday at the urging of the Polish foreign ministry, follows his op-ed about the Holocaust, which was published last week by the Washington Post._ “I regret linking Germany and Poland … because Poland was invaded and occupied by Germany,” Comey said in a letter to the Polish ambassador released by…
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Fast Forward Poland Still Waiting for Apology Over FBI Chief’s Holocaust Remarks
Poland was still waiting for the United States to apologize for remarks by an FBI official that it says implied complicity in the Holocaust during World War Two, a government spokeswoman said on Thursday. FBI director James Comey’s remarks, published in the Washington Post last week, prompted an outcry in Poland and drew condemnation in…
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Fast Forward Poland Demands Apology from FBI Chief Over Holocaust Remarks
Poland’s Foreign Ministry protested remarks by FBI director James Comey in which he said the Poles were the Nazis’ accomplices during the Holocaust. “In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to…
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Fast Forward Poland Angry at FBI Chief’s Nazi ‘Complicity’ Speech
(Reuters) — Poland has summoned the United States’ ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top U.S. intelligence official on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World War Two, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday. The article by FBI director James Comey, published in the Washington Post earlier this week, prompted…
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News No Peace for the Dead in Callously Neglected Polish Jewish Cemetery
On the shore of the Vistula River, about a two-hour drive south from Warsaw, sits the picturesque town of Kazimierz Dolny. It’s a colorful, small community of some 3,500, popular with artists and gleaming with astonishingly well-preserved architecture of its past glory as a vibrant Renaissance-era trading hub. Jews throughout the centuries helped create the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Graves Vandalized in Infamous Polish Town
Unknown individuals painted pentagrams and wrote a former Pope’s name on several Jewish tombstones they desecrated in southern Poland. The desecration occurred recently at the Jewish cemetery of Olkusz, a town located 25 miles northwest of Krakow, according to a report released Monday on the Facebook page of the Monitoring Centre for Racist and Xenophobic…
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Janusz Korczak Died With 190 Children at Treblinka
A Polish court changed the date of death of martyred Polish-Jewish humanitarian, Janusz Korczak, to reflect his death in the Treblinka Nazi death camp. Lublin District Court on Friday confirmed that Korczak died on Aug. 7, 1942, and not May 9, 1946, as a post-war court had ruled. The date of death was changed by…
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