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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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Culture On Alexandre, the Greatest Jewish Composer You’ve Never Heard of
When “Ida” received the Oscar for best foreign film, it put a global spotlight on a Polish story about that nation’s struggle to face Jewish memories from the Nazi era. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Philharmonic gave a concert that touched on these themes in a different way. The orchestra performed the long-awaited American…
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Opinion Meet the Long-Lost Jews of Jedwabne
Courtesy of Marcel Lozinski On July 10, 1941, the Polish villagers of Jedwabne engaged in a mad orgy of torture and murder, aimed at their Jewish neighbors. Anna Bikont, a Polish journalist and columnist, tells this horrifying story in her new book, “The Crime and the Silence.” Part history, part memoir, the book will be…
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Fast Forward 2 Pre-World War II Polish Torah Scrolls Restored
The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland will save two pre-World War II Torah scrolls using a grant received from the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. The Torah scrolls are originally from Zamosc and Zwierzyniec. After restoration the Zamosc scroll will be exhibited in a display case in the…
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