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Fast Forward Auschwitz Town Haunted by Death, Even 70 Years Later
(Reuters) — Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Everyone sat in their homes in silence, windows shut as tightly as possible,” she…
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News How a Year in Auschwitz Helped Me Grow
It happened when I made my first visit to the former concentration camps of Auschwitz. I had seen the iconic words “Arbeit macht frei” before in photos and movies, as well as at the main entrance gate to Birkenau, and had learned and read about what happened there. Growing up in Germany, I considered myself…
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The Schmooze ‘The Return’ Takes New Look at Polish Revival
(JTA) — On the crumbling wall of a former Polish synagogue, adjacent to a one-time Jewish ritual bath converted into a car wash, a graffiti artist has painted “Jews, We Miss You” in Polish and German. The message, scrawled on the wall in the Polish town of Dabrowno, is an apt message in contemporary Poland,…
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The Schmooze The Summer Polish Jews Were Hunted
Getty Images In the cities, hamlets, and pine-covered forests of Poland, a murderous hunt took place in the summer of 1942. The Germans called it the Judenjagd, the hunt for the Jews. Historian Jan Grabowski documents the deadly dragnet in his book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.” Originally published in…
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Fast Forward Poland Sends Roman Polanski Extradition Request to Judge
Polish prosecutors have sent a request to a regional court in Krakow for the extradition of filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex-crime conviction, the Prosecutors’ Office in Krakow said on Tuesday. “The further actions in this case will depend on the court,” the prosecutors’ office said in a statement….
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Fast Forward Roman Polanski Hopes To Avoid Extradition From Poland for 1977 Sex Conviction
Filmmaker Roman Polanski said on Thursday he did not expect Poland would comply with a request to extradite him to the United States over a 1977 child sex-crime conviction. Polanski, who is preparing to shoot a film in Poland, was interviewed on Wednesday by Polish prosecutors responding to the U.S. extradition request. They will refer…
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Fast Forward Vladimir Putin Will Skip Auschwitz Anniversary
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland this month, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Tuesday. Sources told Reuters on Monday that Putin was unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine…
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Fast Forward Polish Students Honored for Exploring History of Jewish Towns
Some 1,200 Polish students and teachers took part in the concluding program of the School of Dialogue, which explores the history of Jewish towns and cities in the country. Bogdan Borusewicz, the speaker of the Polish Senate, thanked the students for their participation in the project, which builds “tolerance and understanding of other cultures and…
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