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Fast Forward Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews reveals an epic WWII story
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — At 100 years old, Jozef Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living rescuer of Jews. He was fortunate enough just to survive World War II. As a partisan fighter who specialized in smuggling arms in Nazi-occupied Poland, Walaszczyk assumed that the Gestapo would catch up with him at some point. He just expected it…
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Life I went to Poland to research my family’s history. I found a new generation to tell it to.
The house at No. 3 ul Azsa in the Polish city of Siedlce is mustard-and-peach stucco with a flower-lined balcony and the date 1811 marked under the roof. A nail salon fills the first floor; when my cousins lived there, before the Nazis occupied this city about a two-hour drive from Warsaw, it was their…
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Fast Forward Former Polish Priest Indicted For Hate Speech And Holocaust Denial
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A former priest involved in Poland’s nationalist movement has been indicted on hate speech and Holocaust denial charges. The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, in western Poland, brought three indictments against Jacek Miedlar. Another claims that he insulted the late prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Miedlar, who pleaded not…
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Fast Forward Pelosi-led Congressional delegation visits Krakow Jewish Center
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the Jewish community center in Krakow along with a congressional delegation and received honorary membership. The bipartisan delegation led by Pelosi visited JCC Krakow on Tuesday after visiting the site of the former Auschwitz Nazi camp and touring the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in advance of…
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Culture Polish Politician Dissed Holocaust Commemoration — Then Sued The Curator Who Commissioned It
Continuing a trend, in Poland, of political objections to artwork concerning the country’s role in the Holocaust, a nationalist Polish governor is suing an art curator for defamation. The row began in October, Art Newspaper reported, when a public artwork by Dorota Nieznalski commissioned by Lublin-based art historian and curator Tomasz Kitliński was unveiled during…
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Culture After Polish Government Complaint, Netflix To Amend Concentration Camp Maps
Following public complaints from the Polish government, Netflix will add explanatory notes to World War II-era maps showing the location of concentration camps used in its documentary series “The Devil Next Door.” The move by the streaming giant, reported by The New York Times, follows a letter of complaint from Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Marawiecki…
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Culture Poland Tussles With Netflix Over Concentration Camp Map In Holocaust Series
JTA — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings regarding “historical inaccuracies in film productions on this platform.” The letter was in response to the series “The Devil Next Door,” which tells the story of Ivan Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian guard at the Treblinka death camp. One episode of the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Students Assaulted By ‘Arabic Speakers’ In Warsaw
(JTA) — Israeli students spending a semester in Warsaw were attacked as they left a nightclub in the city. Two of the students required hospitalization after the early Saturday morning attack. The details of the attack were posted on Facebook by Barak Kashpizky, the twin brother of one of the injured Israelis. Yotam Kashpizky, who…
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