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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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Fast Forward Uruguayan Soccer Star Apologizes Over Emoji-Filled Birthday Photo At Auschwitz
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Uruguayan soccer player apologized after sparking outrage for wishing himself a happy birthday with a photo from Auschwitz. Rodrigo Zalazar decorated a snap of himself outside the Nazi concentration camp with celebratory emojis and posted it to his Instagram. The insensitive image was taken on August 12, when Zalazar…
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Fast Forward Polish Woman Who Saved Jewish Family From Holocaust Dies At 102
(JTA) — Krystyna Danko, one of the oldest and most celebrated non-Jews recognized by Israel for saving Jews from the Holocaust, has died. She was 102. Danko, who became deaf and blind a few years ago, passed away Wednesday in her Warsaw home. She died in her sleep in a hospital bed recently purchased for…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi Of Poland Detained After Climbing Fence Of Barricaded Synagogue
(JTA) — Police in Krakow briefly detained the chief rabbi of Poland after he tried to climb the fence of a synagogue whose congregation has been evicted by leaders of that city’s Jewish community. In the unusual incident Thursday at Krakow’s Izaak Synagogue, Rabbi Michael Schudrich was asked to explain his actions and present his…
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Fast Forward Polish City Has First Jewish Festival In Decades
(JTA) — The city of Lodz, once a major Jewish hub in Poland, hosted its first Jewish festival in decades. Hundreds attended the Festival of Tranquility last week in the central city over the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Drawing on similar events in Krakow, Warsaw, Budapest and other cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the…
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Fast Forward Polish Debate Over Holocaust Restitution Has Turned Anti-Semitic, Jews Warn
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Jewish leaders are warning about anti-Semitic speech here amid a debate over the fate of property seized from or abandoned by Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of Jewish Religious Communities has appealed to Polish politicians to “abandon hate speech towards Jews.” Politicians on the extreme right raised the topic of…
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