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Fast Forward Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis
This marks the first time Poland has repatriated cultural property held under its care that was illegally taken from another country
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Fast Forward Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, 7 years after being pushed out by nationalist politics
Dariusz Stola called his return to the Polin Museum 'a victory of justice and rule of law'
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Fast Forward Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland
A minister in the president’s office called the film 'historical anti-Polish manipulation'
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Yiddish World Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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Yiddish World Restored Yiddish film ‘I Have Sinned’ captures pre-war Polish Jewry
An illegitimate birth is a major plot element, which would have been unthinkable in a contemporaneous American movie
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Film & TV She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
In the documentary ‘My Underground Mother,’ Marisa Fox uncovers her mother’s hidden past as a Holocaust survivor
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Film & TV What’s funny about living next to a Nazi?
In the attempted comedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Hitler — and befriends him anyway
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News Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired amid clash over who controls the preservation of Poland’s Jewish past
Around 200,000 Jews are buried at the cemetery in Poland’s capital
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