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News Poland Launches Charm Campaign To Defuse ‘Holocaust Law’ Tensions
Launching a last-minute damage control campaign, Polish officials have descended on Washington, trying to convince American officials, lawmakers and Jewish leaders that the uproar over Warsaw’s recent Holocaust law is no more than a “misunderstanding.” The law, which makes speaking of a “Polish Holocaust” a criminal offense, will take effect Thursday, although the country’s top…
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Fast Forward Polish Delegation Comes To Israel To Discuss Controversial Holocaust Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Polish delegation arrived in Israel to come to an understanding between the two countries on the controversial Holocaust law. The delegation will meet on Thursday with a team headed by the Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Yuval Rotem. Both delegations are made up of historians, journalists, lawyers and diplomats, the…
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Fast Forward Polish Firm Sells ‘Hitler Socks,’ Renames Them After Auschwitz Museum Complains
A Polish company is under fire for trying to sell socks that look like Adolf Hitler — and then trying to hide the evidence. Nanushki, a company that specializes in friendly-looking socks, offers the footwear on its website. The company originally claimed that the “Adolf” socks were designed “to bring order in the socks drawer,”…
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Fast Forward Simon Wiesenthal Center Mulls Travel Advisory To Jews Going To Poland
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights non-profit, is mulling posting a travel advisory for Jews going to Poland in the wake of an international controversy over a Holocaust rhetoric law, the Jewish Chronicle reported. “We would take such action with great reluctance. We are not enemies of Poland,” the group said in a statement….
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Fast Forward Polish Priest Says That Truth For Jews Is Whatever’s Beneficial To Them
(JTA) — Representatives of Polish Jews complained to the state watchdog on media over a public broadcaster’s airing of an interview with a priest who said Jews have a unique understanding of the concept of truth. Henryk Zielinski, editor-in-chief of the Catholic weekly Idziemy, said this on Feb. 24 during an interview with TVP, according…
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Community Intergenerational Trauma And The Holocaust
“What if something happens and you never come home, Em?” I hear my mother’s voice in my head as I pack for a trip to New York. I can feel the knot in my stomach move up to my throat and suddenly, I’m nauseous. I go to the bathroom and vomit. This isn’t the first…
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Fast Forward Polish Government Minister Walks Back ‘Polocaust’ Museum Plan
(JTA) — A “Polocaust” museum dedicated to non-Jewish Polish victims of the Nazis will not be built, a Polish government minister who supported the idea said. Deputy Culture Minister Jaroslaw Sellin on Monday walked back his support of the idea, floated last week by writer and scholar Marek Kochan in the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, saying it…
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Fast Forward ‘Righteous’ Poles Ask Israel And Poland To Return To ‘Path Of Reconciliation’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A letter signed by a group of 50 Poles honored by Yad Vashem with the title of Righteous Among the Nations appeals to the governments of both Israel and Poland to return “to the path of dialogue and reconciliation.” “Please do not write the history anew,” reads the letter sent Monday…
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