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accident in which I broke my knee. I am going to
restart placing recemt publications on our Web site
in a few days - IB"
12.2006r.
The fragile rebirth of Polish Jewry
The Jerusalem Post
Online edition
December 4, 2005
When Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich was punched and pepper-sprayed on a Warsaw street in May while his attacker shouted "Poland for the Poles," it may have seemed to some that history was repeating itself.
(more)
12.2006r.
Progressive Rabbi Installed in Poland
Poland's First Progressive Rabbi Since Holocaust
Installed in Warsaw
Ceremony
By VANESSA GERA
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish Jewish community installed its first
Progressive rabbi since World War II Friday in a ceremony filled
with lively music and solemn remembrance of those who perished in
the Holocaust.
(more)
12.2006r.
POLISH JEWS FORUM
Irena Sendler mooted for Nobel Peace Prize - support this candidacy!
Norm Conrad, a history teacher at Uniontown High School, proposed the award for Irena Sendler, who saved more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during World War II.
(more)
12.2006r.
Poles discover their Jewish roots
By Adam Easton
BBC News, Warsaw
December 12, 2006
Under Nazi and communist persecution, the few Jews who remained in Poland sometimes hid their identity, leaving a surprise in store for their descendants.
(more)
12.2006r.
News release
Museum of the History of Polish Jews Presents First Special Recognition Awards at U.S. Embassy Event
Museum Honors Attorney Roman Rewald and the Law Firm of Weil, Gotshal and Manges, and Ryszard Krauze of Prokom and the Ryszard Krauze Foundation
(more)
12.2006r.
FOCUS ON ISSUES
Survivor from Poland makes
dialogue his own historical legacy
By Dinah A. Spritzer
October 23, 2006
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland, Oct. 23 (JTA) - Until recently, it was thought
that a particular truckload of Jews selected for death by the Nazis
in Czestochowa were all lined up, shot and killed.
But as Sigmund Rolat, who survived the Holocaust in the Polish town,
tells the audience about a day he thought he knew so well in the
former Jewish ghetto, he has a surprise.
(more)
11.2006r.
They also served
Listen - Polish Radio
05.10.2006
An exhibition focusing on Jewish soldiers in the Polish armed forces during the Second World War is now on in Jerusalem.
The organizers say the fact that Polish Jews served in the army alongside Christian Poles hasn't been given enough attention. The current exhibition in Jerusalem is held under the patronage of the Polish President.
(more)
11.2006r.
Statuette of Felek Scharf awarded in 2006
to Professor Antony Polonsky
The Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture
Meiselsa 17, 31-058 Krakow, Poland
www.judaica.pl info1@judaica.pl
November 19, 2006
The 'Felek' statuette, dedicated to the memory of Rafael F. Scharf has been awarded for the year 2006 to Professor Antony Polonsky of Brandeis Universit, Waltham, Massachusetts in the United States.
(more)
11.2006r.
Polish Jewish Cultural Posters
New York, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan,
November 16, 2006 - January 17, 2007
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Contemporary Posters, and The Polish Cultural Institute present the exhibition POLISH JEWISH CULTURAL POSTERS from the Contemporary Posters collection.
(more)
11.2006r.
Farewell to HENRY DASKO
Compiled by Piotr Jassem.
Toronto Ceremony, Tuesday, September 19, 2006.
Funeral home: Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel
LIFE IS A JOURNEY by Alvin Fine Read by Rabbi Dow Marmur
(more)
09.2006r.
Polish
president: We're Israel's best friend in Europe
By Greer Fay Cashman
The Jerusalem Post September 11 2006 "Szalom Panie Prezydencie," (Peace,
Mr. President) Polish President
Lech Kaczynski said in an enthusiastic response
to the warm welcome
that he and his wife Maria received from President
Moshe Katsav and
his wife Gila during a visit to Beit Hanassi on
Monday.
(more)
09.2006r.
Polish
Jews to open in Warsaw in
2009
By DPA
www.haaretz.com
Construction on the long-awaited Museum of
the History of Polish Jews will begin in the Polish
capital Warsaw next
fall, with its doors expected to
open within three years.
(more)
09.2006r.
North
American Council
Newsletter
# 7
C O N T E N T S
:: Letter
from Jerzy Halbersztadt
:: FUNDRAISING
MILESTONES: New $1 Million Dollar Gift
:: Benefit
Performance of Brundibar
:: North
American Council Gains 501(c)3 Status
:: West
Coast Support for the Museum
:: North
American Council Meetings in Poland
:: Lori
Sherman Appointed NAC Director of Development
Letter
from Jerzy Halbersztadt
(more)
09.2006r.
Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw
Polish Radio
September 9, 2006
Report by Michal
Kubicki
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=41535&j=2
The festival, now in its third year, features, as usual, the
work of Nobel
Prize winner Issac Bashevis Singer, who began his career in the Polish
capital before emigrating to the USA in 1935.
(more)
09.2006r.
An Appeal to the German Government
to Restore the Jewish Cemeteries
of Poland
September 15 2006
The invasion of Poland by German forces in
1939 brought for the Jews immediate and systematic
dehumanization, plundering, forced ghettoization,
starvation, and the "final solution", when 3 million
Polish Jews were murdered-half of the 6 million Jews
who were annihilated in the Holocaust.
(more)
09.2006r.
A Nobel Prize for peace - and image
By Yossi Melman
Last Update: 11/09/2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=kaczynski&itemNo=761014
In 1942, in the midst of World War Two, Irena Sendler secretly packed
a few
Jewish children into an ambulance and smuggled them out of the Warsaw
Ghetto. In the front passenger seat, next to the driver, she put a dog,
whose loud barking drowned out the crying children. Throughout the war,
Sendler worked to save Jewish children - 2,500 in total.
(more)
08.2006r.
"POSTWAR POGROM
NY Times book review of Jan T. Gross, 'Fear: Antisemitism
in Poland after Auschwitz'
by David Margolick
July 23, 2006
Sometime in the late 1950's, a pair of Jewish
newlyweds walked
arm-in-arm down the streets of Lodz. Like all surviving
Polish Jews of
their generation, the two had lived through the Holocaust
against
enormous odds, making the joy of that moment all
the more poignant.
"Look at them," a well-dressed passer-by suddenly sneered, loud
enough for them to hear. "It's like they're
in Tel Aviv." To them, his message was clear: Jews had no business living
in Poland, let alone being happy there.
(more)
08.2006r.
Polish minister with spotty ancestry
claims his party is not anti-Semitic
JTA, August 3, 2006
Dinah A.Spritzer
WARSAW, Aug. 3 (JTA) - Handsome, articulate
and full of sympathetic words for the "Jewish nation,"
Polish Education Minister Roman Giertych is asked
to account for years of anti-Semitic statements made
by members of his party, the League of Polish Families.
(more)
08.2006r.
Even as problems of hate persist,
Poles say anti-Semitism label unfair
By Dinah Spritzer
http://www.jta.org/page_view
PRAGUE, July 17 (JTA) - They
are despised by many. They face discrimination and
stereotyping, and feel overwhelmed by the prejudice
against them. They want to be seen as individuals,
not as a group, and they want the media to stop slandering
them.
(more)
08.2006r.
Poland works with Yad Vashem
to identify 'Righteous' Poles
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=39089&j=2
12.07.2006
The Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw
(IPN) has had a general cooperation agreement with
the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem since 2004. Now, the
Israeli institute studying crimes of the Holocaust
has promised to officially assist it in gathering
archive documents about Poles who lost their life,
or suffered repression for helping Jews during the
Second World War.
(more)
08.2006r.
Menachem Daum
August 8, 2006
Alfred
Hitchcock once said, "In
feature films the director is
God; in documentary films God is the director." I
think about this when people congratulate us for our "brilliant" filmmaking.
The truth is we were skating on pretty thin ice. Despite
our best efforts things could just as easily have turned
out otherwise. We went to Poland almost
60 years after the events, not knowing if the rescuers
still lived in the same place or even if they were
still alive.
(more)
08.2006r.
'Fear': An Exchange
Letters to the Editor
New York Times, August 20 2006
In his review of
"Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz,"
by Jan T. Gross (July 23), David Margolick writes:
"With the war over, and to tumultuous applause, a
thousand delegates of the Polish Peasants Party actually
passed a resolution thanking Hitler for
annihilating Polish Jewry and urging that those he'd
missed be expelled."
(more)
08.2006r.
'Fear': An Exchange
Letters to the Editor
New York Times, August 20 2006
In his review of
"Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz,"
by Jan T. Gross (July 23), David Margolick writes:
"With the war over, and to tumultuous applause, a
thousand delegates of the Polish Peasants Party actually
passed a resolution thanking Hitler for
annihilating Polish Jewry and urging that those he'd
missed be expelled."
(more)
08.2006r.
BOOK REVIEW by Charles Chotkowski:
"Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz."
By Jan T. Gross. 303 pp.
Random House. $25.95.
The
announcement that Jan T. Gross would publish a book
on anti-Semitism in postwar Poland prompted Polish
Americans to ask: would the new book be as bad a
book, and as bad for Poland and the Poles, as his
earlier book "Neighbors" on the
Jedwabne massacre?
(more)
08.2006r.
Besieged by Hezbollah rockets,
Israeli kids find shelter in Poland
Dinah Spritzer
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16925&intcategoryid=2
PRAGUE, Aug. 8 (JTA)
- Even a decade ago, almost no one could have predicted
that Poland, of all places, would serve as a refuge
for Israeli children.
(more)
08.2006r.
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com
July 16, 2006
THE United Nations has agreed to rename Auschwitz concentration
camp
to stress that Nazi Germans, not Poles, were responsible
for the
world's most notorious death camp, Poland's Culture
Ministry has
said.
"Auschwitz Concentration Camp", a UN heritage site, will
be
renamed "the Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz",
the ministry of culture said in a statement.
(more)
06.2006r.
FEATURE - Divided church awaits Benedict in
Catholic Poland
Friday May 19, 2006
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060519/3/2krwl.html
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - It
is 7 a.m. on a weekday and the 17th century church
of St. Florian, where the late Pope John Paul was once
a parish priest, is brimming with worshippers at the
day's first mass.
(more)
06.2006r.
Renowned Polish poet and author Jerzy Ficowski
dies at 82
Copyright 2006 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur
GmbH: Tuesday, May. 9, 2006 - 9:20 AM
Warsaw (dpa) - The leading biographer
of Poland's literary legend Bruno Schulz, Polish
poet and author Jerzy Ficowski died in Warsaw Tuesday
aged 82, Poland's Writers' Guild confirmed.
(more)
06.2006r.
Polish Jewish Museum - A Tough Sell Here
Some philanthropists dismissive of
historical institution on site of Warsaw Ghetto.
Steve Lipman - Staff Writer
The Jewish Week
05/19/2006
Victor Markowicz, a Siberian-born philanthropist who grew up in Poland
and later moved to the United States, spends much of his time these days
asking fellow Jewish philanthropists in the U.S. to contribute to a
Jewish museum to be built in Warsaw in the next few years.
(more)
06.2006r.
March of The Living Is Missing A Path
Burt E. Schuman
From New York Jewish
Week 05/19/2006
http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=5054
Thousands of Jewish teens and college students recently
returned from Poland
as part of the March of the Living, a program designed
to educate young
adults about the Holocaust and to reaffirm support
for the State of Israel
as our national Jewish homeland. The problem, however,
is that the March of
the Living treats Poland as merely a Jewish graveyard
and ignores the
near-miraculous renaissance of Jewish life in Poland
today. This is a
serious "sin of omission" on the part of
the March and its organizers.
(more)
06.2006r.
Not just
for Jews: Companies show
support for Polish Jewish museum
By
Dinah A. Spritzer
June 25, 2006
PRAGUE, June 25 (JTA)
- Anyone who thinks the planned $58 million Museum
of the History of Polish Jews doesn't have the
support of general Polish society might have
to reconsider.
Eleven leaders from the country's top business
and employer associations joined forces recently
to announce their endorsement of the museum and
to urge members to contribute financially.
(more)
06.2006r.
Jerzy Ficowski, Poet and Translator
By JOSHUA COHEN
Forward
New York, May
26, 2006
Jerzy Ficowski, a peerless advocate for the
arts and letters of a decimated Polish Jewry, died
in Warsaw on May
9, at the age of 82.
(more)
06.2006r.
Israeli-Polish youth exchange programs to
be expanded
Etgar Lefkovits
Jerusalem Post, July 3,
2006
A new Polish governmental department which
will oversee the broadening of youth exchanges between Israel and Poland will
circumvent the far-right Polish education minister
whom Israel is
boycotting due to his party's youth wing anti-Semitic
ideology, Poland's
ambassador to Israel said
Monday.
(more)
06.2006r.
Innocence lost
By Suzanne Traverws
Herald News, July 2, 2006
"Most nightmares fade with the light
of day, but the one through which Mrs. Sophie Straczynski
and her two children lived for seven terror-filled
years still haunts them, even though they have been
free from its grip since last June." -- The
Morning Call, Paterson, N.J.,
December 24, 1946
(more)
06.2006r.
Giving birth, cheating death
Jeff Heinrich
The Gazette (Montreal)
April 22, 2006
First, she bore a baby girl. Then, for years,
she bore the burden of the past. Now, she is bearing
witness.
(more)
06.2006r.
Exhibit documents life, struggle in ghetto
Adam Gorlick,
July 6, 2006
The Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. - Some of the images seem almost mundane.
A photograph of hunched women picking cabbage. Essays
scrawled in the handwriting of school children. Posters
advertising a summertime performance of the Jewish
Symphony Orchestra.
(more)
06.2006r.
Elie Wiesel Accuses Poland
commentary by Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik editor-in-chief
Gazeta Wyborcza, June 27 2006
The
influential US daily Washington Post published on
Sunday a review, by Nobel prize winner and Auschwitz
survivor Elie Wiesel, of a new book by Jan Gross,
the author of Neighbors. The subject of the book,
titled Fear, is the persecution of Jews in post-war
Poland in the years 1945-1946.
(more)
06.2006r.
Exhibit documents life, struggle in ghetto
Adam Gorlick,
July 6, 2006
The Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. - Some of the images seem almost mundane.
A photograph of hunched women picking cabbage. Essays
scrawled in the handwriting of school children. Posters
advertising a summertime performance of the Jewish
Symphony Orchestra.
(more)
06.2006r.
Editorial
Poland's Bigoted Government
New York Times, 11 June 2006
Some
formerly Communist countries that eagerly joined
the European Union are balking at the social policies
that come with democracy. They are led by the union's
largest new member, Poland,
which is now run by a right-wing nationalist government
that seems intent on violating the rights of minority
groups, beginning with an attack on gays.
(more)
06.2006r.
Books: Czeslaw Milosz - The Poet in His Times
By Phil McArdle, Special to the Planet
Berkeley, 26
June 2006
On
the day in 1980 when Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) received
the Nobel Prize for literature most people in Berkeley had
never heard of him. When we went to the bookstores
looking for his work, we were disappointed. What
little there was sold out before noon. But when the
stores restocked and newly published books by him
became available, we discovered he was a prolific
writer. And one of extraordinary stature.
(more)
06.2006r.
A Polish-Jewish renaissance
Greer Fay Cashman
Jerusalem Post , Online
June 26 2006
The Krakow Festival of Jewish Culture has
become so important that it is listed on Poland's
national calendar of events and is even used as a
marketing tool for tourism.
(more)
05.2006r.
LIGHT FROM THE SHADOWS
Mila Sandberg-Mesner
Published by
the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation in Montreal
with the financial help of
the Polish Socio-Cultural Foundation in Montreal
Light From The Shadows
Copyright: Mila Sandberg-Mesner
2005
Cover etching "Hands" by Beata Wehr
(more)
30.05.2006r.
Mila
Sandberg-Mesner, LIGHT FROM THE SHADOWS, 2005
21.04.2006r.
The Polish-Jewish Heritage
Foundation of Canada
Toronto and Montreal
Open Letter to Dr. M.
Stern,
Deputy Secretary General
of the World Jewish Congress
April 10, 2006
I am writing on behalf
of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada
(Toronto and Montreal) in response to the remarks made
by Maram Stern, deputy secretary of the World Jewish
Congress. The PJHF, of which I am a founder and
past Chair, is dedicated to exploring the history and
culture of Polish Jewry. It examines Polish-Jewish
relations in an open and honest fashion.
(more)
21.04.2006r.
International ignorance
about Auschwitz
The Polish Outlook
European News Review
April 10, 2006
Knowing that there
is a widespread misconception about the origin
of and operation of the Nazi German Auschwitz Birkenau
death camps, the Polish government is taking steps
to change the name of the camps to emphasize that
the camps were Nazi German facilities. This proposal
to change the name has met with resistance from
some quarters. At the same time it has stirred
a sudden debate in Poland that
has raised the ire of both the Jewish people who
were prisoners at the camp, Polish veterans groups
and the families of Polish people who were also prisoners
at the camps.
(more)
21.04.2006r.
Copyright 2006 PAP Polish
Press Agency PAP News Wire
April 13, 2006 Thursday
WJC removes controversial
Auschwitz statement
Bielsko-Biala, April 13, 2006
The World Jewish Congress (WJC)
has removed from its website a controversial commentary
criticizing Poland's plea to rename the former Nazi
death camp Auschwitz.
(more)
21.04.2006r.
The Bravest Man Who Ever
Died
by Chris
Kulczycki
Daily Kos
Wed Dec 14, 2005
Last week I wrote about Jan
Karski, who tried to warn the world
of the Holocaust. This article is about a man who
showed that courage and dedication have no limits,
a man who purposely had himself arrested and imprisoned
in Auschwitz to help those already there and also
to warn the world of the Holocaust. His name was
Witold Pilecki and he has been called the bravest
man in World War II.
(more)
21.04.2006r.
The
Association of "Children of the Holocaust" in
Poland
http://www.dzieciholocaustu.org.pl
23 and 24 March, 2006
The Presentation
of the Irena Sendler Award "For repairing the
world"
(more)
31.03.2006r.
MHPJ
Newsletter No. 6
North American Council
FEBRUARY, 2006
(more)
31.03.2006r.
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=34215&j=2
A
march for the living
Listen 
Each
year a March for the Living, is held to commemorate
Jews who had to walk from the Jewish Ghetto of Cracow
to the Plaszow Nazi concentration camp. This is just
one of many such marches that take place every year
in Poland.
(more)
31.03.2006r
http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=34360&j=2
Kazimierz never
sleeps
Listen 
Join
Radio Polonia's Gabriel Stille for a trip to Kazimierz
- the old Jewish district of Krakow, boasting a rich
heritage as well as vibrant nightlife
(more)
31.03.2006r
Survivors in love
Photo exhibit celebrates
romances
that endured through
the horrors of the Holocaust
By Doug Kreutz
Arizona Daily
Star
Tucson, Arizona |
Published: 03.25.2006
You never know
where love will grow. The Holocaust, for example.
In that nightmare era of Nazi persecution of Jews
more than 60 years ago, love somehow endured - and
sometimes even blossomed in the aftermath. An upcoming
exhibit at the Jewish Community Center celebrates
couples who forged lasting relationships amid a scourge
of evil.
(more)
31.03.2006r
From the Web editor
Tecia Werbowski's literary activities
March 15, 2005
Tecia Werbowski is coming out
with a new miniature novel, or novella entitled "Loveless
duet", originally called Not a love story.
It will be published and launched in September 2006.
(more)
31.03.2006r
European Jewish
leaders
Share their Troubles
By DINAH A. SPRITZER
JTA - Canadian Jewish News
March 1, 2006
PRAGUE - Hans
Vuijsje, general director of the Jewish Social Work
Foundation in the Netherlands, is worried about the
nursing home he runs.
(more)
10.03.2006r
On the Pope's Upcoming Trip
to Poland
Interview With Bishop Ncyz
ZENIT News Agency
The World Seen From Rome
Date: 2006-02-28
ROME, FEB. 28, 2006 Benedict
XVI's visit to Poland this
May could serve to make clear his interest in reviving Europe's
Christian heritage, says a bishop.
(more)
10.03.2006r
Press Release
March 4, 2006
www.irenasendler.org
Spokesman of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Poland
Information for the media
A ceremony of bestowing the Irena Sendlerowa
Award, named after the heroic member of an underground
organization "Zegota", to Polish and US
teachers. March 24th 2006, 1 p.m.,
Pałacyk MSZ, 6 Foksal street, Warsaw
(more)
10.03.2006r
And the losers are
... the Jews
By Cal Thomas
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Jews run Hollywood, some say. If they
do, one might expect them to produce films that better
reflect their heritage and values, rather than serve
as apologists for those who wish to exterminate the
Jewish people.
(more)
10.03.2006r
Poles start asking
about their absent Jewish neighbours
by Ryszard Bankowicz in Warsaw
European Jewish Press
March 4, 2006
Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka
is the minister in the Chancellery of the President
of the Republic of Poland
Lech Kaczynski responsible
for Polish-Jewish relations. The 52-year-old is a
graduate of law and former journalist and editor-in-chief
of the Dziennik Polski daily in Detroit.
(more)
10.03.2006r
UNDER SIEGE
A beloved Soviet
writer's path to dissent
By KEITH GESS
The New Yorker
Issue of 2006-03-06
In the terrible
winter of 1938, just before the last of the Moscow
show trials, the Soviet secret police arrested a woman
named Olga Guber for having failed to denounce her
anti-Soviet husband. It was an error. The husband
she was to have denounced-the poet Boris Guber, arrested
a year earlier-was no longer her husband. The novelist
Vasily Grossman was her husband. Desperate, Grossman
sent a carefully composed letter to Nikolai Yezhov,
the head of the N.K.V.D. He wrote that Olga had severed
all ties with Guber long before.
(more)
10.03.2006r
Holocaust Memory
Day Ceremony.
To remind the Holocaust.
RZECZPOSPOLITA
24th of JANUARY 2006
Tomorrow, instead
of Friday, starts a celebration of the International
Day of Commemoration to Honor Holocaust
Victims. The Day is celebrated for the first time
this year. It was established by the UN last year.
The extermination of the Jews during the World War
will be reminded in a few places around the world
at the same time, in London, Copenhagen and Prague.
In Poland the ceremony
is planned for Warsaw.
(more)
21.02.2006r
Polish president
met with representatives of the
American Jewish Committee
Report by Michal Kubicki
From the external service
of Polish Radio
February 15, 2006
www.radio.com.pl
During a recent
visit to the United States, Polish president Lech
Kaczynski met with representatives of the American
Jewish Committee. Since the fall of communism in
Poland in 1989, Polish authorities have made efforts
towards improving ties with Jewish communities in
Israel and the rest of the world.
(more)
21.02.2006r
Poland will not
allow "research" Holocaust
Reuters, Poland
February 17, 2006
Poland's Foreign
Minister Stefan Meller on Friday ruled out allowing
any Iranian researchers to examine the scale of the
Holocaust committed by the German Nazis on Polish
soil during World War Two.
(more)
21.02.2006r
Michal Kubicki reports
Radio Polonia
February 12, 2006
At
a meeting in Warsaw this week, historians from Poland
and several other European countries have recommended
two more items in Poland to be included on the United
Nation's Memory of the World list.
(more)
21.02.2006r
Holocaust Survivor, 76,
Is Bar Mitzvah
By FRANK ELTMAN
The Associated Press
Friday, February 17, 2006
MINEOLA, N.Y. -- In the eyes of Jewish law,
76-year-old Herman Rosenblat has finally become a
man.
(more)
03.02.2006r
DW-World.de
Europe | 27.01.2006
The world will remember the victims and survivors
of the Holocaust on January 27
January 27, 1945: The Red Army liberates
Auschwitz and exposes Nazi brutality to the world.
The same day in 2006 will be the first international
Holocaust Day. It comes at a time of heightened
anti-Semitism.
(more)
03.02.2006r
Empty tram rolls in Warsaw as Holocaust memorial
27/Jan/2006
http://www.ejpress.org/article/5463 [Photo
at website]
An empty tramcar bearing the Star of David
instead of a number rolled silently through the streets
of the Polish capital Thursday to commemorate the
victims of the Holocaust
(more)
03.02.2006r
By Edward Rothstein
Exhibition Review | 'Life in Shadows'
New York Times, 24 January 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/arts/design/24hidd.html?emc=eta1
Their
mundane appearance is loaded with implication; their
stains and signs of wear haunt the mind if not the
eye. The very fact that they look as if they were plucked
from a rummage heap contributes to their power
(more)
03.02.2006r
Jewish museum in Poland set to open in 2008
By SHELDON KIRSHNER
Staff Reporter
Canadian Jewish News
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8303
Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka
In the first project of its kind in Poland, a museum of Polish Jewry
will be built in Warsaw, on the site of the Nazi wartime ghetto.
(more)
03.02.2006r
The Twins' New Poland
Timothy Garton Ash
New York Review of
Books
February 9, 2006
Peoples can be
luckier than people. People are only young once.
They seize their chances or miss them; then they
grow old and die. Despite the anthropomorphic similes
beloved of romantic nationalists-"young Italy," "young
Germany"-peoples "live," in some important
sense, for centuries, even millennia, sustained by
real or imagined continuities of political geography
and collective experience. They can be "sick" or "old" for
hundreds of years, but then become renewed and youthful
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03.02.2006r
JEROME OSTROV
Received from Lucyna Artymiuk
January 28, 2005
Introduction
As I boarded my
flight from Warsaw to Washington, DC, I tried to distill
my many experiences, thoughts and emotions acquired
during a whirlwind 8-day trip through Poland. Of the
painful trips to the death camps, the meetings with
the nascent Jewish communities of Warsaw and Krakow,
the tours of the few reminders of what had been 700
years of Jewish life in Poland, the sorrowful yet uplifting
stories of survivors having been reunited years after
separation, and the saga of the righteous gentile who
risked all to save an unknown Jewish child, these are
the memories of my eight-day stay that permeated my
thinking:
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11.01.2006r
MHPJ Newsletter
No. 5
North American Council
November 3, 2005
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11.01.2006r
A tearful rebirth
in Krakow
By Michael Freund
Jewish
World Review
Nov. 17, 2005 /15 Mar-Cheshvan, 5766
KRAKOW - This past Sabbath, Benjamin
Klein had every reason to let the tears flow freely.
The scene was this city's famed Rema synagogue, where
the great 16th century scholar Rabbi Moses Isserles
once presided. The small sanctuary was filled to capacity,
as the melodies of Friday evening hymns and supplications
filled the room.
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11.01.2006r
Pope's Family House
up for Sale
Radio Polonia
December 2005
The modest house in the
southern Polish town of Wadowice, where the Late
Pope John Paul II was born has been put up for sale
for one million US dollars. The house holds many
artifacts and family heirlooms of Karol Wojtyla and
his family. The Polish Roman Catholic church as well
as the Polish Jewish community are interested in
buying the property.
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11.01.2006r
US
to deport alleged Nazi guard
BBC
News, December 2005
http://news.bc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4565806.stm
An 85-year-old man accused of having been
a guard at a Nazi death camp is to be deported from
the US to his native Ukraine, an immigration judge
has said
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11.01.2006r
My wife, Suzanne, and
I have been married for 16 years. I am Jewish and
Suzanne is Irish Catholic.
While we are raising our two
children . Rachel, 15, and Christopher, 13 . Catholic,
we have made a conscious effort to expose our children
to both religions. At the holiday time, our home has
all the Christmas decorations that you would expect
to see including a live tree, Spode dinnerware and
lots of wreaths, garland and poinsettias. We also proudly
display a menorah.
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11.01.2006r
Krakow Honors Holocaust Victims
A report from Robert Kusek
Radio Polonia's correspondent in Krakow
Radio Polonia, December 27, 2005
We go to the southern city of
Krakow now where the Israeli Ambassador to Poland has
opened the Square named after the Heroes of the city's
Jewish Ghetto - a monument commemorating the extermination
of the southern city of Krakow the Israeli Ambassador
to Poland has opened the Square named after the Heroes
of the Jewish Ghetto - a monument commemorating the
extermination of the city's Jewish population during
World War Two.
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