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“Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” (another reminder that Wikipedia articles are not always reliably accurate)
JTA Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust Asaf Elia-Shalev February 28, 2023 When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to … Continue reading
“In the 14-minute film was a three-minute section of their visit to Kurtz’s grandfather’s home village of #Nasielsk, #Poland, a town whose Jewish community would be decimated by the #Holocaust not long after”
JTA How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary Stephen Silver August 26, 2022 In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home … Continue reading
“It was the Lion of Judah engraved on the door of a synagogue that helped him identify it as his grandfather’s hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw”
NEW YORK POST Devastating lost footage of Polish Jews revealed in new Holocaust doc Johnny Oleksinski August 19, 2022 One day in 2009, Glenn Kurtz made a shocking discovery. In the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home of his late grandfather … Continue reading
#Lapid: “The Poles wanted to mess with the content of the trips”
I24NEWS Israel cancels youth trips to Poland over ‘educative manipulations’ June 15, 2022 Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced at a briefing on Wednesday that youth trips to Poland were banned over attempts to manipulate educational content presented to Israeli … Continue reading
“A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?”
TABLET MAG A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel by Shalom Goldman September 23, 2021 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, published The Books of Jacob in 2014. The novel follows the messianic religious … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Catholics, Catholocism, Poland
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“While the law does not mention Jews, the Holocaust or World War II, it ensures that an administrative decision rendered more than 30 years ago could no longer be challenged”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Will Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel, Jewish community? by Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS and ILH Staff August 18, 2021 Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a … Continue reading
“Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians”
TABLET MAG The Polish Government’s Holocaust ‘Truth Campaign’ Is a Weird Mix of Authoritarianism, Ignorance, and Injured Pride by Havi Dreifuss February 25, 2021 …[Poland’s] new law deputized the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)—a central institution with state-sponsored prosecution powers—to … Continue reading
“Poland’s ruling party took a stand on Wednesday against a far-right push to stop the restitution of property owned by Jews and others before the Holocaust”
JERUSALEM POST Polish leaders block bill stopping restitution of property lost in Holocaust by Cnaan Lipshiz April 16, 2020 Poland’s ruling party took a stand on Wednesday against a far-right push to stop the restitution of property owned by Jews … Continue reading
“Polish President Andrzej Duda’s decision to skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem next week, which top world leaders will attend, highlights the crisis in Polish-Israeli ties”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom by Caroline B. Glick January 17, 2020 Next Thursday is supposed to mark another diplomatic triumph for Israeli diplomacy. On January 23, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrzej Duda, Benjamin Netanyahu, Holocaust, Poland
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“Yes, 2019, Warsaw, Poland, and the reality is returning”
ALGEMEINER Group of Israelis Said Brutally Attacked in Warsaw by Arab Men Shouting ‘Free Gaza’ by Benjamin Kerstein September 8, 2019 A group of Israelis were accosted and one severely beaten in Warsaw, Poland by a group of Arab men, … Continue reading
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