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polish jews
Examining a shared history through a festival lens
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2015
Last fall, I was invited to show my documentary “Raquel: A Marked Woman” in Eastern Europe, including Poland, Romania and Ukraine.
Reconstruction of synagogue roof unveiled at Warsaw Jewish museum
Jewish Journal
March 12, 2013
The reconstructed roof of a 17th-century synagogue was unveiled at Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Israel trip helps Polish Jews in Jewish rediscovery
Jewish Journal
September 5, 2012
After Jerzy heard about frequent vandalism at an old Jewish cemetery in his home city of Gdansk, Poland, he decided to visit the graveyard. It had fallen into such disrepair that \”people would go there to drink beer,\” said Jerzy, who gave only his middle name due to fears of anti-Semitism.
Poland and the Jews: Is it time to stop hating the country when positive changes are transf
Jane Ulman
June 8, 2007
Many Jews still view Poland as the land of pogroms, persecution and prejudice; a terminally anti-Semitic and blood-drenched country where 3 million Jews were mercilessly murdered during World War II; a land dotted with death camps, desecrated cemeteries and deserted synagogues. What most Jews don\’t know is that Poland has changed radically over the past couple of decades, and these days, it is reaching out to Israel and to Jews –and not just socially, either.
Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising
Ruth E. Gruber
April 24, 2003
On April 19, 1943, heavily armed Nazi troops penetrated into the Warsaw Ghetto with a grim goal: the liquidation of the ghetto and the deportation of the last remnants of Warsaw\’s Jews — some 40,000 men, women and children.
Evil as a Day’s Work
Tom Tugend
June 14, 2001
\”There was no shouting or wailing,\” recalls a Nazi army veteran in wonder after watching Polish Jews digging their own graves before being machine-gunned. \”There was a deadly silence.\”
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