Jewish roots in predominantly Catholic Poland can be traced back to the 11th century. But when an estimated 88 percentof the 3.3 million Jews in Poland died in the Holocaust, the country\’s thriving Yiddish theater, literature and culture ceased to exist as well.
Polish Jewry before the war is the subject of a powerfulphoto exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance
By 1965, I was a well-established suburbanite living in Springfield, whose Jewish community included both a Reform and Conservative congregation. My personal affiliation was with Temple Beth Ahm, the Conservative synagogue, but one of the people in the community whom I liked very much was Israel Dresner, the rabbi of the Reform temple, Sha\’arey Shalom.
Blythe Danner, David Lascher and Kevin Zegers star in \”A Call to Remember.\”In \”A Call to Remember,\” which airs on Aug. 30 on STARZ! and Aug. 31 on the encore cable channel, we meet David and Paula Tobias (Joe Mantegna and Blythe Danner), survivors who lost their first spouses and children in the Holocaust. They are, nevertheless, attempting the semblance of a normal life in suburbia, raising two boys who want only to assimilate, to become Americans. The younger ditches bar mitzvah practice for Little League; the older brother yearns to move out of his parents\’ home and partake of the 1960s counterculture. Then comes the telephone call that will change their lives forever. Paula learns that one of her lost sons is, in fact, alive and living in Poland. The aftermath nearly tears the family apart.\n
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