Mock Nazi camp in Debica, Poland

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The authorities of the Debica region in southern Poland have decided to construct a replica of a Nazi concentration camp. The copy of the camp would be situated in the locality of Pustkow , where a Nazi concentration camp operated during WWII. Some 3 thousand Poles, 7 thousand Jews and 5 thousand Soviet POW were murdered there. The replica of the camp with the main entrance gate, barracks for prisoners surrounded by barbed wire is to stand near the Mountain of Death a memorial to the victims of the Pustkow camp. The initiative would be financed by EU funds and

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Films: NYC Film event “Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews”

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Received by email: ======From: “Vlady Rozenbaum” Dear Friends, Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews, is finally out and I am proud to announce that its New York Premiere will take place at the The Makor/Steinhardt Center on March 14 and 15, 2007 at 6 PM and 8 PM. BothRobert and myself will be there for a Q&A session following the screening. It took Robert Podgursky, a co-producer of this film, and myself, more thenseven years to complete this film, and we consider it ‘a labor of love’.This feature documentary (80 min.) has already won the Audience Award

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Finland’s Tarnished Holocaust Record

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From Finland’s Tarnished Holocaust Record: A few years ago it became public that Finland had handed over almost three thousand Soviet prisoners of war to the Germans during World War II. Until that time Finland had the reputation of a country that protected all its Jews, except for eight Central European Jewish refugees who were handed over to the Gestapo. At least seventy Soviet Jewish prisoners were extradited to the Gestapo. The Finnish government has appointed a historical commission to investigate the deaths, extraditions, and deportations of Soviet prisoners of war and others to the Germans. Author Elina Sana, who

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American Visas Were Denied for Anne Frank, Family

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From AP: Anne Frank’s father tried to arrange U.S. visas for his family before they went into hiding, but his efforts were hampered by restrictive immigration policies designed to protect national security, Holocaust experts said Wednesday. Otto Frank first applied for immigration visas to the U.S. for himself and his family in 1938, reviving his efforts in 1941 – a move that may seem lax with what is now known about the Holocaust, but was logical to Frank at the time. “He preferred what seemed to him like the nuisances that encumbered an otherwise comfortable life under Nazi occupation in

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House passes bill requiring Holocaust education in public schools (in Indiana)

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From the Chicago Tribune: Legislation requiring Indiana’s public schools to teach students about the horrors of the Holocaust has overwhelmingly passed the Indiana House. The House voted 91-0 Friday in favor of the bill, which was inspired by Eva Mozes Kor, a 72-year-old Indiana woman who survived a concentration camp and operates a Terre Haute museum dedicated to teaching about the Nazis’ World War II killings of some 6 million Jews in Europe. Under the bill, which now moves to the Senate for consideration, Holocaust lessons would be required by law as part of U.S. history courses starting in the

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Reopening of the Yeshiva Chachmei Synagogue in Lublin

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From The European Jewish Press: Poland’s Jewish community celebrated on Sunday the reopening of the Lublin synagogue in the building which once housed the largest rabbi school in Europe before being nearly destroyed in the Holocaust. Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, performed theopening ceremony at the Yeshiva Chachmei synagogue inthe eastern Poland city. Schudrich said the reopening of the synagogue is asign of the “growing up” of Poland’s Jewish community. With the affixing of the mezuzah – a special parchment with required Hebrew inscriptions – to the synagogue doorposts and the ceremonial entry of the Torah scroll, the synagogue once

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Want to deny the Holocaust?

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At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Adolf Eichmann’s defiant boast: “I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5,000,000 human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.” Even Eichmann did not deny the Holocaust, nor did he deny the enormous number of 5,000,000, recalling the Jews he helped kill, as chief of the Gestapo’s Jewish Section, where he drew up the lists of names, marshaled the freight cars that carried the victims to the camps, perfected the methods of slaughter—finally settling on “Zyklon B” as the gas that was

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The Beast in Chains

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Who is Adolf Eichmann? A detailed article from Time Magazine, dated Monday, June 06, 1960, on the historic arrest of Nazi war criminal and Jew-exterminator, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what was called the ‘final solution’ of the Jewish question— the extermination of 6,000,000 Jews of Europe. An excerpt: The Israelis found Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. He arrived in this country in 1952 from Spain. He was traveling with an Italian Red Cross document obtained through the Vatican’s D.P.-relief department, which qualified him as a displaced person. The document was in the name of

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