Received by email. The link to the article is in Polish, but here it is, translated into English: Warsaw commemorates the events of March 1968. [In March 1968, the Polish authorities provoked student demonstrations, which were utilized to escalate the government-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign started by the communist party leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka, in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in the...
More cemetery vandalism in Polish area
From JTA: A swastika defacing a Jewish grave in northeastern Poland is the third such desecration in the area this year. The swastika in Suwalki was discovered last week in the town’s Jewish cemetery. “We notified the prosecutor’s office, and the local authorities are not dealing with it since the cemetery just last month came under the ownership of the Jewish community in Poland,”...
Today in Jewish History – Elul 22
Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1939, during the Polish September Campaign, the Nazis occupied Krakow, Poland, a thriving Jewish community of 70,000 Jews. Jews were consigned to forced labor, and all Jews were required to wear identifying armbands. Synagogues were ordered closed and all their valuables turned over to Nazi authorities. In May 1940, the Nazis ordered a massive deportation of Jews from...
Update: Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Activities in support of the Museum continue here in North America this summer. Last Wednesday evening, 60 young professionals attended a fundraising cocktail reception at Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, here in New York City. The event was hosted by the North American Council in partnership with Chris Walenczak who, along with several of his friends, brought the crowd...
Jewish cemetery desecrated in Poland
A Jewish cemetery in southern Poland has been desecrated with around 100 tombstones daubed with anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi symbols, police said Monday. Police spokesman Adam Gaska said that the perpetrators were believed to be local youths, and that a criminal investigation had been opened in Czestochowa in the country’s south. “Numerous tombstones have been covered with insulting wording or...
Jewish woman takes up residence in Auschwitz
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Who is Irena Sendler?
Via “The Woman Who Loved Children,” Ladies’ Home Journal Print Edition, December 2006. Irena Sendler rescued 2,500 children from the Nazi death camps. Her story, writes Marti Attoun in Ladies’ Home Journal, was rescued by three Kansas teens. And her story is astounding, as awe-inspiring as that of Oskar Schindler, whose courageous acts of Nazi resistance became a book and...
Online, the shadow of Auschwitz
From Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against Cyber-Hate and of the Internet Task Force of the Anti-Defamation League, is a partner in the Washington office of Proskauer Rose LLP.: Human rights experts from around the world gathered in Poland recently in a bid to counterthe misuse of the Internet by hate groups. Sitting in a Warsaw conference room, the group viewed the latest...
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