Very disconcerting. From WJC: Pope Benedict XVI has received members of a Polish delegation that included Tadeusz Rydzyk, the owner of the controversial Polish radio station “Radio Maryja”. The Redemptionist priest has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitic broadcasts and a recent attack on Polish president Kacynski and his wife. According to a report in a Polish newspaper that is part of Rydzyk’s media group, the group of Polish pilgrims was received by the Pope at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The paper “Nasz Dziennik” reports that the Pope thanked the listeners of Radio Maryja for their prayers
Read More +Today in Jewish History – Tammuz 5
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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1946, Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, with no other place to go, returned to their hometown of Kielce, Poland — and were attacked by the townspeople in a bloody pogrom that left 42 Jews dead and 80 wounded. The pogrom began when rumors spread that Jews had kidnapped a Polish child. Polish policemen and soldiers entered the Jewish residences and began the violence; the Jews were then attacked outside by mobs in a fray that lasted five hours. Some 3 million Polish Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust, yet this pogrom — occurring 15 months
Read More +Exclusive: Images of a lost community
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This is the incredible story of a collection of 178 family pictures, which were hidden in the walls of a house in Poland just before the Holocaust, only to be found some 60 years later and be returned to their rightful owners http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3387796,00.html#n
Read More +Before the Holocaust there were three and a half million Jews living in Poland, and there was a loss of property estimated to be worth 30 to 40 billion dollars. Unlike Germany, Austria, and France which have arranged for the restoration of stolen Jewish property to their heirs, Poland has not done this. Minister Rafi Eitan wants to involve the Israeli government in negotiating with Poland and other Eastern Europe countries for restitution of Jewish property. The Foreign Ministry does not want the government to be involved, fearing it might cause difficulties with relations between Israel and these countries. Eitan
Read More +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
Read More +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
Read More +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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