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Spotlight on Sigmund Rolat and The Exhibit of "The Jews of Czestochowa"
December 5 -9,Washington
D.C.
Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda- located North of the main
Capitol building at Delaware & Constitution Ave,
N.E.
Please note: Photo ID required at door for admission
Weekdays - 9.00am-4.30pm
Fridays - 9.00am-2.00pm
January
22 -
April 2,
South Orange,
New Jersey
Seton Hall University
For
the further details of the exhibit go to www.czestochowajews.org.
About
Sigmund Rolat
(more)
12.12.2005r
My
Holocaust
Menachem M. Stern
16, Ha'neviim st.
Ramat Ha'Sharon 47279
ISRAEL
My holocaust is about memory.
A memory of a child, thrown into a world that went mad.
Memory that haunts me ever since.
(more)
12.12.2005r
Chancellor
Gordon Brown wants to send children and teachers from
every school in the UK to visit Auschwitz. But is what
happened there too gruesome for young minds... or a
necessary lesson in good - and evil?
By Lindy McDowell
19 November 2005
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news
Auschwitz-Birkenau was among Hitler's
mos torious death camps - and the museum which annually
attracts millions of visitors from all over the world
to this, the site of the most terrible mass murder in
the history of humanity, undoubtedly plays a vital role
in educating people about an era and a crime we should
never forget. But should we encourage our children to
visit such a place?
(more)
12.12.2005r
Poland
and Israel
From Radio Polonia
Sent: Thursday, November 24,
2005
By Lucyna Artymiuk
Poland has taken over a decade
to rebuild relations with Israel, broken off under communism.
Now it's hoped that the country is coming to be seen
as Israel's gateway into the European Union.
(more)
12.12.2005r
Letter
from Andrew Rajcher from Australia
After his visit to Poland
Authorized by the Author
28 November 2005
Hi gang....
Tomorrow I leave Poland and head
back to Melbourne. I can't believe that almost 5 weeks
has gone by so quickly and that I'm going home already
- so much done, yet so much still to do!
(more)
12.12.2005r
Sixty
one years ago
By The Associated Press
Ha'aretz
26/11/2005
www.haaretz.com/
New York City, U.S. - Sixty-one
years ago, Joanna Zalucka hid a young Jewish girl in
her bedroom for eight months, saving the child from
the Nazi killing spree in their native Poland.
(more)
10.11.2005r
THE
LOST WOODDEN SYNAGOGUES
OF POLAND AND EASTERN EUROPE
Sunday, November 6, 2005, 2
PM
at the Lodzer Centre Holocaust
Congregation,
12 Heaton Street, Toronto near Bathurst and Sheppard,
tel. 416-636-6665
Dear Members and Friends of the
Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation
The 25th Anniversary Holocaust
Education Week in Toronto has already started.
We are proud to be part of it again.
(more)
10.11.2005r
Blessed
were the Jewish children
By MICHAEL VALPY
Saturday, October 29, 2005
From Saturday's Globe and
Mail
A renowned Canadian scholar of
the Holocaust has pulled back the veils on one of the
Second World War's most painful and inflamed controversies
- the role Pope Pius XII played as Jewish leaders struggled
to reclaim Jewish children from Roman Catholics to whom
they had been entrusted for safekeeping from the Nazi
death camps.
(more)
10.11.2005r
Jews
and Catholics: Beyond Apologies
David Novak
Copyright (c) 1998 First Things
89 (January 1999): 20-25.
Something very significant has
happened to Jewish-Christian relations, especially Jewish-Catholic
relations. Last March, the Vatican issued the statement
"We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,"
which was prepared under the direction of Edward Idris
Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Church's Commission
for Religious Relations with the Jews, and introduced
by Pope John Paul II himself (see FT, May 1998).
(more)
10.11.2005r
Lodz
remembers its 200,000 Holocaust victims
Ha'aretz
26-25 October 2005
Net-like sheets of fabric hang
from the ceiling of the Radegast train station on the
outskirts of Lodz in central Poland. The fabric depicts
black-and-white pictures of Jews who were once residents
of the city - random photographs of youths, couples,
families, and people in the streets.
(more)
14.10.2005r
REMEMBRANCE
DAY CONCERT
November 10, 2005 at 8:00pm
In St. Joseph's Church
(corner of Cumberland & Wilbrod Streets) Ottawa.
Featuring University of Ottawa
Orchestra under the baton of
David Curie.
Soprano soloist Maria Knapik
The concert will be dedicated
to the millions of victims of the Second World War.
Victims of Holocaust, genocide and mass murder in all
occupied countries.
The University of Ottawa Orchestra
will perform, supplemented by select members of The
Ottawa Symphony especially invited for this important
performance. The Orchestra will be under the direction
of University of Ottawa Professor and Director of the
Ottawa Symphony, David Currie. The vocal soloist will
be Maria Knapik.
(more)
10.11.2005r.
Letter
from the Editor-in-Chief
Rzeczpospolita
Warsaw, 26th January 2004
Dear Sir,
Dear Colleague,
Acting as the Editor-in-Chief
of the "Rzeczpospolita" daily, the most renowned
opinion-forming Polish daily newspaper that has always
focused on truth and the compliance with the ethical
principles also in the sphere of journalism I have noticed
with pain and grief that in many renowned newspapers
all over the world a term "Polish concentration
camps" appears time and again with the harm to
the Poles.
(more)
05.10.2005r
His
Excellency Ambassador
of Israel to Poland
David
Abraham Akiva Peleg
Accompanied
by the diplomats and
employees of the Embassy
of Israel wish you
a good, successful
and peaceful year 5766.
The
Jewish New Year (Rosh
Hashana) begins on
the 3rd of October
in the evening.
(more)
05.10.2005r
Ambassador
of the Republic of
Poland in Canada
Ambassadeur de la République
de Pologne au Canada
Ottawa,
21st of September 2005
Mr.
Giles Gherson
Editor in Chief
The Toronto Star
Dear Sir,
I
am writing to you to
express my concern
and to protest against
the expression used
in the article published
on the 21st September
2005 edition of "Toronto
Star" on page A1 and
A6 treating on the
passing of Simon Wiesenthal
entitled "Nazi-hunter
sought 'justice, not
revenge'". It is written
in the aforementioned
article that: "Wiesenthal
was also instrumental
in the arrest of Franz
Stangl, commandant
of the Polish death
camps at Treblinka
and Sobibor".
(more)
05.10.2005r
Ronald
Harwood,
scriptwriter
of The Pianist and
now Oliver Twist,
tells Jasper Rees about
his friendship with
the remarkable
Roman
Polanski
Telegraph.co.uk,
30 September 2005
A
few years ago, Roman
Polanski saw a play
in Paris about the
conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler's
relationship with the
Third Reich. He had
already acquired the
rights to the memoir
of Wladislaw Szpilman,
a Polish-Jewish pianist
who through resilience
and luck managed to
cheat the Nazis of
one more victim.
(more)
05.10.2005r
Conference "700
Years of Jewish Presence
in Cracow"
September
26, 2005 Monday
taking
part in the conference
are outstanding experts
and historians from
Poland, Israel, Great
Britain, Germany and
the USA.
(more)
23.09.2005r
The
Polish-Jewish Heritage
Foundation
presents
The
Films of Agnieszka
Holland
September
24-25 at the Bloor
Cinema. Toronto
Oscar-nominated
director Agnieszka
Holland will speak
about her life and
work at the Polish
Jewish Heritage Foundation's "Agnieszka
Holland Film Festival".
(more)
23.09.2005r
Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal
dies
Witness to Holocaust
was 96
By
Adam Bernstein,
Washington Post
September
21, 2005
WASHINGTON
-- Simon Wiesenthal,
the controversial Nazi
hunter who pursued
hundreds of war criminals
after World War II
and who was ce l to
preserving the memory
of the Holocaust for
more than half a century,
yesterday at his home
in Vienna, the city
that was his base of
operations. He had
a kidney ailment and
was 96.
Called
the ''deputy for the
dead"
and ''avenging archangel" of
the Holocaust, Mr.
Wiesenthal after the
war created a repository
of concentration camp
testimonials and dossiers
on Nazis at his Jewish
Documentation Center.
The information was
used to help lawyers
prosecute those responsible
for some of the 20th
century's most abominable
crimes.
(more)
23.09.2005r
Between
Cracow, London and
Manhattan:
Viewing Jewish history
through a multicultural
lens
By
Eva Hoffman
Eva
Hoffman (London) grew
up in Krakow, Poland.
After emigrating to
Canada in her teens,
she went on to study
in the United States
and received a Ph.D.
in English and American
literature from Harvard
University. Subsequently,
she worked as senior
editor and writer on
several sections of
the New York Times,
serving for a while
as one of its regular
literary critics. She
has also taught literature
and creative writing
at various universities
in the US. and Britain.
She is the author of
'Lost in Translation:
A Life in a New Language',
'Exit Into History:
A Journey Through the
New Eastern Europe',
'Shtetl: The History
of a Small Town and
an Extinguished World'.
Her first novel, 'The
Secret', was published
in 2001.
(more)
23.09.2005r
American
Jewish Committee
Honors Poland President
Kwasniewski
September 16, 2005
- New York
President Aleksander
Kwasniewski of Poland
was honored last night
by the American Jewish
Committee with the
organization's highest
award, the American
Liberties Medallion.
(more)
23.09.2005r
Family
trip to Poland makes
for moving documentary
by
Dan Pine
staff writer
Jewish
News Weekly
August
26, 2005
PBS' "Hiding
and Seeking"
Menachem
Daum loves his sons,
but when he saw them
giving a wink to hatred,
he decided to do something
about it.
(more)
05.09.2005r.
Why
Poland matters
By
Rabbi Dow Marmur
Canadian
Jewish News
Each
time he returned to
Israel, he was asked
if anti-Semitism in
Poland is still prevalent.
"Yes," he'd
reply, "just as
in other European countries." He'd
add: "Polish Jews
are tied to their bad
memories and refuse
to free themselves
from them. They don't
want to see a different
Poland. I've the impression
that they don't put
similar questions to
those who return from
visits to Germany or
France."
(more)
05.09.2005r.
AROUND
THE JEWISH WORLD
Personal
ties spur philanthropist
to bring Poles, U.S.
Jews together
By
Carolyn Slutsky
JTA, August 17, 2005
RAKOW,
Poland, Aug. 17 (JTA)
- When Tad Taube decided
to create the Polish
Jewish Heritage Program,
a branch of his Taube
Foundation for Jewish
Life and Culture, he
did it for more than
philanthropic reasons.
(more)
05.09.2005r.
Personal
Ties To Poland Spur
Philanthropist
Carolyn
Slutsky
Special to the Jewish
Times
AUGUST
18, 2005
Krakow, Poland
When
Tad Taube decided to
create the Polish Jewish
Heritage Program, a
branch of his Taube
Foundation for Jewish
Life and Culture, he
did it for more than
philanthropic reasons.
"I was born in Krakow," Taube said. "I have linkages that I
feel positive about, and I wanted to make those linkages stronger."
(more)
05.09.2005r.
What
refugees do
By
MICHAEL BOYDEN
Jerusalem
Post. August 23, 2005
Has
anyone heard of Breslau?
My grandparents lived
there, and it was where
my late father spent
his childhood. Once
it was the third largest
city in Germany. It
boasted an ancient
university and a tradition
of German scholarship
that produced eight
Nobel Prize winners.
But then came World
War II.
(more)
05.09.2005r.
POLISH
NATIONAL IDENTITY
AND DEFORMED MEMORY
FROM 1945 TO THE
PRESENT: MYTHOLOGIZING
THE POLISH ROLE IN
THE HOLOCAUST
Radio
Free Europe (archives)
By Alix Landgrebe
Nationalism
plays an important
role in Polish society.
The discourse in and
about national paradigms
is crucial even for
many Polish intellectuals,
and national questions
are omnipresent in
everyday Polish life.
The period of Nazi
occupation is often
discussed in connection
with national identity.
Today, we are witnessing
a revival of nationalist
ideas from the 19th
century that were long
taboo under socialism.
Although national ideas
were strongly present
during the socialist
era as well, they were
articulated differently.
Nationalist thought
involved an especially
deformed memory of
the past; many issues
could not be openly
discussed. By the end
of the 1940s, Jewish
history, and the Holocaust,
or Shoah, in particular,
became such a forbidden
topic.
(more)
05.09.2005r.
Zupya
from Auschwitz is
Naomi from Lohamei
Hagetaot
David
Rapp
Haaretz,
19 August 2005
The
testimony given by
Vera Alexander at the
trial of Adolf Eichmann
in Jerusalem focused
on her memories of
the women's camp at
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Visual, subjective
memories, of the sort
that muted and faded
over the years. Alexander,
a native of Slovakia,
took the witness stand
on June 8, 1961. Gideon
Hausner, prosecutor
in the trial, presented
the court and the witness
with an album of drawings
that depicted everyday
life in Auschwitz.
(more)
01.08.2005r.
1944:
Uprising to free
Warsaw begins
bbc
news, August 1, 2005
The
Polish Home Army
has begun a battle
to liberate Warsaw,
the first European
capital to fall to
the Germans fifty one
years ago.
At
1700 local time, the
code signal
"Tempest" was
given and there was
a wave of explosions
and rifle fire throughout
the city.
(more)
01.08.2005r.
FROM
THE EDITOR
Polemics
between Rabbi David
Lincoln who considers
Poland as the victim
of the Nazis and Fanya
Gottesfeld Heller who
claims that Poland
was a victimizer. Below
you have three texts
from the New York Jewish
Week:
The
Rabbi's article, Fanya
Gottesfeld Heller's
opinion and the Rabbi's
reply.
Poland
As Victim, Not Victimizer
David H. Lincoln
Jewish
Week
New
York, June 17, 2005
I
was pleased to read
recently in Haaretz
that the Israeli government
is considering changes
in the March of the
Living youth trips
and concentration camp
visits. Polish organizations
have complained about
the ignorance of youth
leaders, with the result
that young people (joining
many Jewish adults
in the United States)
cannot distinguish
between the German
killers and Polish
victims, and hold the
Poles responsible for
the fate of Polish
Jews.
(more)
01.08.2005r.
Life
in a Jar trip to
Poland
Article by Jessica
Shelton, Meagan Whitehead
and Megan Stewart
Picking
Up Passengers
When
we began this project
six years ago, we had
no idea where life
would take us. A man
in our early audience
told us, "you
are on a journey, picking
up passengers, to make
a difference in the
world." We
continue on this journey
and find more and more
people wanting to make
a difference. During
the last of May and
the first part of June
we traveled to Poland
for a total of nine
days. So here are paragraphs
on Irena, presentations,
projects and the press.
(more)
01.08.2005r.
INTERVIEW
Story
of a Lifetime
The
Warsaw Voice No 27
(871)
July 3, 2005
Teacher
Norman Conard and student
Jessica Shelton from
the Irena Sendler Project
Talk to Marcin Mierzejewski
(more)
01.08.2005r.
Poland's
Fascination with
Jews
By
Jeff Jacoby
In
a country with no more
than a wisp of Jewish
life, where does such
an appetite for things
Jewish come from ?
(more)
29.07.2005r.
A
project for the establishment
of a high school
in Warsaw
which would teach the
history, and culture
of the Polish Jews.
The
Society of Friends
of the First Social
High School (the first
independent school
in Poland that was
created in 1989) intends
to open a new school
in September, 2006.
The curriculum of this
school will include
teaching the history,
culture and traditions
of Polish Jews and
will also offer the
study of Yiddish and
Hebrew languages.
(more)
18.07.2005r.
FINNISH
ARCHITECTS LAHDELMA
AND MAHLAMAKI ARE
WINNERS OF ARCHITECTURAL
COMPETITION FOR THE
MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY
OF POLISH JEWS IN
WARSAW, POLAND
NEW
YORK- JUNE 30th
An
international jury
convened in Warsaw
to announce that Finnish
architects Ilmari Lahdelma
and Rainer Mahlamaki
have won the architectural
competition for the
building of the Museum
of the History of Polish
Jews.
(more)
18.07.2005r.
Who
Owns Bruno Schulz?
Poland
stumbles over its Jewish
past
Benjamin
Paloff
Originally
published in the February/March
2005 issue of Boston
Review
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR29.6/paloff.html
8
On November 19, 1942,
the great Polish author
Bruno Schulz left his
home in the Jewish
ghetto of Drohobycz-according
to the generally accepted
version of the story,
he had gone to fetch
a ration of bread-and
was shot to death by
a German SS officer.
The author of two critically
acclaimed short-story
collections and a graphic
artist of growing renown,
Schulz had survived
the Nazi occupation
as long as he did under
the protection of Felix
Landau, a vicious Gestapo
officer who fancied
himself a patron of
the arts. Landau was
fond of Schulz's drawings,
which frequently depict
dreamlike scenes of
sexual humiliation,
and he had ordered
Schulz to decorate
his son's playroom
with images from fairy
tales. During the last
year of his life, Schulz
received special permission
to leave the ghetto
to paint Landau’s frescoes.
(more)
18.07.2005r.
FROM
THE WEB EDITOR
Mrs.
Paula Sawicka, President
of the Open Republic
(Otwarta Rzeczpospolita)
– an association to
fight anti-Semitism
and xenophobia created
a couple of years ago
in Warsaw - sent us
a copy of the Theses
presented by her to
the OSCE conference
in Cordoba. Two members
of the Polish-Jewish
Heritage Foundation’s
Board, Wanda Muszynska
and I, are also members
of this organization.
I believe that the
activities of this
organization may be
of interest to our
members and readers:
Theses
For the OSCE Conference
on anti-Semitism
and other forms of
Intolerance
Cordoba,
8 & 9 June 2005
(more)
18.07.2005r.
Poles
work with Israelis
to restore Jewish
past
Amiram
Barket
Haaretz.com
May 5, 2005
More
than 22,000 Israeli
teenagers took part
in Holocaust remembrance
trips to Poland last
year, an all-time record.
Participation in delegations
to Poland under the
auspices of the Israel
Defense Forces has
also soared, from two
delegations in 2001
to 15 this year. But
alongside the standard
visits to death camps,
a growing number of
Israelis, second- and
third-generation Holocaust
survivors, are involved
in a more independent
and profound manner
with restoring Poland's
Jewish past.
(more)
16.07.2005r.
Polish
'Dreyfus' gets officer
rank
Arieh
O'Sullivan
THE
JERUSALEM POST
May 16, 2005
Chaim
Ben-Ya'akov, a lieutenant
in the Polish Army
who was stripped of
his rank by Poland
after the Six Day War
because he was a Jew,
was given back his
officer's bars Monday
by visiting Polish
Defense Minister Jerzy
Szmajdzinski.
(more)
16.07.2005r.
A
priest embraces his
hidden Jewish roots
Ingrid
Peritz
Globe
and Mail
May 11, 2005
Father
Romuald-Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel
is a living embodiment
of an apparent contradiction:
He is a Catholic priest
and, as he discovered
as an adult, also a
Jew.
(more)
23.06.2005r.
FROM
THE WEB EDITOR:
I hope one of the readers
might identify the
family in the photo
that I received in
the below e-mail
from Viktor Lewin:
-----
Original Message -----
From: viktor lewin
Sent: Friday, June
03, 2005 4:47 AM
Subject: Losice Family.
Shalom
Friends ,
Need help in identifying
the family in this
photo. There may be
a Steinman connection
, however I am not
100% positive. The
reverse side of the
photo is stamped -
Sz. Szpialter , Losice
.
Thank you, Viktor.
Losice Mystery Photo
23.06.2005r.
Auschwitz
survivors support
Holocaust education
center
From
Radio Polonia
May 9, 2005
More
than 150 former prisoners
of the Nazi extermination
camp of Auschwitz have
signed a document founding
the International Centre
for Education about
Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
(more)
23.06.2005r.
Bearing
The Unbearable
For
CUNY students, only
one Jewish, March
of the Living was
horrific ordeal.
Michele
Chabin - Israel Correspondent
Jewish Week. 13 May
2005
Jerusalem
- Therese Collins never
imagined she would
major in Jewish studies
in college.
"I
came to Jewish studies
by accident," said
Collins, 20, a student
at the City University
of New York, explaining
how a black Catholic
woman from the Caribbean
island of Antigua came
to be standing outside
the walls of the Old
City, next to the Jaffa
Gate.
(more)
23.06.2005r.
'Help
us die honorably
like the heroes of
the Warsaw Ghetto'
Etgar
Lefkovits
www.Jerusalem
Post.com
May. 4, 2005
"Help
us die honorably. We
want to follow in the
footsteps of the heroes
of the Warsaw Ghetto.
We are ready," reads
the letter, smuggled
out of a Nazi labor
camp near the Polish
city of Lublin in the
months after the Warsaw
Ghetto was demolished
by the Nazis.
(more)
23.06.2005r.
Why
British intelligence
refused to believe
all reports of the
mass murder of Poland's
Jews
By
Michael Evans
Times,
6 June 2005
www.timesonline.co.uk
Information
about the gas chambers
was kept from Churchill
because officials would
not accept the evidence
of witnesses
BRITAIN’s
intelligence chiefs
refused to accept witness
reports of the German
massacre of Polish
Jews in the Second
World War and discounted
the existence of the
Holocaust, according
to an authorised account
based on official archives.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
Towering
figure of John Paul
II
New
York Times
11
June 2005
The
last time the Rev.
Andrzej Kurowski was
at the Vatican, he
met Pope John Paul
II, who greeted him
by asking where he
was from. "Brooklyn,"
Kurowski said. The
pontiff's eyes lit
up. "Ah, Brooklyn," he
replied.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
Reflections
on returning from
Poland
Dana
David
The Canadian Jewish
News
June 9, 2005
Before
arriving in Poland
as a university participant
on the March of the
Living, I had several
expectations.
I
expected to cry all
day, every day, for
a week. I expected
to find the answers
to my many questions.
I expected to understand
the atrocity that occurred
only six decades ago.
I expected to leave
Poland feeling depressed.
Prior to leaving Toronto,
these expectations
seemed realistic to
me. While in Poland
however, it occurred
to me how idealistic
they really were.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
Hartford
Federation leaders
go on March of the
Living Mission to
Poland and Israel
Harriet
J. Dobin
Jewish Ledger
Archives
DAY
ONE: Mincha at Auschwitz
Twenty-nine
men and women from
Hartford got on a tour
bus at Krakow Airport
this morning, bound
for a death camp in
southern Poland. If
it had been 60 years
ago, perhaps only three
of us would have made
it out of that camp
alive. Today, we smelled
the air of Auschwitz,
walked its muddy tracks
and remembered the
1.1 million slaughtered
Jews who never made
it out of the Auschwitz
gates of hell.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
From
Poland to Israel:
reveling in nationhood
David
Lazarus
The Canadian Jewish
News, May 26, 2005
JERUSALEM
- March of the Living
participants who landed
in Israel last week
after being in Poland
could not kiss the
tarmac as in the past
because the gleaming
new airport connects
aircraft directly to
the terminal.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
Peter
Brook: A Biography
Reviewed
by Arnold Aronson
The New York Times
May 25, 2005
Most
of theater history
belongs to actors and
playwrights, but in
the 20th century the
stage became largely
the domain of the director.
From Meyerhold and
Reinhardt through Chreau
and Sellars, visionary
and charismatic individuals
have brought bold conceptions
to theater and opera,
reinterpreting classic
plays, reinventing
approaches to acting
and investigating the
relationship of the
spectator to the stage.
In the second half
of the 20th century,
no director has had
more influence or recognition
than Peter Brook.
(more)
17.06.2005r.
YOM
HASHOAH FEATURE
As
March of the Living
By Carolyn Slutsky
Poles learn about what
was lost
KRAKOW,
Poland , May 3 (JTA)
- About 20,000 people
from around the world,
Jews and non-Jews alike,
are expected in Poland
for the 15th March
of the Living this
week.
The
annual trip, which
began in 1988, takes
Jewish high school
students - and, increasingly,
adults and non-Jews
- to Poland, where
they spend a week visiting
Holocaust sites. Many
groups then continue
to Israel to see the
homeland of the Jewish
people.
(more)
18.05.2005r.
FROM
THE WEB EDITOR:
In
mid April I had another
car accident in which
my leg was broken.
I am still in hospital
so will resume posting
new publications in
June once I am back
home - IB
26.04.2005r.
Julian
Tuwim
We Polish Jews...
August
1944, London
For
my Mother in Poland
or her most beloved
shadow
I
can hear the question
immediately: 'Why US?'
A question that is
not baseless. Jews
ask me, the ones whom
I always told that
I was a Pole, and now
the question will be
asked of me by the
Poles, for the greatest
part of whom I have
been and will be a
Jew. This is my answer
for one and the other.
(more)
26.04.2005r.
The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,
by Marek Edelman
"The
Ghetto Fights," by
Marek Edelman
published in a pamphlet
called The Warsaw Ghetto:
The
45th Anniversary
of the Uprising
Interpress
Publishers, pp. 17-39
[undated]
I
am not acquainted with
the young author of
this booklet, one of
the leaders of the
Jewish Uprising. He
brought me a typewritten
copy, and I read it
all at once, unable
to interrupt my reading
for a single moment.
... "I
am not a writer, "
he said. "This
has no literary value. "
However,
this non-literary narrative
achieves that which
not all masterpieces
can achieve. For it
gives in serious, purposeful,
reticent words a record,
simple and unostentatious,
of a common martyrdom,
of its entire involved
course. It is also
an authentic document
about perseverance
and moral strength
kept intact during
the greatest tragedy
in the history of mankind.
(more)
25.04.2005r.
Pope's
apology to Jews ranks
as most significant
for church
Some Jewish leaders
hoped papal amends
would be more specific
By
Detroit News wire services
Monday.
April 11, 2005
VATICAN
CITY -- Pope John Paul's
plea for God's forgiveness
for the Catholic Church's
past sins -- including
its treatment of Jews,
heretics and women
-- is one of the most
significant acts of
his papacy.
(more)
25.04.2005r.
Poland's
Progress
By
Andrew Baker
New
York Post
January 26, 2005
When
Polish President Lech
Walesa organized the
50th anniversary commemoration
of the liberation of
Auschwitz 10 years
ago, he so angered
Jewish leaders and
survivors they held
their own ceremony
one day earlier. This
year, world leaders
will participate in
one program coordinated
with Jewish organizations
and Jerusalem's Yad
Vashem Museum. It benefits
from President Alexander
Kwasniewski's diplomatic
skills and a decade
of change in Poland
and the region.
(more)
25.04.2005r.
The
Pope with a Jewish
Heart
The
Pope John Paul II
transformed the
Catholic-Jewish Relations
Steve
Lipman, staff writer
The
Jewish Week, April
8, 2005
Shortly
after a little-known
cardinal from Poland
was elected spiritual
head of the Catholic
Church in 1978, Rabbi
Arthur Schneier received
a call from a network
television correspondent
asking for comment.
The correspondent,
who "equated Poles
with anti-Semitism," assumed
that Rabbi Schneier,
a Holocaust survivor
and president of the
Manhattan-based Appeal
of Conscience Foundation,
an ecumenical human
rights organization,
would comment negatively
on the new pope, the
rabbi recalls.
(more)
25.04.2005r.
The
Greatest Confession
in 2,000 Years
by
Jeff Jacoby
JewishVoice.com
April 2005
The
pope's legacy to
the Jews.
As
the world mourns the
death of Pope John
Paul II, we present
this commentary written
in March, 2000.
The
Baltimore Catechism
instructed generations
of American Roman Catholics
that the marks of the
church are four: It
is one, holy, catholic,
and apostolic.
(more)
25.04.2005r.
Piotr
Gillert, New York
Times Against "Polish
Death Camps"
From
RZECZPOSPOLITA (Warsaw)
March 24, 2005:
Below
is a translation of
two articles by Piotr
Gillert, on the "Polish
death camp" issue
and the image of Poland
in American media,
published in the Polish
daily RZECZPOSPOLITA.
The translation is
by Charles Chotkowski
(more)
17.04.2005r.
Why
I Restore the Jewish
Cemeteries of Poland
by Norman L. Weinberg,
PJCRP, Executive Coordinator
Sarasota-Manatee
Jewish News, March
2005
Why
would anyone want to
reclaim and restore
long-abandoned cemeteries
located in remote former
shtetls where there
are no Jews? Why care
about the dead when
the needs of the living
are so great? Why restore
cemeteries in a country
in which so many Jews
perished and which
was so deeply antisemitic?
These and many more
questions are asked
of me since first taking
on restoration of my
ancestral cemetery
of Ozarow, and later
leading efforts to
restore all of Poland's
Jewish cemeteries.
The following provides
some answers and is
also an account of
the formation and purposes
of the Poland Jewish
Cemeteries Restoration
Project.
(more)
08.04.2005r.
We
Deeply Mourn
the Passing
of
Pope
John Paul
II
an
Outstanding
Historic Figure,
a Distinguished
Pole and a Friend
of Jewish People,
Deeply Devoted
to Christian-Jewish
and Polish-Jewish
Reconciliation
The
Polish-Jewish
Heritage Foundation
of Canada
|
From
the Editor :
We
wish to thank Peter
Jassem, the President
of our sister organization,
Polish Jewish Heritage
Foundation of Canada
(the Toronto Chapter),
for placing this obituary
notice in the 'Canadian
Jewish News'
08.04.2005r.
MUSEUM
OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH
JEWS
Mission
to Poland June 26 -
July 5, 2005
Dear Friend,
The
Museum of the History
of Polish Jews is honored
to invite you to join
the 2005 Mission to
Poland. The Mission
will take place from
Sunday, June 26 through
Tuesday, July 5 2005
and will offer a unique
exploration of a country
to which most American
Jews trace their roots.
...
(more)
30.03.2005r
FROM
THE WEB EDITOR
Two
years ago, I received
a "letter to the
editor" from Mr.
Viktor Lewin concerning
the devastated Jewish
cemetery in Losice
(in eastern Poland).
Viktor expressed his
plan to restore it
with the financial
help of some survivors
or children of survivors
born in that area.
He explained that there
were "hundreds
of Matzevot lying in
the backyard of a residence
in Losice that had
been brought by the
Nazis after Jewish
cemeteries were raided
in Losice, Mordy and
Sarnaki, to serve as
paving stones for a
courtyard at this residence".
(more)
14.03.2005r
Jerusalem
Post Breaking News
from Israel
Etgar
Lefkovits
THE
JERUSALEM POST
Mach
3, 2005
The
construction of a Museum
of the History of Polish
Jews in Warsaw is a
'debt' that Poland
owed both the Jewish
people and the Polish
nation, Warsaw Mayor
Lech Kaczynski said
Wednesday.
(more)
14.03.2005r
The
Man Who Defined Truth
Martin
Davis
Alfred
Tarski: Life and Logic
Anita
Burdman Feferman and
Solomon Feferman
Cambridge
University Press, 2004
All
people use logic in
making their way through
the world. Scientists
in particular use it
in reasoning about
relations among experimental
results and theoretical
explanations. The first
attempt to make logic
itself the subject
of rational inquiry
was by Aristotle in
his theory of the syllogism.
(more)
14.03.2005r
Holocaust
survivors reunite
to share memories,
celebrate survival
By
Tal Abbady
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel
8
March 2005
"I
was young, I was strong,
I was witty," said
79-year-old Katz. "But
I was most of all lucky.
What more can I say?
There were people who
were far better educated.
I had a brother who
was smarter, more cultured
than me. He died."
(more)
14.03.2005r
Hundreds
gather in Tamarac
to celebrate Holocaust
survival
By
Sallie James
Staff
Writer
Sun-Sentinel.com
February 28 2005
TAMARAC
· Sixty years after
the Holocaust, the
horrifying memories
can still bring tears
to Tamarac resident
Sonia Weikes' eyes.
(more)
14.03.2005r
A
Passover in Rome
By
Aharon ben Anshel
The
Jewish Press
3
March 2005
At
Rose Kryger's funeral,
her son Meir, now a
physician in Winnipeg,
was surprised to learn
from the rabbi's funeral
oration that his mother
had some bottled up
secrets and had yearned
to be a writer. After
the week of shiva,
he discovered a spiral-bound
notebook and some audio
cassettes in a drawer.
(more)
23.02.2005r
Arthur
Miller, 89, a voice
of conscience
By
Michael Phillips
Chicago
Tribune
February
12 2005
The
man who wrote "Death
of a Salesman" died
Thursday. As Linda
Loman told the sons
of Willy Loman, that
sad and epic American
dreamer: Attention
must be paid.
(more)
23.02.2005r
From
H.E. Zbigniew Matuszewski
the Ambassador of the
Republic of Poland
in London
The
Guardian, 28 January
2005
Sir,
thank you for publishing
my letter (Poland's
people have nothing
to hide, January 27),
which was a reaction
to the opinions concerning
Poland, expressed in
Ian Black's article
(World Watch, January
24). However, I must
express my opinion
on yet another, even
more striking matter.
In one of the leading
articles, (Eternal
memory, January 26)
you wrote that during
the World War Two,
the French Jews were
rounded up and shipped
into cattle trucks
to the Polish gas chambers
and crematoria'.
(more)
23.02.2005r
Dignitaries
and Auschwitz survivors
remember the Shoah
- and liberation
by Toby Axelrod and
Carolyn Slutsky,
The
JTA, February 10, 2005
The
last time Trudy Spira
was in Auschwitz, she
was 12 years old. The
day of liberation
"is my second birthday
- I was reborn on that
day,"
said Spira, who came
from Venezuela with
her son Ernesto, 48,
to show him the place
that robbed her of
her childhood.
(more)
23.02.2005r
Poles
rediscover Jewish
heritage
Adam
Easton, BBC correspondent
in Warsaw
BBC
News, 7 February 2005
Medieval
Krakow is the spiritual
home of Poland's Jewish
revival.
Today
the city is home to
only a tiny number
of Jews, but it is
rich in historical
relics, including six
synagogues and two
Jewish cemeteries.
(more)
07.02.2005r
60th
anniversary of liberating
KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
27th January 2005
Address at the state
ceremony dedicated
to the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of
the Nazi concentration
camp Auschwitz Birkenau
Wladyslaw
Bartoszewski
(more)
07.02.2005r
60th
anniversary of liberating
KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
27th January 2005.
Address at the state
ceremony by the President
of Israel
Moshe
Katsav
(more)
07.02.2005r
60th
anniversary of liberating
KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
27th January 2005.
Address at the state
ceremony by the President
of the Foundation for
the Memory of the Shoah
SIMONE
VEIL
(more)
07.02.2005r
60th
anniversary of liberating
KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
27th January 2005.
Address at the state
ceremony
WLADIMIR
PUTIN
(more)
07.02.2005r
60th
anniversary of liberating
KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
27th January 2005.
Address at the state
ceremony dedicated
to the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of
the Nazi concentration
camp Auschwitz Birkenau
by the President of
the Republic of Poland
ALEKSANDER
KWASNIEWSKI
(more)
07.02.2005r
Legendary
RFE Polish Service
Director
Jan
Nowak Dead at 91
Radio
Free Europe / Radio
Liberty
Washington
/ Prague - January
21, 2005
Jan
Nowak, the legendary
fighter for the Polish
resistance during World
War II who went on
to head the Polish
service of Radio Free
Europe for a quarter
of a century, died
Thursday evening, January
20 in a hospital in
his native Warsaw.
He was 91 years old.
(more)
07.02.2005r
Auschwitz,
60 Years Later
Toby
Axelrod and Carolyn
Slutsky
Jewish
Time Online
JANUARY
29, 2005
Oswiecim, Poland
The
last time Trudy Spira
was in Auschwitz, she
was 12 years old. The
day of liberation
"is my second
birthday - I was reborn
on that day,"
said Spira, who came
from Venezuela with
her son Ernesto, 48,
to show him the place
that robbed her of
her childhood.
(more)
07.02.2005r
Statement
on Poland and the
Auschwitz Commemoration
January
30, 2005
New
York American Jewish
Committee Executive
Director David A. Harris
issued the following
statement today:
(more)
07.02.2005r
Erna
Rosenstein
Surrealist
artist at the forefront
of Poland's postguard
avant-garde
Timesonline.
co.uk
January 17, 2005
The
surrealist artist and
poet Erna Rosenstein
was at the forefront
of the Cracow avant-garde
for half a century.
Her mixed-medium creations,
sometimes sinister,
often playful and nostalgic,
were glimpses into
dream-worlds.
(more)
19.01.2005r
From
PBS Previews
Auschwitz:
Inside the Nazi State
AUSCHWITZ:
INSIDE THE NAZI STATE,
airing in conjunction
with the 60th anniversary
of the concentration
camp's liberation,
is a comprehensive
look into the decisions
that led to the creation
of history's largest
mass murder site. The
programs air on PBS
Wednesdays, January
19-February 2, 2005.
(more)
19.01.2005r
Poland
Selects New Chief
Rabbi
Carolyn
Slutsky
Special
to the Jewish Times
January
08, 2005
The
Polish Jewish community
has turned to an American
as its new spiritual
leader, filling a post
left empty since 1999.
(more)
19.01.2005r
Krakow
Jewish conference
aims to empower volunteers
in Europe
JTA,
23 Decembre 2004
By:
Carolyn Slutsky
After
the dual destructions
wrought by the Holocaust
and communism, Eastern
European Jewish communal
life was little more
than a memory 15 years
ago.
(more)
19.01.2005r
Warsaw
Ghetto Diary Found
From
New York Jewish Week
12/10/2004
Staff
Report
A
six-page diary kept
by a Jewish woman during
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
- the only known Jewish
account to be written
in the midst of the
27-day revolt - was
discovered in the archives
of the Ghetto Fighter's
House, a museum in
northern Israel.
(more)
19.01.2005r
Poles,
Jews must learn to
just be friends
Cezary
Podkul
The
Daily Pennsylvanian
6 December 2004
'My
great-grandparents
lived in Poland, and
they didn't get treated
very well over there,
so why shouldn't Poland
just fall off the map
into the sea?"
(more)
19.01.2005r
The
Puzzling Poet
By
Marcin Mierzejewski
4
November 2004
In
his writings, he mocked
official stances, contested
the traditional notion
of the artist's role
in society, and caused
indignation for questioning
national values. One
hundred years after
his birth, the writer
was put on a national
pedestal and deemed
"great." In
Poland, this year is
celebrated as the Year
of Witold Gombrowicz.
(more)
19.01.2005r
Appreciation:
Susan Sontag 1933-2004
'The
world has lost a
truly brilliant mind
- and I have lost
a precious friend'
Ed
Vulliamy
The Observer
Sunday January 2, 2005
It
is daunting to try
to find words with
which to lament the
parting of someone
whose command of language
was as absolute as
that of Susan Sontag.
Words such as 'aesthete',
'essayist' and 'thinker'
(her own least favourite)
get in the way. Susan
Sontag preferred simply
the description of
'writer'.
(more)
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