Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published August 24, 2022
As college classes wound down last spring, Michael Schmitz started looking for a summer internship. With no prospects on the horizon, he found a much different college break experience: volunteering in Poland for Ukraine relief efforts.
Schmitz, 21,...
In debate over Holocaust collaboration, Poland seeks complete exoneration, which doesn’t comport with the historical recordPoland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading the entertainment-streaming...
The walls, higher in memory than in reality, form the central path that leads to the gas chamber. Stacks of inorganic, valueless furnace slags raked from the top of molten steel are strewn about a vast acreage, lifeless. I stood at the entrance to the...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published October 31, 2012
Maria Szapszewicz never erased the Auschwitz number tattoo the Nazis had put on her arm, nor did she erase the memories of the Holocaust from her mind. Instead, Mrs. Szapszewicz shared those memories through moving poetry and essays, a published book...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 6, 2012
The political, historic drama “Little Rose” is one of the many excellent films in this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. “Little Rose,” in Polish and French with English subtitles, is also one of several Polish (or part ly Polish) films...
By Michael Berenbaum, JTA
• Published June 4, 2012
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama made a simple and very basic mistake when he spoke of Polish death camps during the presentation of a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter who was among the first to report German...
WARSAW -- Fifteen years ago, Pawel Bramson was a skinhead shouting anti-Semitic and racist slogans during soccer matches. He hated Jews and blacks – simply, he says, because you need someone to blame for what’s wrong in the world. These days he...
NEW YORK—Bernhard Storch grew up in a Jewish family in Silesia, near Poland’s border with Germany. Like many Polish Jews, he moved quickly from town to town as the Nazis advanced in 1939, trying to avoid capture. Before long he was caught and sent...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 28, 2012
Mark Gubernik, Jesse Kavadlo and Steve Chervitz have taken the old adage “you’re never too old to rock and roll” and set it in action. Approaching middle-age, married and all dads, the three recently formed a rock band and will be playing their...
NEW YORK -- A new Anti-Defamation League poll found that anti-Semitic attitudes in several European countries have increased marginally since 2009. The poll, which was released Tuesday, reported slight increases in overall anti-Semitic attitudes in a...
Vandals damaged and scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the family tomb of leading Polish writer, editor and former anti-Communist dissident Adam Michnik. Polish Radio reported that the defacement of the tomb of Michnik’s father, a prominent Jewish communist,...
An annual march of remembrance was held to mark the 69th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto. The march retraces the steps of one that took place on March 13 and 14, 1944, when some 6,000 Jews living in the Krakow ghetto in the Podgorze...
