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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Museum commemorating Warsaw ghetto uprising to open in April 2013

Agnieszka Rudzinska, the head of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, says museum will be open to visitors in April 2013, the 70th anniversary of the doomed uprising by Warsaw's Jews against the Nazis.

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swastika graffiti- AP - 02092011
Another Jewish memorial defaced in Poland, in latest string of anti-Semitic incidents

Vandals rearrange bushes at Bialystock cemetery by rearranging bushes forming the Star of David into a Nazi swastika.

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John Demjanjuk - AP - 12.4.2011
Demjanjuk makes no final statement at war crimes trial

Judges reject defense requests to seek more evidence in the accused Nazi death camp guard's trial, which has lasted for nearly 18 months.

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Holocaust memorial May 2, 2011.
Israel honors Poles determined to preserve Jewish memory

Israeli Embassy in Poland joins award of local figures responsible for preservation of Jewish heritage sites in Poland, as well as programs of education and information promoting better understanding between Poles and Jews.

by Michael H. Traison 0 comments
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Whoever controls the past

It would behoove those of us who count ourselves among Poland's sincerest well-wishers - those of us who feel intimately and inexorably bound to the land of our forefathers - to draw attention to its travesty in history.

by Laurence Weinbaum 0 comments
A presidential exoneration

Sixty-three years is a long time to wait for exoneration, but on this April 14, the Poles finally received it - from none other than our own President Shimon Peres.

by Efraim Zuroff 0 comments
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