Holocaust
Bilateral ties were severely damaged last year after Warsaw passed law effectively preventing restitution to the heirs of property seized by the Nazis.
According to Gustavo Zentner, president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, “you would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person in Winnipeg who doesn’t have a friend or relative buried there.”
There is little chance he will serve time because of his age.
“What began as one man’s opinion,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, “would become state policy of Nazi Germany 22 years later, which led to the systematic murder of one-third of world Jewry.”
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman hails legislation banning the public display of the symbol as a “thunderous blow” to neo-Nazis.
Jozef Walaszczyk hired 30 Jews to work at a potato-flour factory and kept them alive by bribing a German official.
“Wine with Adam” with Adam Scott Bellos and guests Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz
Officials described the series of raids in towns near Quebec as a “national security operation.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said the armed guards, the exclusive focus on the Holocaust and no contact with Polish students were giving Israelis a “negative image” of Poland.
The tombstones were found during renovations in the area; historians and Catholic priests are asking the landowners to stop construction.
The decision comes after Poland demands changes to educational content, and disagreement over security arrangements.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and its Jewish Community Relations Council issued a statement saying it has been working with the city of Kent since January to address the situation.
