Polish woman and her children Righteous Among the Nations

26-08-2010   

25 August, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, held a ceremony posthumously honoring a Polish woman, Teodora Olszewska, and her children Anna, Kazimierz and Józefa as Righteous Among the Nations.read more »

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Pig’s head attack on a Lithuanian synagogue
National Day for Indian Martyrs

Was doctor Wladislaw Dering a hero or was he a criminal?

30-08-2010   

Was doctor Wladislaw Dering a hero or was he a criminal? “Newsweek” got to some shocking testimonies. Some claim that the Auschwitz prisoner-doctor saved their lives, others accuse him of brutal crimes.read more »

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Polish-Jewish Triptych

13-08-2010   

After sixty years, texts that were written in the Warsaw ghetto whiel constantly faced with death have been published by the Council for the Protection of the Memory of War and Suffering.read more »

Janusz Korczak (1878-1942)

13-08-2010   

Janusz Korczak – pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit. Pedagogue, physician, writer, publicist. He grew up in an assimilated, wealthy Jewish family from Warsaw.read more »

Dalai Lama offers his condolences to the people of Poland

14-04-2010   

His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered his condolences to the people of Poland for the loss of President Kaczynski, and all the others who died in a tragic air crash in a letter to the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent on April 10th, 2010.  read more »

Pesach

31-03-2010   

Pesach (Passover) commemorates the departure of Israelites from Egypt, symbolically marking the birth of the Jewish people as a nation led by Moses. The week-long holiday is a joyful celebration of spiritual freedom as well as physical liberation from slavery.read more »

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