Poland

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• 9/6/2020
  

  A Coup of "Clerqs"?: Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Anne Applebaum's new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march. 

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  5/31/2020
  

  Polish Historian Ewa Kurek: Coronavirus is ‘Jewification’ of Europe

  Kurek is infamous for her radical arguments about the Holocaust, which include denial of Polish crimes against Jews. Now she invokes conspiratorial ideas about Jewish control of Europe.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/8/2020
  

  World War II in Europe Ended 75 Years Ago—But the World Is Still Fighting Over Who Gets to Say What Happened

  The Polish historian Jan Grabowski is one of many scholars whose work has been challenged and attacked by right-wing nationalists who wish to present a purely heroic version of how Poles acted during World War II. 

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  3/30/2020
  

  Helen Hunt Brings Trailblazing War Journalist to Life in "World On Fire"

  “I remember reading that she called her paper the next day and held the phone out the window [so they could hear the gunfire and chaos] and said, ‘It’s happening right now!'”

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Report
  2/11/20
  

  Poland’s forgotten civil strife and the struggle for Jewish statehood

  by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

  Israel and the Russian-Polish War of Narratives: How the contest for control of post-WWII Poland intersected with the struggle for Jewish statehood as two early arenas of the Cold War.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Poles Apart: Putin, Poland and the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  by Geoffrey Roberts

  As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, two of that war’s main victims – Poland and Russia – are once again embroiled in a highly emotional dispute about its origins. At the heart of the matter is the perennial controversy about the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/5/20
  

  Putin’s Big Historical Lie

  by Anne Applebaum

  In a series of comments in late December, the Russian president appeared to blame Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  12/2/2019
  

  Poland’s far-right leaders seek to criminalize World War II restitution

  Poland is the only major former Eastern Bloc country to do nothing to return private property confiscated by Nazis or nationalized by the communist government, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  11/11/19
  

  Poland asks Netflix to make changes to documentary about Nazi death camp guard

  Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/27/19
  

  The Poignant Wartime Diary of a Jewish Teenager Living in Poland Has Been Published in English

  Renia Spiegel was killed by the Nazis when she was 18 years old.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/17/19
  

  The populist rewriting of Polish history is a warning to us all

  by Estera Flieger

  Thirty years after communism ended, Poland’s past is again being manipulated for political motives, this time at a museum in Gdańsk.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  8/31/19
  

  Germany asks for forgiveness as Poland marks 80th anniversary of World War II

  Germany’s president asked for forgiveness for his country on Sunday for the suffering of the Polish people during World War Two as Poland marked 80 years since the Nazi German invasion that unleashed the deadliest conflict in human history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/1/19
  

  In Poland, Where History Is a Weapon, Leaders Commemorate World War II

  The event served to underscore the divisions in Europe and within Poland itself.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/25/19
  

  Last Polish Inmate From 1940 Transport to Auschwitz Dies

  The Germans caught Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• 3/27/19
  

  A Scorching Look at a Word War II Jewish Ghetto in Poland

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The play is a deep, rich and thoroughly frightening story of the Jews’ battle for survival in the city of Vilna.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  7-30-18
  

  The Ugly Side of Poland’s Booming Economy

  “The problem is that young people get used to hate speech. Some people don’t like chips, some people hate Coca-Cola—and some people hate the Jews.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-28-18
  

  More Devoted to Order Than to Justice

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Political moderates who counsel against confrontation and warn of incivility would abandon the tools that have changed America for the better.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  7-2-18
  

  Poland's Muslim Ban

  by Daniel Pipes

  Why have Poles responded so differently from Western Europeans to Muslim migration?

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• SOURCE: AFP
  6-27-18
  

  Poland amends controversial Holocaust law

  The amendment removes fines or criminal penalties of up to three years in prison for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish nation or state.