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IT IS FORTUNATE THERE ARE SUCH PEOPLE...

5 August 2010

Father Roman Indrzejczyk I was a small boy in Żychlin near Kutno when I witnessed the war. I was faced with human terror, helplessness, suffering, degradation, persecution, harm... I saw the ghetto as well – and...

THE RIGHTEOUS ARE AMONG US ...

17 August 2010

Adam Daniel Rotfeld Sartre once wrote that hell is other people. He was probably right. However, this popular post-war intellectual, philosopher, existentialist, should also have added: paradise and happiness on earth are...

PUSHED BEYOND THE MARGIN: GERMAN ANTI-JEWISH LEGISLATION IN THE OCCUPATION OF POLAND

5 August 2010

Professor Jan Grabowski From the very beginning of the occupation of Poland, the Germans introduced a series of regulations and decrees aimed at achieving a drastic marginalization of the Jewish population. The exemption of...

THE FACES OF THE RIGHTEOUS

17 August 2010

Dr Jacek Leociak The public debate on Polish-Jewish relations during the war, including the rescuing of Jews by Poles, has often been red hot, but just as often it has suffered the unfortunate tendency of rising above the hard foundation...

WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS TEACH US

27 July 2010

Professor Władysław Bartoszewski During World War II the attitude of Nazi Germany towards the Polish people was indisputably negative; however we must recognize a specific difference: whereas every Pole was under threat of death,...

THEY SAVED MORE THAN JUST LIVES

5 August 2010

Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland How to write about the Righteous Among the Nations? Words fail. Words are inadequate to describe or convey the goodness that they exude. Simply put, the Righteous are an example for all of us...

THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

5 August 2010

Konstanty Gebert The Righteous will ourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will ourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit...

The Remembrance of Loss

17 August 2010

Professor Jerzy Szacki I store with pride the Yad Vashem Medal, on which my name and surname were inscribed alongside the name and surname of my mother. However, I have doubts whether I am fully entitled to such pride. It...

WHAT DO WE OWE TO THE RIGHTEOUS?

17 August 2010

Professor Feliks Tych We will never know the exact number of ethnic Poles who took part in saving their Jewish fellow-citizens from the death at the hands of the German invader during WWII. The number of those identified by name is...

MY TWO MOTHERS

1 July 2010

Elżbieta Ficowska I belong to the youngest generation of survivors. I was one of those who was born only to die, one of those from whom the right to live was taken away in earliest infancy. I am here today, so many years...

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