Jews of Poland
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A Day in Warsaw 10 minutes Part of the video montage Jews of Poland, this short documentary captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Warsaw. Narrated in Yiddish with English subtitles, it presents the viewer with important images of daily life in Jewish Warsaw as it was before the Nazi invasion. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Flight Is Diverted by a Prayer Seen as Ominous Last week a flight attendant on a US Airways Express Flight traveling from La Guardia to Kentucky alerted the cockpit of a suspicious passenger. |
Facing Today | January 25, 2010 |
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A Yearning to Belong Sholom Aleichem believed that before Jews could return to the Jewish land, they had to “return to the Jewish People.” It was an idea that struck a chord with Jews throughout Eastern Europe—including many with little or no interest in Zionism. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of young people, Jews and Christians alike, joined youth groups, clubs, unions and other organizations that sprang up throughout Poland. These groups gave members a sense of purpose and satisfied their yearning to belong. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Building Bridges in Changing Times Like his father and grandfather before him, Henryk Goldszmit spent much of his life trying to bring together Poles and Jews. But in the 1930s, he was finding it harder to do. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap Pawel used to be a neo-Nazi skinhead. The New York Times writes that Pawel grew up a baptized Catholic in Poland “in a bleak neighborhood of concrete tower blocks in Warsaw in the 1980s.” Pawel and his friends “reacted to the gnawing uniformity of socialism by embracing anti-Semitism. |
Facing Today | April 13, 2010 |
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Economic Competition A worldwide depression began in the 1920s and continued through much of the 1930s. A depression is a time when economic activity slows; more and more businesses decrease production and lay off workers. In a poor country like Poland, the effects were devastating for everyone, Christian and Jew alike. As Poland’s economy worsened, many people turned to leaders who saw the crisis as an economic war between us and them. Wanda Wasilewska, a Polish writer, described the effects of such attitudes: |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Finding Common Ground Not long after the Nazis occupied Poland, many Jews began to realize that the political, social, and religious differences that separated them before the war were no longer meaningful. As Emmanuel Ringelblum reminded them, “The Germans did not distinguish between the Zionists and the Bundists. They hated the former and the latter as one, and wanted to annihilate them both.” Although Jews in Warsaw and other cities agreed on the need to oppose the Germans, they disagreed on the “right” way to do so. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Let the World Know! The Great or Grosse Aktion began on July 22, 1942 and continued with occasional pauses until September 12, 1942. In August, during one of those “pauses,” two prominent Jews met with a courier for the Polish underground and begged him to alert the world to what was happening to the Jews of Poland. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Night by Elie Wiesel |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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So Many Miracles 48 minutes |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
