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Like Anne Frank, Polish Girl Kept War Diary. It Remained Locked For Years
As the Nazis strengthened their grip on Europe in 1939, Renia Spiegel, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in Poland, turned to a new companion. "Today, my dear Diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship," she wrote on Jan. 31 that year. For more than three years, Renia documented her life in more than 650 handwritten and densely filled pages.
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Poland Pulls Out Of Israel Summit Over Minister's Remark On WW II Role
Poland's prime minister on Monday cancelled Warsaw's participation in a Jerusalem summit, accusing an Israeli minister of "racist" comments about the actions of Poles during the Holocaust, further souring relations between the two nations.
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Polish Lawmakers Back Holocaust bill, Drawing Israeli outrage, US Concern
Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".
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Britain's Royal Couple Meets Holocaust Survivors In Poland
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate visited a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland on Tuesday where they heard the personal accounts of Holocaust survivors
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Poles Mark 70 Years Since Brutal Post-Holocaust Pogrom
Seventy years after dozens of Polish Holocaust survivors were bludgeoned to death in the Kielce Pogrom, psychologist Bogdan Bialek is intent on reconciling Poles and Jews.
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Poland Bids to Reclaim Forgotten Past as Haven for Jews
Poland, the country on whose soil Nazi Germany carried out the darkest acts of the Holocaust, is starting to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
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Holocaust survivors recall most vivid memories
In an annual ritual, Israel will come to a standstill on Monday morning for the country's official Holocaust remembrance day.
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Record Holocaust commemoration march in Hungary
Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust drew a record 25,000 people on Sunday as part of events marking 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Hungarian Jews in World War II.
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US Holocaust survivor meets Polish saviour 70 years on
A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.
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Poland's Warsaw ghetto uprising survivor recalls 'hell on earth'
Simcha 'Kazik' Rotem was just 19 years old when the Nazis stormed the Warsaw ghetto, facing almost certain death in the gas chambers.
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Holocaust dead honoured in Auschwitz march
Thousands from across the globe marched solemnly on Monday at the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to honour the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust during World War II.
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Like Anne Frank, Polish Girl Kept War Diary. It Remained Locked For Years
As the Nazis strengthened their grip on Europe in 1939, Renia Spiegel, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in Poland, turned to a new companion. "Today, my dear Diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship," she wrote on Jan. 31 that year. For more than three years, Renia documented her life in more than 650 handwritten and densely filled pages.
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Poland Pulls Out Of Israel Summit Over Minister's Remark On WW II Role
Poland's prime minister on Monday cancelled Warsaw's participation in a Jerusalem summit, accusing an Israeli minister of "racist" comments about the actions of Poles during the Holocaust, further souring relations between the two nations.
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Polish Lawmakers Back Holocaust bill, Drawing Israeli outrage, US Concern
Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".
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Britain's Royal Couple Meets Holocaust Survivors In Poland
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate visited a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland on Tuesday where they heard the personal accounts of Holocaust survivors
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Poles Mark 70 Years Since Brutal Post-Holocaust Pogrom
Seventy years after dozens of Polish Holocaust survivors were bludgeoned to death in the Kielce Pogrom, psychologist Bogdan Bialek is intent on reconciling Poles and Jews.
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Poland Bids to Reclaim Forgotten Past as Haven for Jews
Poland, the country on whose soil Nazi Germany carried out the darkest acts of the Holocaust, is starting to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
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Holocaust survivors recall most vivid memories
In an annual ritual, Israel will come to a standstill on Monday morning for the country's official Holocaust remembrance day.
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Record Holocaust commemoration march in Hungary
Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust drew a record 25,000 people on Sunday as part of events marking 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Hungarian Jews in World War II.
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US Holocaust survivor meets Polish saviour 70 years on
A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.
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Poland's Warsaw ghetto uprising survivor recalls 'hell on earth'
Simcha 'Kazik' Rotem was just 19 years old when the Nazis stormed the Warsaw ghetto, facing almost certain death in the gas chambers.
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Holocaust dead honoured in Auschwitz march
Thousands from across the globe marched solemnly on Monday at the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to honour the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust during World War II.
