Polish Jews invalidate The New Yorker’s accusation that Poles killed 3 million Polish Jews

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Masha Gessen’s 25 March 2021 article “The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust” published in The New Yorker on 25 March 2021 caused considerable outrage from Poles and Polish Jews alike by presenting an all-too-familiar recitation of anti-Polish falsehoods. Dr. Piotr Cywinski, an historian and director of the Auschwitz Museum and…

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Wladyslaw Szpilman – Prolific composer whose musical talents enabled him to survive World War 2

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This prolific Polish-Jewish composer, who created hundreds of songs and many orchestral pieces, passed away in July 2000, two years before the film “The Pianist” premiered. He miraculously escaped the Germans’ destruction of Polish Jews and survived the war in Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman began his first piano lessons with his mother and went on to…

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Stanislaw Ulam – Brilliant mathematician with multiple innovations including the design of the H-Bomb

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StanisÅ‚aw Ulam (1909 – 1984) was a Polish-Jewish mathematician and nuclear physicist who later became a U.S. citizen. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and theorized nuclear propulsion. StanisÅ‚aw Ulam (1909 – 1984) Ulam…

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