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Works in the IDF and Security Forces Department for the International School for Holocaust Studies.
"Forgotten Neighbors": Poles Commemorate Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
Three years ago, during one of his training sessions on the Donets River in southeastern Poland, the Olympic kayaker and canoeist Dariusz Popiela spotted the remains of a cemetery along the riverbank. As history buff, Popiela approached the site and discovered a visible tombstone and other broken tombstones covered with grass. The next day he returned to the scene with a lawn mower "full of sadness and emptiness," in the face of the encounter with a community that had disappeared. This... Continue reading