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Joseph Fiennes takes on a Jewish identity
Merav Yudilovitch
Published: 17.07.07, 16:57
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1. The Kielce pogrom
Isragirl   (07.18.07)
The Kielce pogrom refers to the events that occurred on July 4, 1946, in the Polish town of Kielce, when 37 Polish Jews were murdered and 82 wounded out of about 200 Holocaust survivors who had returned home after World War II. Among the victims were former prisoners of concentration camps as well as Jewish soldiers and Russian Jews on their way to Palestine;
2. How about a film about CURRENT antisemitism?
Ignacio ,   Zaragoza, Spain   (07.18.07)
would it be too long?
3. J. Fiennes
graham ,   Germany   (07.18.07)
"jewishness" can't be too new to him - he played a Jewish Soviet commissar in "Enemy at the Gates" Sounds like this will be a good film to see - Graham
4. re: 1.
Polish reader ,   globtrotter   (07.24.07)
the kielce pogrom refers to the soviet provocation - Soviets wanted to draw attention OFF THEIR murders in Eastern Poland - where Polish army's officers and whole inteligentsia were killed - that happened about the time when Nurymberg started and when those Soviet crimes could be easily revealed) - and so soon-to-be KGB killed some Jewish peeps and said Poles did it. Then, basically, Poland, was sold to Soviets by her FORMER allies - GB and US. And, according to historic sources I read, KGB murdered 46 Jews, not 37. pr
5. To Isragirl
Tomas ,   baltimore, usa   (08.13.07)
I dont know if you were aware of this, but pretty much everyone I speak to knows all about the Kielce pogrom. Yet the massacres of civilians by Jews in Naliboki and Koniuchy, the transformation of the majdanek death camp into a NKWD death camp staffed by *among others, quite a few of Jews, is something the Jewish community doesnt want to face. Fine, dont face it. But stop pointing your fingers at others. If you cannot see you are spreading antisemitism, then you are blind.
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