A Silhouette in Iridescent Motion

A duck glides in iridescent motion under a bridge in Lazienki park in Warsaw, Poland; on 28 April 2009.

As to that which was, is finding new life in Poland; since the onslaught of that which ocurred from the Holocaust.-HRM Deborah

Initialling of an agreement between the government of the Republic of Poland and the government of the United States of America

regarding the placement in Poland of anti-ballistic defensive interceptor missiles

Press release of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Saturday 16 August 2008, by Emanuele G. - 3 letture


On 14 August 2008 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an agreement between the government of the Republic of Poland and the government of the United States of America was initialled in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, regarding the placement in Poland of anti-ballistic defensive interceptor missiles. The agreement was initialled by Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Kremer and Under-Secretary of State in the US State Department John Rood.

The initialled agreement is an important step in the development of strategic relations between Poland and the United States.

Piotr Paszkowski

MFA Press Spokesman

US reached missile shield deal with Poland?

Warsaw and Washington have reached a preliminary deal on basing elements of a controversial US missile shield in Poland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced Thursday.

Washington aims to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland plus a radar facility in the neighbouring Czech Republic by 2011-2013 to complete a system already in place in the United States, Greenland and Britain.(Story)

'Gate to Hell'

Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, holds the hand of a Holocaust survivor as they take part in a Peace March at the Nazi Concentration Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 30 April 2008 in Krakow, Poland.

From 1942 Auschwitz became the biggest center for the mass extermination of Jews. Figures vary but a conservative estimate puts the number of murdered Jews at an approximate 1.5 million.

The entrance to Auschwitz I.The now notorious motto over the gate, "Arbeit macht frei" translates to: "Work makes you free." This is probably the most famous gate, associated to the Jewish Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...

9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."

At Auschwitz children were often killed upon arrival. Children born in the camp were generally killed on the spot. Near the end of the war, in order to cut expenses and save gas, cost-accountant considerations led to an order to place living children directly into the ovens or throw them into open burning pits.

So called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef Mengele, would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas.

During World War 2 only one man managed to get prisoners out of Auschwitz his name was Oskar Schindler.

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Commentary

Shedding the Tears

By HRM Deborah

When I was a young girl, I had the opportunity to know someone that had survived Auschwitz, while they had lost their whole family.

Even to this very day, I had never wished for the Jewish people to ever suffer this type of atrocity ever again. I will even go so far as to say, that both the Jewish and Palestinian people never suffer the sorrow of any heinous violence perpetrated against them, because they are Semantic in origin.

It has been in my thoughts a lot these days, how several times throughout history, that the Jewish and Palestinian people was subjected to suffering by some means together.

Even at this very time, there are people that wish to harm the Jewish and Palestinian people through lies and other types of manipulation, that is not only a falsehood, but also an outright despicable situation.

Especially in regards to the Palestinian people, saying they are a people of violence and wish harm to others, when this is the farthest from the truth; even to go so far as using terminology to sway certain people, to wish to hurt the Palestinian people.

For thousands of years the Palestinian people have always been a people that believed in love as well as peace and this virtue has never changed even to this very day.

Furthermore, accusing the Palestinian people of wishing to harm anyone is not only an insult, that while it is not true, is deployable to say the least.

May one day, the people of the world, learn to love and have peace for each other, so no one would ever wish to cause any harm to another, no matter who they are.

Peres Remembers the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jewish President Shimon Peres looks on during a meeting with unseen Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on 16 April 2008.

Polish Jewish resi Starving Children from the Warsaw ghetto.

Peres paid tribute on 15 April 2008, to Jews who took part in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi tyranny, saying there had never been a greater victory even though the resistance perished.

The Warsaw Ghetto Fights Back.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A family marching at the head of a column of Jews on their way to be deported during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

One of the most famous pictures of the Jewish Holocaust. German storm troopers force Warsaw ghetto dwellers of all ages to move, hands up, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April-May 1943.

Half of the six million Jews, who died in the Holocaust, were Polish.

Israel Attack's Polish Priest Over Accusations of Anti-Semitism

Israel: Condemn Polish Priests For Anti-Semitism

31 july 2007

By VANESSA GERA

WARSAW, Poland — Israel is urging Polish and Roman Catholic authorities to condemn a prominent priest over reported anti-Jewish comments, which its ambassador described yesterday as the worst case of anti-Semitic speech in Poland in decades.

Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, who runs a conservative press and broadcast empire that includes the Catholic station Radio Maryja, was allegedly caught on tape suggesting that Jews are greedy and that President Kaczynski of Poland is subservient to Jewish lobbies.

The remarks allegedly were made in the spring, but they only surfaced this month in the weekly magazine Wprost. Father Rydzyk himself has rejected accusations of anti-Semitism and said he "didn't intend to offend anyone."

Israel's ambassador to Poland, David Peleg, said the statements mark a setback in the progress Poland has made toward Jewish-Catholic reconciliation and in fighting anti-Semitism since the fall of communism.

He said extensive diplomatic efforts were under way to persuade Warsaw to condemn the priest.

"I think that this is the strongest anti-Semitic remark here in Poland since 1968," Mr. Peleg told the Associated Press. "We hope that the government, on one hand, and the Catholic Church, on the other hand, will make a statement condemning this anti-Semitic remark."

Mr. Peleg has asked the office of Prime Minister Kaczynski, as well as the foreign and justice ministries, to take action.

"I definitely think that one of the aims of Father Rydzyk is to damage the very important dialogue which Catholics and Jews have developed," Mr. Peleg said, adding that he would also meet today with a bishop in Lublin in charge of Jewish-Catholic dialogue.

So far, Poland's leaders have withheld comment, saying they were waiting to see if the tapes were authentic.

But the Rome-based Redemptorists — the missionary order to which Father Rydzyk belongs — supported him last week in Nasz Dziennik, a daily newspaper that belongs to Father Rydzyk's press and broadcast empire.