dark passion blossoms as magical paintings of. your romance do 60 minutes from d.w. . i'm not laughing at the germans well i guess sometimes i am but most end up in with the top of the bunch and i think deep into the german culture. you don't seem to get from this drama j.l. you tell us it's all that bad no time right show to join me i mean the captivity of the host took to. the jewish service of morning prayer shot for retaliation and warsaw's main synagogue led by the chief rabbi of poland and even to michael should rick. oh yeah. the fact that there's noise behind me because the people who are prayed are

now having breakfast together is a sign. that there is jewish life resurgence of jewish life in poland that's little less than a miracle. this was the country that nazi germany chose as its focus for a systematic genocide. during the holocaust some 6000000 jews died across europe we don't talk a lot about auschwitz so. christmas this person has a as a gift a great gift. we desperately needed the rabbi. and others. fundraising.

they said it. might shatter the catholic bishop among other public figures attending an interfaith service in the polish capital warsaw. the host chief rabbi michael should rick. the answer. should. be. a prayer that anti semitism will disappear. change doesn't happen overnight. it takes time but as long as you see you're going in the right direction that gives you gives you energy and gives you. hope that sustains michael should rick's work. this is the office of the chief rabbi of poland warsaw's knows that synagogue is home to the american born rabbi. and never find what you want when you need it

the son of a new york rabbi should rick 1st visited poland in the 1970 s. in search of his jewish roots at the end of the cold war the young man now a rabbi himself emigrated there with the communist regime had long been hostile towards jews. this is the 1st time that a jewish prayer book was reprinted in poland. after the fall of communism this is the regional page was from a g. $26.00 this is probably from. $9192.00 to. 30 years old warsaw has numerous jewish institutions including a flourishing school. the school caters to some 200 pupils visit us. on in the americas children among them like thousands of other polish jews the 40 year old started discovering her jewish heritage when she was already an adult. thanks to the dedication of chief rabbi michael should read. this school in which

their jewish identity is respected and fostered is a great support for you on a knee america her husband and their 3 children. but the records show. so far still for her it's never never milk for i think this hole and the money my know it's a few said real minority so it's real sometimes it feels like you know we only had the where on. the school flourishes with financial support from the united states the american billionaire ronald s. lauder founded the institution in the 1990 s. . his motive to encourage a renewal of jewish religious life in poland. we needed somebody to go to poland. i heard about this rabbi named michael she's rich so we brought him over we saw him and we said this is the right person it was

interesting is that the men who got to poland. he became much more from. the much more polish. he started to lead for which monica and stanislav were faithful to their jewish heritage even during the communist era as we had began before that you know we had an exam they are much better there and this money cause a book the 2nd one by the end of the summit there is the reason mothers involved on the research their jewish ancestry some 90 percent of the jewish population of poland was slaughtered during the german occupation. those few who survived often did so by adopting christianity. the old cemeteries are the sole witness to poland's extensive jewish population before the show. ringback

then to learn anything jewish with it and. feel jewish and when we were children because we were not introduced into it. chief rabbi michel should rick on a visit to southern poland. and the dutch. rabbi should rick is constantly on the move even when traveling he's multitasking today he's conferencing with the jewish community in pittsburgh. just steps aside. they're setting up an exchange program for young jews from poland and the u.s. i think that our biggest challenge i'm not very practical and it's still it's less but still existing on follow up is we don't necessarily have the professional staff to follow up the way we should. so many projects and sometimes it seems like too

much for one person. who said it was going to be easy. i can say that the jewish community of poland in the last 30 years has gone from a stagnating dying dysfunctional jewish community to a reemerging vibrant dysfunctional jewish community. or still dysfunctional but at least now we're alive we're vibrant we're creating. today there are once again jewish communities in all of poland's larger towns with several 1000 members . nobody knows exactly how many some say there are up 212000 practicing jews. this renee's on says given rise to new business ventures kosher food for instance. rabbi shubrick is visiting 3 of those businesses today only one was willing to be filmed the prophet of vodka distillery that. the production for the of the of this

the production. rabbi should drink checks but the body is produced in conformity with jewish law. for instance no flavorings with gelatine may be used or any other ingredient derived from pig. so this is the scene here actually some when we see it signed in hebrew by our scotia supervisor it's. with a a lock here here and here and here and here. so we know that when we come back to the passover the passover production that it really is from that alcohol. most of the production is destined for export only a fraction for local consumption so these to share something important which means . people who. are. paid it's not going to be could communicate if you think about politicians jewish people but i think

most people don't know that they are from jewish communities so i think. this is true in progress so. you have. information to get information about. roads and they can raise very well. i'm very happy that i wasn't the only jew who won through live as a jew in both of them because otherwise it would have been very lonely. the rabbi the with the present. very point it's kosher for passover. so far our impressions have been positive but jewish gentile encounters don't always run as smoothly lets go. relations with the polish government have been strained recently. the nationalist right wing government introduced legislation in 2018 that offended jewish sensibilities deeply. it makes it illegal to claim that poland

collaborated with nazi germany and perpetrating the holocaust. it basically was the the good name of poland the polish shouldn't be blamed for things that they didn't do but there was then a great concern is but they were poles they did bad things and how we going to deal with that. jewish pushback met with the way but anti-semitic rhetoric in the media . didn't name that staffer the legislation was controversial keystone opponents on the one hand polls feel insulted when the press in europe or international media referred to the german concentration camps as the polish death camps and it hurt the poles you have to understand that the point of the polish people themselves suffered during the 2nd world war and never touching to give any shelter. at the end there was an unnecessary. problem that

as said. more or less is no longer you know people remember it but it's no longer a wound it's a scar. when international jewish organizations protested the legislation warsaw held discussions with the israeli government and made some substantial amendments. rabbi should rick likes to focus on the positive aspects of life in poland. that poland is represented by people like daria's p.l.o. for instance. a member of the polish olympic team. is as busy as the chief rabbi but he still finds time to get involved in the restoration of the jewish cemetery. like the one in southern poland for many years the cemetery was

completely neglected. we'll do something here to improve things 1st a launch an appeal on facebook we already have permission i just thought i'd have more time now to do something otherwise i'd have come much sooner to get this fixed up. book yellow once to clear the cemetery of brambles and restore its former. several months later the reopening after a lot of hard work. a memorial plaque is a wrecked and listing the jewish residents of the small village who were killed by the nazis. rabbi should rick especially appreciates the commitment of these volunteer workers. it's a result of life of a group of reason was closed after several centuries in august 94 to 2 on trying to provoke was the nazis started there i heard the phrase.

and there. you. are not. yet her daughter. but. i know. that there are initial gives like this all over poland for the past 30 years the restoration work has been focusing on a few more towns or villages each year michael should rick considers this one of his most important tasks. my relatives of the people buried here often come from overseas to visit. my 2 kids my niece and nephew my sister my brother in law. my wife fighting over there somewhere. it's an obligation of every good. not only to

germany it's an obligation of every good human being to remember what happened in our midst but if you think about that then perhaps the 1st thing we should do is make sure that every victim of the holocaust has a great britain's religious dimension the best of our ability we'll never get close to you have to graze for 6 we understand that each other by justice he gets 100 more like 30 more even want to. there's a tremendous value by it sometimes said of michael should rick that he's rabbi of the living and of the dead in poland. from their mothers if they're at home with yana look asha and their 3 children. and nina. the couple have international contacts you know ana is an actress and recently appeared in a swedish film. husband is a theater director and has been working in slovakia. to caution the myths that

living openly as a jew in poland sometimes makes him feel insecure. listening to roger coleman after a war you have to endure after war in poland where the 68 because it was the moment when. my family had to go go go out from ball arms the so-called march events of $968.00 were a further trauma for polish jews the communist party declared the student protests a jewish rebellion there was an upsurge in anti semitism. many polish jews who had survived the shoah now left in fear of their lives. my life our war was the person 1st person who told me that mary's know to some of his men in poland but now i'm. talking to myself where you are and where he was. sure ainge

way. jewish kids into our school. the jewish community in poland is on a journey that started 30 years ago in a small village in the south of the country. at an adult education center here michel should rick organized seminars on jewish life. today it's a hotel and guest house. it's the 1st time in many years that rabbi should rick has been back to the place where it all began i mean since people 1520 years i know for i reckon. maybe some ladies were thinking. it's impossible to. be jewish in poland and not feel the presence of the apps it's. the generation born after the shoah often didn't know anything about their jewish roots and even those

who knew never had a chance to experience they never had a shot before. not some some did but many didn't. and so it was really a 1st chance was also a chance just to be openly jewish. you know you don't have to worry about anybody making a comment or wondering what it meant so. in a lot of ways it all started here. we had to. look to these kids' movies that they would not kids. through in their thirty's or forty's. to get. the raise and. so we said. to sing this song. to his children all those. who remember the song heard the song please join.

first then 20 to 80 kids 80 of the 100 was singing a song. just sung to them by their mother so they probably never heard before or since that. was one year later the latter foundation financed the 1st jewish courses in response. stanislav and monica craig esky were 2 of the 1st participants. at last they felt able to practice their jewish faith openly no need to hide and be discreet as in the communist era stanislav even led community prayers sometimes. many of the participants were holocaust survivors. during the war there were 2 of

them so they were not adults yet some of them were little children or babies some of there were 8 or 10 and the survived to know either because they were hiding somewhere or there were given to. both the crate yet skis were born after the war. this was very helpful to make me more. knowledge to make me know how do the things that regular jews do because this is not something that i got from my family also this is true about all almost all people of my generation on the on so those who lived in both. were jewish in some way in the seventy's or in the eighty's they were mostly various he made it a very far from. jewish involvement. you know 8 weeks a year 6 that routers. a

makeshift synagogue was constructed in the corner of the education center for jewish religious like poland it was like starting from scratch. everything from. basic things in judaism should be kosher holidays history to what does it need to be jewish how do you feel about being jewish and then also getting to know each other icebreakers and sometimes fun things that we have everybody reenact the biblical scene. and on friday nights we would put all the different ventures that we could find and we'd have the prayer outside which is really i think everyone's favorite moment of the week. appropriately the seminar buildings where this jewish renaissance began are located

just an hour by car the former german concentration camp auschwitz birkenau. were nazi henchmen carried out the largest act of mass murder in history to take place at any single location. but i should think it's harder to visit this place than easier. when it really became harder. and so there's 3 with 2 things one is so once my daughter was born i think in a natural way when you walk here when you don't have children you think that i could have i survived and once have a child if they could cure it could your child have survived and their frequent becomes a completely different experience. for

3 or 4 or 5 and this is the song. sometimes the rabbi visits auschwitz birkenau several times a month many visitors from america and israel ask to meet him at the site where their relatives were killed and he's also the auschwitz foundation's senior religious representative the foundation that administers the concentration camp museum. says keeping the memory alive is crucial. it seems that in europe the shock of the holocaust of this genocide the genocide in history. kind of silenced those people who refused to learn the lesson and it seems now 75 years later for many people do know the lesson there are those who never knew the lesson and now want to speak. in a loud voice about. denying the holocaust belittling the holocaust.

michael should ricks uncle henry star an austrian jew from vienna was an auschwitz survivor in august 1904 he was sent to auschwitz birkenau on one of the last transports to leave the concentration camp. as. a platform of its. slaughter. this. shot of. it's in front. this is the place where. you know we go like this and my my uncle told me the story when they arrived on the train from tories and shot into raising. the world war one veterans were treated

better because there was some level of jewish self-government enter a cinch that some level but these 3 of the veterans were treated better and mangled they were lined up 5555 and they were in the same line as some vets world war one veterans and mengele sent the veterans straight to the gas chambers and my uncle and his brother followed immediately with them figuring they were going to a better place based on their experience in theresienstadt and then mengele had his guards kicked my uncle and his brother to the other side saying that you jew can't decide your fate those you couldn't even jew could even decide to be killed. and so ironically mengele saved my uncle's life. which is bizarre. then restart survived auschwitz and emigrated to the us where he married and had children michael should rick learned a lot from his uncle to what extent. you know that the

ideas that you just i very much took away from that i think took away from that that you just you can't be indifferent as something is wrong you have to try to fix it. it's december christmas and warsaw. christian traditions are over. little hard polish culture. the jewish community is celebrating hanukkah the festival of light . simply put it was the place i was supposed to be. even after 30 years there are still lots to do in this country where jewish life

was virtually a radical aided by nazi germany. well looks like it's still the place i'm supposed to be. in a. c half. that.

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