Beit Polska continues to lead through its on-the-ground person-to-person relief for refugees. Bookmark this post to follow along with our weekly updates. There is also a more extensive discussion, Interim Plans and Guiding Principles regarding our plans for continued Ukrainian refugee aid. [maxbutton id=”7″ ] March 2022: A shipment of medicine and food […]
Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union
The implementation of the August 1939 accord between Germany and the Soviet Union (Molotov-Ribbentrop) erased Poland. The Jews in the Soviet controlled sector of the former Poland, many of whom fled eastward or were deported by Soviet authorities or simply exiled to vast howling regions found a paradoxical refuge. They were at a far remove from unfolding persecutions and murders the Germans planed. The narrative about the fate of the 200,000 Polish Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union remained peripheral to the study of the Holocaust for over 75 years. Dr. Adler’s ground breaking work has opened up these areas of study for the English speaking audiences.[…]
Interim Plans and Guiding Principles
Beit Polska/Poland Progressive Jewish Renewal To Support Ukrainian War Refugees
SHORT-TERM/IMMEDIATE TERM PLANS:
Numbers
Well over 1.5 million people from Ukraine have arrived in Poland since 2014. Another 1.5 people have crossed into Poland since the war began. Now there may be as many as 3 million people from Ukraine and large mass gathering near Lviv, Ukraine, hoping to return to their homes.[…]
Project Suitcases of Love : Chapter 1
Humanitarian Aid for Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
We wish Barbara Cook success in her mission to bring support and practical aid to women and children refugees fleeing into Poland from the war. Mrs. Cook’s determined effort to aid the people of Ukraine is an inspiring banner for other individuals to gather around in order to help and raise up the image of humanity.[…]
Refugees Then and Now
[maxbutton id=”7″ ] Sometimes being a Jew demands living in at least two, maybe more historical dimensions all at the same time. The town names, the fleeing refugees in Europe, Holocaust memories, and an inspiring President Zelensky of Ukraine trigger many incongruities. At this moment Putin’s attack on Ukraine and the brave defense by the […]
Polish Jewish Community is Supporting Ukrainian War Refugees
Polish Jews and their descendants throughout the world are watching the events unfolding in Ukraine with alarm for the people of Ukraine, Jew and Gentile, who are under attack. In Poland, we have received more than 500,000 of the one million of the elderly, women and children fleeing a war cynically instigated by Putin and […]
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