{"id":63,"date":"2010-04-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/polish-plane-crash-holocaust-observance-brings-christians-jews-together.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T09:00:00","slug":"polish-plane-crash-holocaust-observance-brings-christians-jews-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/polish-plane-crash-holocaust-observance-brings-christians-jews-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Polish Plane Crash, Holocaust Observance Brings Catholics, Jews Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mourning for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/12\/world\/europe\/12poland.html?ref=world\">Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the dozens of other victims of Saturday&#8217;s plane crash <\/a>has brought together Poland&#8217;s Catholics and Jews, groups that haven&#8217;t shared the happiest history. In fact, Jewish leaders have called Kaczynski a &#8220;friend to Israel,&#8221; and today&#8217;s March of the Living at Auschwitz, which takes place every&nbsp;Yom Hashoah (the annual Jewish Holocaust commemoration), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motl.org\/resource\/statement-polish-president.htm\">will include a tribute to him<\/a>. Related stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/04\/11\/1011508\/israel-expresses-shock-condolences-to-poland#When:11:08:00Z\">Jews in Poland Mourn President&#8217;s Death<\/a>&nbsp;(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/pontiff_grieves_with_polish_people_over_crash_victims\/\">Pontiff grieves with Polish people over crash victims <\/a>(Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the United States, most&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/moviemom\/2010\/04\/yom-hashoah-day-of-remembrance.html\">Yom Hashoah&nbsp;activities&nbsp;<\/a>took place yesterday, on the actual date of the observance. They included educational events and memorial ceremonies at Holocaust museums and synagogues,&nbsp;plus a new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/annefrank\/\">The Diary of Anne Frank <\/a>on PBS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/schedule\/customize.html\">check your listings <\/a>for reruns this week, if you missed it). <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Yom Hashoah and Poland, Frank Blaichman, 87, was the keynote speaker at the Upper West Side Synagogues&#8217; commemoration event in New York last night, detailing his experiences as platoon commander in the sole Jewish-only partisan group in Poland during the Holocaust. His book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rather-Die-Fighting-Frank-Blaichman\/dp\/1559709170\">Rather Die&nbsp;Fighting: A Memoir of World War II,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;came out recently.&nbsp;I haven&#8217;t had a chance to read it yet, but given that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-08-25-basterds-jewish_N.htm\"> I appreciated &#8220;Defiance&#8221; and &#8220;Inglourious Basterds<\/a>&#8221; &#8212;&nbsp;films that depict Jews actively resisting the horrors of the Holocaust &#8212;&nbsp;I&#8217;ll probably get around to it at some point.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourning for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the dozens of other victims of Saturday&#8217;s plane crash has brought together Poland&#8217;s Catholics and Jews, groups that haven&#8217;t shared the happiest history. In fact, Jewish leaders have called Kaczynski a &#8220;friend to Israel,&#8221; and today&#8217;s March of the Living at Auschwitz, which takes place every&nbsp;Yom Hashoah (the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Polish Plane Crash, Holocaust Observance Brings Catholics, Jews Together - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/polish-plane-crash-holocaust-observance-brings-christians-jews-together.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polish Plane Crash, Holocaust Observance Brings Catholics, Jews Together - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mourning for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the dozens of other victims of Saturday&#8217;s plane crash has brought together Poland&#8217;s Catholics and Jews, groups that haven&#8217;t shared the happiest history. 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