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83-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Finally Celebrates Bar Mitvah
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsWhen he was just 11 years old, Morris Glass's childhood was ripped away from him when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. This past Saturday, the 83-year-old Glass was able to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah, an important Jewish rite of passage that was denied him because at 13 years old he was living in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto. "In the ghetto, I had no chance for a bar mitzvah," Glass told CNN. "We were not allowed to have any books." Now a resident of Raleigh, N.C., Glass has made it his mission to speak about his experiences during the Holocaust to schools and community ...
Polish Dog Gives Birth to 17 Puppies
By not in system - AOL NewsWARSAW, Poland -- Seventeen whimpering Great Dane puppies born by cesarean section are keeping their mother, another dog and their breeder constantly busy trying to feed the unusually large litter. The eight male and nine female pedigree puppies were born Monday at a veterinary clinic near Warsaw, after their breeder Gabriela Kubalska decided to spare the mother, 4-year-old Hania, a long labor. They are Hania's very first litter, Kubalska said Thursday. Hania, looking tired, her puppies and another female Great Dane helping to nurse the litter, occupy most of the ground floor at Kubalska's ...
Japan Disaster Reignites Nuclear Debate Around the World
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- Japanese authorities are battling to stop radiation from leaking from Fukushima's quake-ravaged atomic power plant. But the economic and political fallout from the disaster has already spread far beyond the Land of the Rising Sun. Governments in Europe and Asia are tearing up or reviewing plans to build new nuclear plants, and reactor manufacturers and uranium producers have seen their share prices dive. This is a major setback for the nuclear industry, which had enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years. As public fears over nuclear energy faded along with ...
Family Remembers Auschwitz Survivor's Will to Survive
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsMilwaukee, Wis. -- Zygmunt Choroszy was buried Saturday with the number 134 tattooed on his arm. Tucked into his coffin was the faded holy card he would hide in his mouth from Nazi guards while at Auschwitz. Choroszy, a Polish Catholic and political prisoner, was arrested for underground activity in late 1939. He survived five years at Auschwitz and other concentration camps before the liberation. Last week he died of congestive heart failure at age 90. "He had the greatest smile, a glow about him. If you look at him in any picture, he has a glow. Look what he survived. Look at what he came ...
Casimir Pulaski: 5 Facts on Chicago's Beloved Polish Hero
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsOn March 12, the city of Chicago will celebrate all things Irish by dyeing the Chicago River green. But today is for the Polish. The first Monday in March is Casimir Pulaski Day in Chicago, when schools and other government institutions are closed to honor a man who is a hero to both the Polish and Americans. So who is Pulaski? Surge Desk has found out. 1. Polish war hero From 1768 to 1771, Pulaski, who was born in Poland, fought against Russian and Prussian forces that were wielding enormous influence in Poland. But he was forced to leave Poland forever after being accused of ...
Protesters Across US Decry Wis. Anti-Union Efforts
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- Rallies were held across the country Saturday to support thousands of protesters holding steady at the Wisconsin Capitol in their fight against Republican-backed legislation aimed at weakening unions. Union supporters organized rallies from New York to Washington state in a show of solidarity as the protest in Madison entered its 12th straight day and attracted its largest crowd yet: more than 70,000 people. Hundreds banged on drums and screamed into bullhorns inside, while others braved frigid weather and snowfall during a rally that spilled into city streets. "I want to ...
Wisconsin Workers Get Support from Poland's Solidarity Trade Union
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Polish trade union Solidarity, whose protests in the early 1980s helped precipitate the downfall of Soviet communism, has embraced the cause of Wisconsin's protesting public workers. Piotr Duda, head of the 700,000-member "Solidarnosc" trade union, wrote that on behalf of his organization he wanted to "express our solidarity and support for your struggle against the recent assault on trade unions and trade union rights unleashed by Governor Scott Walker," Wisconsin's budget-cutting Republican executive. "We are witnessing yet another attempt of transferring the costs of the economic ...
Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes
By Gerald J. Beyer - Politics DailyMentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some striking similarities between that Communist-era episode and the ongoing standoff between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the state's public employees. They were not lost on the current president of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, who sent a letter of support for public workers on behalf of ...
Opinion: Can Democracy Take Root in Egypt?
By not in system - AOL NewsWith the decision by Hosni Mubarak to step down, nothing will ever be the same again in Egypt, nor perhaps in the Arab world. So the real question now is, what comes next? Will Egypt turn to some form of representative government? Perhaps, but it's pure fantasy to believe that this will be anything like Eastern Europe in 1989, when communism fell in those countries and was quickly replaced with democratic rule. Instead, it will be more akin to post-World War II Japan. Similarities between Egypt's current turmoil and the crushing of European communism start and end with the possibility of a ...
Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska: 5 Facts on the Playboy Model Who's Running a Polish Soccer Team
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIzabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, a former Playboy cover star, has been tapped to run the Warta Poznan soccer team. The news has rippled far beyond Poznan, an industrial city in western Poland. Its soccer club has been struggling and is third from last in its division. Surge Desk has five facts about the model who's trying to get her team back in the game. 1. She's tough Polish soccer players and their fans are a notoriously macho lot. But Lukomska-Pyzalska says she's not worried, since she's worked in the real estate and construction industry for the past five years. "That's hardly a woman's ...
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