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As the world marks 79 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 comes at a dark time for the Jewish community.
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Polish leaders joined members of the Jewish community Thursday to celebrate Hanukkah, shortly after fringe lawmaker Grzegorz Braun took a fire extinguisher to the parliamentary menorah.
Top Polish leaders joined members of the Jewish community for a Hanukkah celebration two days after a far-right lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out burning candles on a menorah in the halls of parliament. The attendance of the president, speaker of parliament and other top legislative officials sent a signal that there is no tolerance in Poland for the kind of antisemitic behavior that shocked the country. A woman was injured in the incident and is still in a hospital, two days later.
“This is the true face of Poland,” the country’s U.S.-born chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said. “We are all together.”