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(Donald Snyder: The Forward, 29.4.2016) Controversy has reignited over plans for a memorial in the Warsaw Ghetto honoring non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust following an Israeli sculptor’s apparent acceptance of a commission to design the project.

(Konstanty Gebert: Political Critique, 27.2.2016) I have read, with growing astonishment and disappointment, the article by Gabu Heindl and Eduard Freudmann, on the vicissitudes of their participation in the competition ‘From Those You Saved’ which took place in Warsaw last year.

(Donald Snyder: The Forward, 26.2.2016) In a February 22 email to the New York philanthropist funding the project, sculptor Dani Karavan said he would not accept a commission to create the memorial unless two sculptors who won an earlier public competition for the commission withdrew willingly and “do not have further complaints or reservations.”

(Liam Hoare: e-jewish philanthropy, 8.11.2015) Holocaust memorials being a physical manifestation of collective memory and identity, the question, then, is who exactly has the right to determine how the Holocaust is remembered.

(Vanessa Gera: Associated Press, 30.8.2015) As a Catholic Pole, Elka shouldn't even have been in the ghetto of Czestochowa, in southern Poland. But the nanny was so devoted to the 12-year-old Jewish boy she had raised since infancy that she refused to leave.

(NZZ, 24.7.2015) Die österreichische Architektin Gabu Heindl und der Wiener Künstler Eduard Freudmann haben den internationalen Architekturwettbewerb für die Gestaltung des Denkmals zur Erinnerung an die Retter polnischer Juden gewonnen.

(Benjamin Sutton: Hyperallergic, 8.5.2015) A controversial competition to build a monument in Warsaw to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust just got a little more controversial after the founder of the organization behind the project denounced the winning design.

(Donald Snyder: The Forward, 2.5.2015) A dispute over designs is the latest roadblock to hit a controversial Holocaust memorial planned for the site of the Warsaw Ghetto that would honor so so-called Righteous Gentiles who rescued Jews.

(Julia Friedman: Hyperallergic, 12.2.2015) The proposed site of the RFF memorial has been the crux of the controversy. The foundation’s website calls for it to “be built in the vicinity of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews,” which is located in the area of the former Warsaw Ghetto.