Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Vandals target Pole working on Jewish remembrance

Vandals target Pole working on Jewish remembrance
The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 1:00 PM

WARSAW, Poland -- Vandals threw firecrackers and bricks with swastikas into the home of the Polish head of a group devoted to Jewish remembrance, the man who was target of the attack said Wednesday.

Tomasz Pietrasiewicz was sleeping when the bricks and firecrackers were thrown at his house Friday night, shattering windows and causing minor damage. He said he was in a different part of his home and was not hurt.
Pietrasiewicz said police have not yet identified the perpetrators, but the swastikas mean it is likely that right-wing extremists targeted him for his remembrance work.

Pietrasiewicz is not Jewish but he directs an organization called Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre, which works to preserve the memory of the large and vibrant Jewish community that lived in the eastern city of Lublin before the Holocaust.

He said he had mostly avoided speaking about the incident in recent days, explaining that he didn't want to play it up because he wanted to avoid giving extremists from such a tiny minority more attention than they deserved.

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