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Still no NYC monument for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust

JL;DR SUMMARY In the decades since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, New York City remains without a dedicated monument to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustNew York CityYiddish CultureWarsaw Ghetto UprisingBundResistanceArthur NunbergJewish RemembranceMemorials

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"to demand the city fund a monument for that historic event and for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"I will never forget that day in Warsaw when I found myself at the home"
Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"sew money and illegal literature into its lining, so that I could disseminate it to Bundist ranks in Zaglebie-Krakow."
Wolbrom, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Eyzl Rudin, a Bundist from Wolbrom, whose hands were broken by the Gestapo in Cracow"
Sosnowiec, Silesia, Poland
"in Salek Meytlis from Hanoar in Sosnowiec; in Monyek Peltsman and Mendek Horendorf,"
Bedzin, Silesia, Poland
"And what of the Bunds passionate, aging pioneer, Itskhok Peysekhson (from Bedzin),"
Czestochowa, Silesia, Poland
"members from Sosnowiec, still children of 12 and 15, who threw grenades from a bunker in Czenstochowa"
Kyiv, Ukraine
"including the damage to the Babyn Yar memorial, site of the wars largest execution site of Ukrainian Jews."
Chisinau, Chișinău, Moldova
"that bullet-ridden car bringing a Ukrainian family, now refugees, to safety in Moldova."

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