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JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. CAFÉS: TO DRINK, TO EAT, TO READ, TO THINK AND OTHERS THINGS. WINESTONE. WARSZAWA/POLAND.

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Tuesday, Av 5, 5775. July 21, 2015. Shalom! World. Winestone, ul. Zlota 48. Warszawa/Poland. The latest concept restaurant project, located within the city centre Mercure Hotel. Winestone takes its name from the fact that it stocks a great selection of fine wines and also serves food on very fashionable French stone tablets, otherwise known as 'Les Planches'. The calming and unfussy designe features an usual violet and black colour scheme, large wooden tables and a hefy bar. Everyone can feel like a budding Oz Clarke with the rather helpfully laid out wine list which is split into four easy to decipher categories - fresh and tasty, light and fruity, balanced and elegant, full and aromatic. A newly expanded shop insside the restaurant sells wine, bread, olives and a vatiety of foods so you can try and recreate your experience at home. High level: design, service and food. Shalom! Aleichem. Cultural Support:  SOUL avec L'Integration d'Associat...

JACOB JR, MYJEWISH WORLD. CONFERÊNCIA DE WANNSEE. BERLIN/GERMANY

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Tuesday, Tammuz 27, 5775. July 14, 2015. Shalom! World. A CONFERÊNCIA DE WANNSEE A Conferência de Wannsee realizou-se em 20 de janeiro de 1942, nos arredores de Berlim. De acordo com as notas da Conferência, Reinhard Heydrich começou por relatar aos funcionários públicos graduados lá reunidos como "Plenipotenciário para a Preparação da Solução Final da Questão Judaica Europeia". Os altos funcionários presentes à Conferência: Wilhelm Stuckart (Ministério do Interior); Roland Freisler (Ministério da Justiça); Erich Neumann (organização do Plano de Quatro Anos); Friedrich-Wilhelm Kritzinger (Chancelaria do Reich); Martin Luther (Ministério do Exterior); Alfred Meyer e Georg Leibbrandt (Ministério dos Territórios Orientais Ocupados); Secretário Geral  de Estado de Hans Frank no Governo Geral Josef Bühler; Gerhard Klopfer (chancelaria do partido) ; Otto Hofmann (diretor do Escritório de Raça e Assentamento da SS [Schutzstaffel-Esquadrão de Proteção]); Heinrich...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. UMSCHLAGPLATZ MONUMENT. WARSZAWA/POLAND

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Tuesday, Tammuz 20, 5775. July 7, 2015. Shalom! World. The germans euphemistically referred to the railway sidings in the Ulica Stawki as the 'transfer site' - Umschlagplatz. The Umschlagplatz Monument, unveiled in 1988, marks the site of a former railway siding on Ulica Dzika and Ulica Stawki. Since July 22, 1942, transports of Jews to the Treblinka death camp departed from this square. It was from here that some 300.000 Jews from the Warszawa Ghetto and elsewhere were loaded onto cattle trucks and dispatched to almost certain death in the extermination camps. Among them was Janusz Koczak and his group of Jewish orphans. Living conditions in the Ghetto were inhuman, and by 1942 over 100.000 of the inhabitants had died. The monument, on which the architect Hanna Szmalenberg and the sculptor Wladyslaw Klamerus collaborated, is made of blocks of black and white marble bearing the names of 448 names, from Abel to Zanna of Warszawas's Jews. Between t...