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The home of the last Jewish man to live in Auschwitz’s town is to be turned into vegetarian café.
Szymon Kluger lived in the town of Ozwiecim in Poland as a child and,
after the Holocaust, returned to his childhood home, which is directly
behind the town’s former synagogue, until his death in 2000.
In the same year, the former synagogue was turned into the Auschwitz
Jewish Centre. The centre has now launched a campaign to turn the house
into a vegetarian café, called Café Oshpitzin.
Oshpitzin, meaning ‘guests’, was the Yiddish name for Oswiecim;
before the Holocaust over half of the town’s 15,000 inhabitants were
Jewish.
The aim is for the café to be: “A place where tourists and locals can
come together, where heritage is sustainably preserved, where local
culinary traditions and locally produced foods can be celebrated and
shared by visitors from around the world,” explained the video released
by the centre.
The goal of the Auschwitz Jewish Centre is to bring life back to a
town with a tragic history. Funds for the project are being raised
through ‘crowdfunding’ website Kickstarter. In the two days since the
campaign’s launch on Yom Hashoah, April 8, it raised $5,000 of its
$25,000 goal. Rewards for donating range from a “private presentation
about the search for Dr. Josef Mengele by Dr. David G. Marwell” to
naming a cake in the café.
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/105232/home-last-jew-auschwitz-be-vegetarian-cafe
Friday 12 April 2013
Home of last Jew in Auschwitz to be vegetarian cafe
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A cafe? OMG, it will have an oven!!
The cafe is anti-Semitic!
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