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Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

... that the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (pictured), site of Willy Brandt's Warschauer Kniefall in 1970, was made from labradorite intended to be used in monuments in Nazi Germany?
... that the Chaim Potok novel The Book of Lights is based on Potok's exposure to non-Jewish religions as a military chaplain in Korea and Japan?
... that Polish Jewish resistance fighter Vladka Meed was a central source of the 2001 television movie Uprising?
... that most Russian-speakers in the United States are Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union?