Changing Face in Poland – Skinhead Puts on Skullcap – NYTimes.com

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Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap (Published 2010)

Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/world/europe/28poland.html

“I went to my parents and said, ‘What the hell’? Imagine, I was a neo-Nazi and heard this news? I couldn’t look in the mirror for weeks,” he said. “My parents were the typical offspring of Jewish survivors of the war, who decided to conceal their Jewish identity to try and protect their family.”