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TOPIC: "Secret Jewish heritage converts neo-Nazi" (CNN 9/25/10)


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"Secret Jewish heritage converts neo-Nazi" (CNN 9/25/10)
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Very touching video clip here.

Secret Jewish heritage converts neo-Nazi

By Kristin Cuff, CNN
September 24, 2010 -- Updated 2308 GMT (0708 HKT)

Watch this powerful documentary on CNN International's "World's Untold Stories" for more about the Polish Jews who are stepping out of the shadows. Check out all the broadcast times and some of our best videos and past episodes at our new website

Warsaw, Poland (CNN) -- Pawel sits in the synagogue learning the Torah, praying and getting advice from his rabbi.

He appears to be enjoying a happy life married to his childhood sweetheart and the mother of his two children.

But he and Ola have traveled further than most -- from hate-filled neo-Nazism through the shock and anger of learning their heritage was Jewish to taking their place in the synagogue as Orthodox Jews.

They met at school in Poland's capital, Warsaw, when they were 12, but as their teen years passed Pawel first and then Ola grew into the neo-Nazi scene.

[SNIP]

"I think also it says on a personal level, never write somebody off. Where they may be 10 years ago doesn't have to be where they are today. And the human being has this unlimited capability of changing and sometimes even for the better."

Full story with a video at CNN

There are lesson there about secularism and letting people be who they are.


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