The city of Krakow, Poland has bestowed its illustrious “Patron of Culture” award to Steven Spielberg for his efforts to preserve the city’s Jewish history. The director donated $40,000 to a former pharmacy owned by Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the only non-Jew who stayed in the ghetto during the entire Nazi occupation to provide food and medicine to the Jews trapped there and helped some residents escape. The pharmacy is now a museum dedicated to Jewish life before the war.
A much better reason for his mother to kvell than War of the Worlds.
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