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The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Polish local norms helped Nazis wipe out local Jewry

Large parts of the Polish population during the Holocaust believed helping Jews went against their local norms, a new study from the Polish Academy of Sciences shows. The academy, a state-run institution, focused on a...

WWII archive shows how Polish diplomats helped Jews

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Polish officials last year announced the recovery of the archive, which they said contained historic documents showing how Polish diplomats helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. The diplomats, led by the Polish...
The headline in an Iranian newspaper: “Foolishness in Warsaw.” Credit: Vatan e-Emrooz newspaper, Iran.

‘Fools in Warsaw’: Iran slams Poland for hosting ‘anti-Iranian’ conference

On Jan. 11, the governments of the United States and Poland announced plans for a “Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East.” The Polish foreign minister stated that...
File photo: Jews from all over the world participate in the “March of the Living,” seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day on April 16, 2015. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Israeli ambassador to Poland re-enacts establishment of first diplomatic mission

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In honor of the 70th anniversary of Israel’s first diplomatic mission, Israel’s ambassador to Poland re-enacted the moment when the flag of Israel flew for the first time in Warsaw. Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna...

“About Jews”: Humanity in Action Poland’s Interactive Book against anti-Semitism

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According to the recent census of Poland’s Bureau of Statistics, there are currently eight thousand Jews living in Poland. Although 90% of Poles have never met any Jew, 75% of the Poles express anti-Jewish...
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In 2013 secretly recorded conversation, Polish premier says Jews are ‘greedy’

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In secret recordings from 2013, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly complained to friends about “greedy” and rich “Americans, Jews, Germans, Englishmen and Swiss” who run hedge funds. The recordings were made public on Tuesday...
Prepping for the High Holidays. Credit: Pixabay.

Man throws rock into window of Gdansk synagogue during Yom Kippur services

Police released security footage of a man in a dark shirt walking to the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, and throwing a stone into a window during Yom Kippur services. Authorities appealed to anybody who...
Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street, between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Honoring Polish rescuers in Warsaw who risked all to save Jews during the Holocaust

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The sacrifices of Polish rescuers of Jews living in Warsaw during the Holocaust was honored on Sunday in one of the largest gatherings of Shoah rescuers in the Polish capital—and in what may be...
Alexander (Avi) Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, documented his experiences on a Chabad on Campus “Living Links” trip to Poland.

‘To Bear Witness’: Florida college student’s inaugural photo exhibit illustrates starkness of Poland

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Avi Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, overcame injuries that left him in a wheelchair and cost him his arm to open his first photo exhibition on campus on...

Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?

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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem. That’s the moral of the story with regard to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inept attempt to resolve a quarrel with...