Tag: Poland
Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. – Erik Qualman
Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating and horrifying truths of the Holocaust. We traveled to six countries—the Czech...
Historical truth is in peril
“This is giving in to the Polish narrative, an attack on the memory of the Holocaust, and a danger to any future independent research that people might want to conduct in Poland,” says eminent...
Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly criticized the “highly problematic wording” of a recent joint statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, that sought to end a...
Poland backtracks on controversial Holocaust law, ends criminal penalties
Following enormous international outcry, including from Israel and Jewish groups, Poland has decided to remove the criminal provisions of its controversial Holocaust speech law.
The law first proposed earlier this year had sought criminal penalties...
Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’
The Israel Defense Force completed significant battle training exercises abroad this month, with Israeli paratroopers conducting drills on Polish soil for the first time ever and the Israeli Air Force working on its long-range...
Trump signs Holocaust property bill into law, angering Polish officials
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that will help Holocaust survivors to reclaim lost assets or property.
The measure, which was introduced last year into the Senate by Sen. Tammy Baldwin...
Residents of Ben-Gurion’s Polish hometown of Plonsk march to honor Israel at 70
Several hundred residents of Plonsk, a small town in the center of Poland that was the birthplace of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, took part in a procession...
Poll: 20 percent of Central, Eastern Europeans do not accept Jews as fellow citizens
About one-fifth of people polled in Central and Eastern European countries say they do not accept Jews as fellow citizens and do not want Jewish neighbors.
Some 32 percent of Armenians, 23 percent of Lithuanians,...
Outrage in Israel as Polish PM suggests Jews were perpetrators in Holocaust
In an ongoing dispute over the passage of a Polish law criminalizing any terms linking Poland to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust, Israeli officials expressed outrage Saturday night following remarks by Polish Prime...
Poland must come to grips with Holocaust record
On Jan. 30, at a ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the names of Sabina Perzyna, her husband Jan Dziadosz and their son Aleksandr were added to the Wall of Honour in the Garden...