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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...
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future

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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...
The Jewish cemetery in Lodz, Poland. May 11, 2017. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a state ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust

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

Poland backtracks on controversial Holocaust law, ends criminal penalties

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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...
Israel Defense Forces paratroopers training in Poland. Credit: IDF Spokespersons Unit.

Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump signs Holocaust property bill into law, angering Polish officials

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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

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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

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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

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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...