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