Tag: Poland
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...
Who owns the Holocaust?
(February 1, 2018 / JNS) Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion, or investigation, or mere mention, of incidents of Polish collusion...
World Jewish Congress calls Poland’s new Holocaust law ‘historical obfuscation’ and an ‘attack on...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalize suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and...
World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred
WARSAW, POLAND — Elderly survivors were gathering Saturday at the former Auschwitz death camp and political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning as the world marked International Holocaust...
Rex Tillerson pays respects on Holocaust Remembrance Day at Poland monument Trump failed to...
WARSAW - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commemorated Jews who rose up against the Nazis during a trip to Poland Saturday — something President Trump failed to do when he visited the country.
“One of...
Poland pledges $28 million for Warsaw Jewish cemetery restoration
Poland’s government pledged $28 million to restoring the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, making the preservation project one of the largest of its kind in European history.
Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski told World Jewish Congress CEO...