Tag: Poland
Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city
In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s...
Polish heroism during World War II
After the fall of Poland at the start of World War II, some Polish diplomatic offices in other countries remained open. In Bern, Switzerland, ambassador Aleksander Ładoś and his two principal aides, Stefan Ryniewicz...
Lapid condemns ‘horrifying anti-Semitic incident’ in Poland
Nationalist protesters called for Jews to be killed or expelled from Poland at a rally in the central Polish city of Kalisz on Thursday.
Protesters at the rally, held to mark Poland’s Independence Day, blasted...
World War II letter connects families of Jewish survivors, Polish farmer who hid them
The descendants of two Holocaust survivors and the farmer who hid them from the Nazis in Poland have connected with the help of a recently discovered post-World War II letter.
Karolina Jurzyk, 35, said that...
Warsaw’s Jewish community buries remains found of unidentified Holocaust victim
Warsaw’s Jewish community buried the remains of an unidentified Holocaust victim on Tuesday, found in a building that was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto.
“We are here as the family for a person we...
‘There is more to Polish restitution law than Lapid portrays’
The question on everyone’s mind in Poland in recent days was what prompted Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to react in such a critical manner to their government’s decision to put a statute of...
Will the Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel and Jewish community?
Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a bill passed by the Polish legislature on Aug. 14 that would prevent individuals with property seized by either the Nazis during...
Polish appellate court throws out ruling against two Holocaust scholars
A Polish appellate court threw out a February ruling against two Holocaust scholars that said they needed to retract their research, claiming it defamed a Polish man by saying he was complicit in the...
Anti-restitution law ignites diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned Israel on Sunday that its continued criticism of Poland’s recently passed anti-restitution law could harm ties between the two countries.
“Israel’s decision to downgrade its diplomatic representation in Warsaw...
Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night accused Poland of having “become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history.”
Lapid was responding to Polish President Andrzej Duda’s...