Tag: Poland
After latest legislation on stolen Jewish property, it’s time to cut ties with Poland’s...
Poland is awash in anti-Semitism, and it is the government in Warsaw that is setting the hateful tone amid the worst breakdown in Polish-Jewish relations since the fall of Communism more than 30 years...
New monument pays tribute to archive hidden by Jews in Warsaw Ghetto
A new monument in Poland that honors a Holocaust-era archive compiled by Jews who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto was unveiled on Monday on the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The monument, a glass...
From the Holocaust to the IDF: Grandfather and grandson share a story of survival...
As Israel prepared to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, a grandfather who survived the Nazi atrocities in Poland and his grandson shared a powerful story of survival and continuity.
Chaim Luviner, born in 1933 in Poland,...
Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?
It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. That’s the only way to describe the increasingly complicated brawl...
‘New Yorker’ takes heat for article on Polish complicity during Holocaust
The New Yorker is under fire for an article it posted last week that critics claim lays the blame for the murder of Jews in Poland during World War II on the Polish people and not the Nazis.
The magazine...
Yad Vashem ‘deeply disturbed’ by Polish court verdict in Holocaust libel case
Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said on Thursday that it was “deeply disturbed” by the implications of a Polish court’s recent ruling in a libel case involving the alleged wartime actions of Edward...
Polish court ruling on Holocaust libel case causes profound concern among Jewish groups
A ruling issued by a court in Poland on Tuesday is meeting fierce criticism from Jewish groups and others who claim that the decision will silence further examination of the role of Polish citizens...
The historical problem with Poland
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) launched a new website last month titled “Protect the Facts” for the purpose of addressing Holocaust “distortion.”
“Distortion” is not quite the same thing as “denial.” The claim that...
Jewish foundation to send more than $300,000 to Righteous Gentiles in Poland
Amid the holiday season, the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) is sending more than $300,000 to Christian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust living in Poland.
The financial assistance includes $2,550 for each of...
November 11, 1920: Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, Ghetto Fighter
Chaike Belchatowska, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who survived to tell about it, was born in Warsaw on this date in 1920. The child of a radical mother, and a member of...