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The Sejm, or lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland in 2014. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish Senate votes to delay bill that would ban exports of kosher meat

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The Polish Senate voted on Wednesday to postpone provisions to a controversial animal-rights bill banning the export of kosher meat until 2025. Last month, the Sejm, the Polish parliament’s lower house, passed the bill. But...
Shechita (kosher slaughter) of a chicken. Credit: Yofial via Wikimedia Commons.

European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports

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Europe’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed alarm on Thursday over an animal-welfare bill in Poland that would ban exports of kosher meat. “This draft law is of deep, deep, concern to European Jewry. It puts...
Jewish Ghetto Police guarding the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto, June 1942. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto

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“I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.” With these haunting words, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski recalled his agonized reaction as he walked around the Warsaw Ghetto...

September 1, 1939: Nazi Germany Invades Poland, Starting World War II

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On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II. The day before, Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in...
Cherrie Daniels, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. Credit: State Department/D.A. Peterson.

US State Department envoy works to secure compensation for Nazi-era wrongs

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Cherrie Daniels was tapped last year as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. Founded in 1999, the Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues “develops and implements U.S. policy to return...
Andrzej Duda speaks in the town of Lubartów during the 2015 Polish presidential election campaign, March 31, 2015. Credit: Radosław Czarnecki via Wikimedia Commons.

A chill wind from Poland

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I’ve known Rafal Pankowski, the Polish academic and campaigner against anti-Semitism and racism, for almost 20 years, but I don’t think I’ve heard him sound as worried about the political situation in his country...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘We are here’: Virtual concert to honor 77th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for Hope and Lang Lang International Music Foundation will present the program “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience,...
Aron Bielski visiting the location in modern-day Belarus where he and his brothers fought the Nazis and other pro-German forces during World War II. Source: Screenshot.

A conversation with Aron Bielski, last of the Bielski brothers

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Aron Bielski is the youngest and last living member of the Bielski brigade, which he founded along with three of his brothers. Their activities have become widely known as one of the largest partisan...
March of the Living participants. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

March of the Living program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus

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March of the Living, the largest annual international Holocaust-education program that takes groups to the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and then Israel, will not take place in this month because of concerns related...
Polish lawmaker Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Far-right Polish lawmaker says pogroms were good for Jews, made them powerful

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Jews benefited from the murderous pogroms against them in Europe and became more powerful because of the violence, said a far-right Polish lawmaker. Janusz Korwin-Mikke—a former lawmaker in the European Parliament and leading member of...