Tag: Poland
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...
Polish Senate votes to delay bill that would ban exports of kosher meat
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...
European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports
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...
Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
“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
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...
US State Department envoy works to secure compensation for Nazi-era wrongs
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...
A chill wind from Poland
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...
‘We are here’: Virtual concert to honor 77th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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,...
A conversation with Aron Bielski, last of the Bielski brothers
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 program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus
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...