Tag: Poland
Far-right Polish lawmaker says pogroms were good for Jews, made them powerful
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...
Ex-priest in Poland indicted on hate speech, Holocaust-denial charges
The District Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Wrocław, Poland, indicted former priest Jacek Miedlar on hate speech and Holocaust-denial charges.
Another charge claimed that he insulted the late Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Catholic anti-Communist...
Catholic Church symbolism again becomes an issue near death grounds of Auschwitz
The protest outside the church at Birkenau during last month’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp should not have come as a surprise.
The presence of Christian symbols...
Archaeologists unearth crate of historic Judaica items under synagogue in Poland
A wooden crate filled with Judaica items was discovered during an archaeological excavation in a synagogue in Małopolska, Poland, reported The Jewish Chronicle.
Archaeologists were digging a small test hole at the Old Synagogue in Wieliczka when...
A Polish-Russian row over commemoration of the Holocaust
A profound and bitter battle between Israel and Poland has been brought to crisis point by the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which is being commemorated by world leaders this week at...
Congressional delegation visits Auschwitz ahead of 75th anniversary of liberation
A congressional delegation, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), visited Auschwitz on Tuesday ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp.
Pelosi laid a wreath at the “Death...
Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time
“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night”
Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...
Holocaust politics is bad for the Jews
At a time of rising anti-Semitism around the globe and threats from terrorism and nuclear blackmail aimed at the State of Israel, there are more important things to worry about than the question of...
Meet Michael Schudrich: Rabbi to Poland’s Jews, the living and the dead
The phone rings in Michael Schudrich’s study. The young man on the other end sounds upset. His grandmother died, and he needs the rabbi’s help.
Not so unusual, right? Except that, just before she died,...
Truth is not selective: Poland vs. Netflix
Poland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading the entertainment-streaming service Netflix to amend a newly released World War II-based documentary that implied, through one of its...