Posts Tagged: Poland Holocaust
How Israel Should Handle Poland’s Holocaust Crimes and Antisemitism
“Calibration” is crucial in diplomacy. And when it comes to Israel's relations with Poland, calibration is the key condition. While both countries have an interest...
Israel Should Work With Poland Despite Holocaust Controversy
Jews with any connection to the Holocaust tend to harbor prejudice against Poles. Despite their 1,000-year sojourn in Poland, Jews were often discriminated against. In...
Study: Polish Norms Helped Nazis Wipe Out Local Jewry
JNS.org - Large parts of the Polish population during the Holocaust believed that helping Jews went against their local norms, a new study from the Polish...
Holocaust Experts Urge Israeli PM Netanyahu to Confront ‘Rewriting of Shoah History’ During Visit to Baltics
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a three-day official visit to Lithuania on Thursday, two leading experts on the Holocaust urged him to speak out against the...
Poland’s History Hangs Heavy; So Does Its Present
“The past is never dead. It isn’t even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote. While Faulkner was writing of his native Mississippi, he could have been...
Polish-Jewish Relations Step Back From the Brink
JNS.org - Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras....
Israeli, Polish Presidents March Together at Auschwitz on Yom HaShoah
The presidents of Poland and Israel marched together at the Auschwitz concentration camp on Thursday, putting aside their differences over a new law that makes it a...
Veteran Holocaust Denier David Irving’s Tour of Nazi Extermination Sites May Run Foul of Controversial Polish Legislation
Poland's widely-criticized new legislation regulating the commemoration of the Nazi Holocaust is facing an unexpected challenge with an impending tour of death camp sites that is being led...
The World Confronts Poland’s Holocaust Revisionism
The Polish Holocaust law has elicited international reactions that -- by now -- have arguably become more interesting than the law itself. In fact, the resulting publicity...
State Department Report From 1946 Suggests Poles Persecuted Jews ‘Vigorously’ During Holocaust
JNS.org - In a bid to end the contentious debate surrounding Poland’s controversial Holocaust law, the Simon Wiesenthal Center Thursday released a declassified report highlighting Polish...
All Antisemitism Is Dangerous — Why We Must Fight Poland’s Holocaust Law
Lately I have been seeing a lot of comments in both social media and in some publications that Jews should not be getting so upset about what...
From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’: A Change in Parlance Doesn’t Change the Facts
JNS.org - I interviewed Mateusz Morawiecki, the current prime minister of Poland, during his September visit to New York. The public-relations maven who arranged the meeting pitched Morawiecki -- then...
Why Would Any Jews Spend Money in Poland?
Approximately three million Jews -- 90% of Polish Jewry -- were murdered during World War II on Polish soil. The majority of them perished in concentration and death camps, such as...
Why We Should Care About Poland’s Holocaust Law
JNS.org - Worldwide efforts are underway to transform the Holocaust into anything other than what it was: the specific targeting of the Jewish people for genocide....
