Posts Tagged: Poland Holocaust
Jews and Poles Don’t Have to Be Enemies
JNS.org - Jews and Poles spent most of the first half of the 20th century at each other’s throats. Must they continue on the same destructive...
British Royal Couple Visits Site of Former Concentration Camp in Poland, Meets With Holocaust Survivors
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, visited the site of a former concentration camp in Poland on Tuesday and met with a group...
Snapshots of the Kraków We Lost
It has been said that the Shtetl was created twice. Once hundreds of years ago as a place for Jews to live -- usually at the...
Photo Exhibit Making North American Premiere Highlights Erasure of Polish Jewish History Since World War II
A black-and-white photo exhibition making its North American premiere highlights the erasure of Polish Jewish history since World War II, the executive director of the...
Is Poland Normalizing Auschwitz?
What is life like in a town that's associated with the biggest crime in history, but that's also a thriving city where people go about their daily lives? The town...
Major Jewish Group: By Threatening to Prosecute Holocaust Scholar, Poland Attempting to ‘Rewrite History Through a Political Lens’
By threatening to prosecute a prominent Holocaust scholar for claiming that Poles killed more Jews during World War II than they did Germans, the Polish...
Lead Nazi Investigator in Germany Identifies Eight New Suspects
JNS.org - Germany’s lead Nazi crimes investigator has identified eight people who are suspected of working at concentration camps in Poland during the Holocaust. The head...
Poland’s Very Short Memory on Jews and the Holocaust
The Polish national anthem, in a glass-half-full kind of way, solemnly declares, "Poland is not yet lost." These optimistic words, which do not actually sound...
Aging Rescuers of Holocaust Survivors Paid Debt of Gratitude
Thousands of non-Jews from across Europe and Eastern Europe saved Jewish lives from the horrors of the Holocaust, placing their lives and the lives of...
A View from Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day
JNS.org - OSWIECIM, Poland—The day is Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations to memorialize the lives of the...
Polish Righteous Among the Nations Honored at Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM - Yad Vashem held an event on January 16 to posthumously honor a Polish woman, Maria Zurawska, as Righteous Among the Nations. The medal...
Polish Newly Discovered Jews Travel to Israel for First Time
JNS.org - Six young Polish Jews arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a seminar by Shavei Israel, an organization that strives to connect individuals...
Poland’s Jewish Renaissance Brings to Light ‘Underpinnings’ of Judeo-Christian Western Culture
JNS.org - June 28 will mark the start of the 23rd annual Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, whose closing event is a concert that routinely...
German Book Tells Stories of Child Holocaust Refugees
Daily Mail - They were the children of the damned - Jews who had no place in the New World Order of Adolf Hitler and...
