Posts Tagged: Poland
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...
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...
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...
Poland-Israel Meltdown Demands Elisha Wiesel’s Intervention
In March, we will hold our annual gala, celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary. The Elie Wiesel Defender of Israel Award will posthumously be given to Yoni Netanyahu, who...
Israeli Political Leader Lapid on Polish Holocaust Law: ‘On the Verge, If Not Beyond, Holocaust Denial’
Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid continued his war of words with the Polish government on Monday, comparing a new Polish law to Holocaust denial. Referring to...
Poland and Its Jews
Poland recently passed a law making it illegal and a criminal offense to claim that the Nazi death camps built during the Second World War on Polish territory...
Polish Jews Reel From Wave of Antisemitism Following Furor Over Country’s New Holocaust Law
Poland’s Jews are reeling from a wave of antisemitism as a furious controversy intensifies over Poland’s role in the murder of three million Polish Jews...
The Situation in Poland: ‘Jewish Death Camps’ and Moral Illiteracy
The interview below was conducted in response to a new Polish law that criminalizes speech recognizing any Polish role in the Holocaust; the possible sentences for violating...
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...
‘No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland’ Sears and Stuns as It Probes
"No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland," by Rick Halperin and Denise Gee; photographs by Sherry Aikman SMU Embrey Human Rights Program/Terrace Partners (October 2017). Hardcover (11.75”...
Far-Right Marchers in Warsaw Chant ‘Jews Out of Poland’
Tens of thousands of far-right nationalists chanted calls for a “Jew-free” Poland as they marched through the streets of Warsaw on Saturday to mark 99...
Yes, Trump Should Have Visited Warsaw’s Holocaust Memorial, but He Remains a Great Friend of Israel
WARSAW, POLAND — For the past 10 days, my family and I have visited the horrible killing fields of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Lodz ghetto, Tykocin and...
Why the AJC Is Going to Poland
I grew up in a home that was hardly pro-Polish. Poland was seen as a country where antisemitism was historically widespread, and -- at times...
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...
