Posts Tagged: Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau Now Asking Visitors to Pre-Book Trips to the Concentration Camp
Authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum warned on Tuesday that it may have to begin turning people away from visiting the Nazi-German death camp...
Polish Firefighters Discover and Restore Jewish Gravestones From Beneath the ‘Rubble of Memory’ (VIDEO)
It was an astounding discovery. In the Polish town of Rozprzy, about 35 miles south of the city of Lodz, the local fire department recently came...
Ralph Goldman, the Haganah’s Man in New York, Passes Away at Age 100
Tributes have been pouring in for Ralph Goldman, the former chief executive of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) who passed away earlier today. Goldman,...
Rabbi Befriends Oldest Man in America, Helps Re-Introduce Him to Judaism
A Chabad rabbi who learned that the oldest man in America, Alexander Imich, 111, was a Jew living alone in New York City, set...
Israel, Georgia Sign Economic Cooperation Agreement
Israel and the Caucasus Mountains nation of Georgia that is on-track to deepen its economic integration into the European Union signed a bilateral economic cooperation agreement...
Controversial Film ‘Aftermath’ Confronts Poland’s Relationship With the Holocaust (INTERVIEW)
'Aftermath,' a Polish film that began a limited run in New York last week and will be making its way to Los Angeles, tells the...
Jewish Groups Mourn Former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki
JNS.org - Jewish organizations are mourning the death of former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who died Monday at the age of 86. Originally a...
Jewish Resistance Fighter Shalom Yoran Dies
NY Times - For three years, Shalom Yoran survived the German occupation of Poland even as he saw his fellow Jews slaughtered by the...
New Book Profiles Jewish Nazi Hunter Who Aided Capture of Auschwitz Commander Rudolph Höss
A new book, recently published, profiles a little known yet instrumental figure in the capture of notorious Nazi, head of the Auschwitz concentration camp, commander Rudolph...
Treblinka Uprising 70th Anniversary Ceremony Features Last Living Survivor Samuel Willenberg
The site of the Treblinka concentration camp, in Poland, played host to a ceremony this past Friday commemorating 70 years since the Jewish prisoner revolt...
Former ThyssenKrupp Chairman Who Saved Hundreds of Jewish Oil Workers During Holocaust, Dies at 99
ThyssenKrupp, one of the world's largest steel companies, said that former chairman Berthold Beitz, who was credited with saving hundreds of Jewish oil Workers during...
Israeli Education Minister Rushed to Hospital After Heart Attack Scare
Times of Israel - Education Minister Shai Piron suffered what initially was thought to be a heart attack on a flight from Poland to...
Canadian Woman Comes to Terms With Her Jewish Identity 70 Years Later
An 86-year-old Canadian woman is finally embracing her Jewish heritage after nearly seventy years of hiding it. Mary Gale, a Holocaust survivor, has written a memoir...
Antisemitic Trends in Poland
In Poland, anti-Semitism is still one of the most controversial, sensitive and shameful subjects in the political, cultural and socio-economic arenas. To better understand the...
