Posts Tagged: Polish Jews
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Leaders Mark 70 Years Since Auschwitz Liberation
JNS.org - More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the...
The Holocaust Survivors Who Fell in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence
A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel's Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust,...
Jan Karski: An Authentic Hero
This year, we mark what would have been Jan Karski's 100th birthday. The more time goes by, the more I miss him. Precisely when his voice...
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...
New Study Finds Holocaust Survivors Live Longer
Men who survived the Holocaust have a longer life expectancy than those who did not have to endure its harsh conditions, a new study by...
My Promise to the ‘Lion of Judah’
In August of last year I was invited to the premiere of a Holocaust documentary at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village entitled 'Lion of...
New Play by Son of Yad Vashem Architect Tackles Why We Build Holocaust Memorials (INTERVIEW)
False Solution is a provocative new one-act play by Oren Safdie being performed at La MaMa in New York City that grapples with the construction...
Warsaw Ghetto Site of Newly Opened Museum to Show Jews Not a ‘Footnote to Polish History’
WARSAW—The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is built on the hallowed ground of the Warsaw Ghetto, literally on a site of genocide, at...
Poll: 45% of Polish High School Students Would be ‘Unhappy’ if Family Member Was Discovered to be Jewish
A high proportion of Polish schoolchildren are openly anti-Semitic, according to a new survey carried out at schools across the capital city Warsaw. The poll,...
Daughter Discovers Father’s Image on Book Cover
Sharon Wiener was initially drawn to the novel The Emperor of Lies because of the familiar theme: Poland's Lodz Ghetto, a place her father had...
Hitler Statue at Site of Warsaw Ghetto Stirs Controversy
An Italian artist's exhibition that includes a statue of a kneeling Hitler placed at the former location of the Warsaw Ghetto has angered Polish Jews and...
‘Comix 101’: Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Maus’ Author Advocates for his Medium
More than 25 years after it was first published, the graphic novel Maus continues to revolutionize both comics and representations of the Holocaust—and its Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Jewish At-Risk Teens Repair Polish Cemeteries
Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania - the provinces that were once known as Galicia and Bukovina and were...
EU Human Rights Body: Russia Attitude Toward Katyn Massacre, “Lacking in Humanity”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled on a case involving the Katyn massacre that brings back painful memories for Polish victims of...
