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Rabbi evicted from Krakow home once owned by Jews murdered in Holocaust

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:32:57 +0000

Tanya Segal, Poland’s first female rabbi, loses her apartment in building featured in 'Schindler’s List' thanks to Poland’s lack of Holocaust restitution laws

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Polish museum scraps Christian children’s show featuring threats to beat Jews

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:31:37 +0000

Museum of Krakow had been showing a nativity scene production that berated Jews for being 'ashamed of the Messiah'

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Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:05:43 +0000

At 93, one of just a handful of living witnesses of the armed rebellion seeks to correct Jews' understanding of bravery during the genocide

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Polish city says it canceled Roger Waters concerts over his support for Russia

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:25:28 +0000

'He doesn’t realize the truth,' Krakow councilman says of the Pink Floyd co-founder who has blamed NATO and Ukraine; previous reports said Waters had canceled the gigs

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Bomb threat on Israel-Poland flight prompts evacuation via emergency chutes

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:14:31 +0000

Plane lands in Krakow, is sent to isolated area before cabin crew tell passengers to leave plane via slides; second such incident within a week involving Wizz Air carrier

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In busy Krakow station, harried volunteers welcome Ukrainian refugees

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:02:36 +0000

Poles mobilize to absorb hundreds of thousands fleeing the Russian invasion of their eastern neighbor

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Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:07:09 +0000

Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site

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Krakow official: Good luck figurines of Jews are antisemitic, shouldn’t be sold

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:22:20 +0000

Statement follows campaign by Polish Jews to stop the sale of models; some locals treat figures as charms for increasing revenues, typically depicting Orthodox Jews counting money

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In new film, director Polanski revisits the horrors of his Holocaust boyhood

Mon, 31 May 2021 07:38:14 +0000

'Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown' follows Jewish filmmaker as he tours his hometown of Krakow with fellow survivor and photographer Ryszard Horowitz, whom he met in Warsaw Ghetto

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Swastika, anti-Semitic slur painted on wall of former Krakow Ghetto

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 02:36:39 +0000

'Whores Jews, get the f*** out of Poland' daubed on wall on second day of Rosh Hashanah; police say no suspects

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Rabbi evicted from Krakow synagogue must be allowed back, Polish court rules

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:34:44 +0000

Jewish community barred Chabad's Eliezer Gurary from premises, claiming he and his congregants damaged site

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A clash between Jews in Krakow highlights growing acceptance of Chabad in Europe

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:01:43 +0000

Pictures of a standoff between armed guards and Jewish worshippers in front of a locked synagogue shocked people abroad, but it's only one side of a lengthy European power struggle

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This former Krakow synagogue is now a bar, and Polish Jews are protesting

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:47:05 +0000

Demonstrators charge owners of Hevre Cafe with exploiting area's Jewish heritage

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2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep nude protest

Tue, 28 May 2019 15:08:45 +0000

Belarusians sentenced two years after they chained themselves together in front of camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign in protest of wars in Ukraine, Syria

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Piece by piece, a survivor’s daughter finds a trove of letters inspires art

Thu, 02 May 2019 08:48:02 +0000

A painter's mother saved every piece of her family's wartime correspondence. Now this treasure chest of revelations is set to be exhibited where she began her life, in Krakow

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