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Members of the Polish neo-Nazi Pride and Modernity group celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday in an undated video. (Screen capture: TVN24)
Two Polish men detained for Hitler birthday concert
By AFP
Arrests come as hundreds of neo-Nazis gather in nearby German town for annual festival marking Nazi dictator's birthday
Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the platform at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in 1944 (AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)
February 26, 2018, 4:31 pm
Polish Holocaust rescuers issue call for Polish-Israeli dialogue
Amid crisis over Holocaust law, last surviving Righteous Among the Nations urge Warsaw, Jerusalem to pursue a 'future based on friendship, solidarity and truth'
By TOI staff and AP
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
February 24, 2018, 9:12 pm
TV report: Poland freezes Holocaust law, is sending team to Israel to reword it
Justice minister in Warsaw reportedly says controversial legislation won't be implemented at this stage; Israel hails diplomatic achievement
By Agencies and Raphael Ahren
European Council President Donald Tusk (C) arrives to attend a lunch during an informal meeting of the 27 EU heads of state or government at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on February 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ludovic MARIN)
February 23, 2018, 11:30 pm
EU president: Poland’s conduct on Holocaust risks ruining its global standing
Donald Tusk, a former Polish premier, warns Warsaw against 'anti-Semitic excesses' that hurt country's reputation
By AFP and TOI staff
Screenshots from YouTube videos related to the Holocaust history dispute between Israel and Poland. At left, a video from the Polish government's #GermanDeathCamps campaign. At right, a video produced by the Israeli group 'J-nerations,' February 2018.
February 23, 2018, 9:24 am
Poland-Israel Holocaust dispute hits the court of viral YouTube videos
Amid the diplomatic feud over Poland's new 'anti-defamation' law, Jewish activists push back on the Polish government for 'white-washing' anti-Semitism
By Matt Lebovic
A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
February 22, 2018, 6:29 am
Nazi hunter group weighs travel warning for Poland over Holocaust law
Simon Wiesenthal Center says it is considering recommending Jews only travel to the country to visit 'ancestral graves and Holocaust-era death camps'
By TOI staff
A visitor walks by barbed wire fences at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP/Alik Keplicz)
February 21, 2018, 6:45 pm
‘No criminal charges’ under disputed Polish Holocaust law
Deputy FM Bartosz Cichocki says Warsaw won't prosecute those who breach new legislation which criminalizes blaming Poland for Holocaust crimes
By TOI staff and AP
Poland's deputy culture minister, Jaroslaw Sellin, gives an interview on October 2, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)
February 20, 2018, 10:22 pm
Polish deputy minister urges opening of ‘Polocaust’ museum
Jaroslaw Sellin says that after Jews, Nazis sought to annihilate 'Slavic people, especially Poles'
By TOI staff
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz speaks during a joint press conference with his Romanian counterpart (unseen) at the Romanian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Bucharest on February 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel MIHAILESCU)
February 20, 2018, 2:14 pm
Polish FM: Jews denounced Poles who hid them during Holocaust
After PM in Warsaw said Jews were also perpetrators, Jacek Czaputowicz continues war of words over Polish World War II role
By Sue Surkes
Swastikas drawn on the gate of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, found on February 18, 2018. (Israel Police)
February 18, 2018, 5:48 pm
Amid Holocaust quarrel, Polish embassy in Tel Aviv vandalized
Police launch investigation after swastikas, anti-Polish slurs scrawled on facility's gates
By TOI staff
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely attends a ceremony at the Knesset, on November 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 10:03 am
Deputy FM: Polish PM must apologize for ‘outrageous’ remark on Jews
Foreign Ministry to convene emergency meeting over Polish leader's claim that Jews also perpetrated Holocaust
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a lunch meeting at the 54th Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/ DPA/Sven Hoppe)
February 17, 2018, 8:19 pm
Netanyahu calls Polish PM’s claim of Jewish Holocaust perpetrators ‘outrageous’
Mateusz Morawiecki's remarks show 'an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people,' PM says
By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a press conference with the German Chancellor on February 16, 2018 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)
February 17, 2018, 4:51 pm
Israeli opposition hammers Polish PM for saying Jews also perpetrated Holocaust
Zionist Union's Gabbay likens Morawiecki to Holocaust denier, while Yair Lapid says his remark is 'anti-Semitism of the oldest kind,' urges Israeli envoy be recalled
By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi
Jewish people pray in a synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. Many members of Poland's small Jewish community have been left feeling stunned and scared by an eruption of anti-Semitic rhetoric in mainstream Polish public debate. The hostile rhetoric, unheard in public life in decades, comes amid a diplomatic crisis with Israel over a new Polish law that criminalizes some forms of Holocaust speech. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
February 17, 2018, 4:30 pm
Polish Jews stunned, scared by eruption of anti-Semitism
Recent public expressions of Jewish hatred amid tensions with Israel, world Jewry over Holocaust law have Jews reconsidering their future in the country
By Vanessa Gera
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2018, in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)
February 17, 2018, 3:07 pm
Polish prime minister says Jews perpetrated Holocaust too
Defending controversial Holocaust law, Mateusz Morawiecki tells Israeli journalist that many Poles aided their 'Jewish brothers and sisters' during the war
By Tamar Pileggi
Senators attend an overnight session at the Polish Senate in Warsaw, on February 1, 2018. (PAP/Radek Pietruszka/AFP)
February 15, 2018, 8:57 pm
Poles abroad urged to document, report ‘anti-Polish’ statements
After Holocaust law row with Israel, Warsaw senate leader writes letter seeking to defend 'Poland's good name'; Berlin condemns 'shameful' move
By AP and TOI staff
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