July 8, 2016
11:53 am

US President Barack Obama (left) meets European Council President Donald Tusk (3rd right), European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (4th right) and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Federica Mogherini (right) on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Warsaw, July 8, 2016. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Brexit, Russia dominate NATO summit

Ahead of Warsaw gathering, Obama says he’s confident UK, EU can ‘agree on an orderly transition’

By Bryan McManus

July 6, 2016
10:09 pm

Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, at a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, on October 8, 2015. (AP/Sergei Grits)

Belarusian Nobel winner accuses Poles of persecuting Jews in Holocaust

Claims over Polish actions in WWII hits a nerve, as country seeks to distance itself from an anti-Semitic past

By JTA

July 6, 2016
9:07 pm

Ryszard Petru, who is not Jewish, was hit with an anti-Semitic death threat. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Polish party leader gets anti-Semitic death threat

Note signed by ‘sniper’ calls Ryszard Petru of the Modern Party a ‘Jewish son of a bitch’ who ‘needs to be shot’

By JTA

July 5, 2016
5:03 am

Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Kielce, Poland, Monday, July 4, 2016 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president: No room for anti-Semitism in the country

At 70th anniversary of Kielce massacre, Andrzej Duda condemns all forms of ‘prejudice, racism, xenophobia’

By AP

June 28, 2016
10:11 pm

This photo taken on October 22, 2015 shows Jaroslaw Kaczynski leader of the opposition Law and Justice party in this weekend's general elections speaking at a party convention in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI)

Prominent Poland politician honors victims of synagogue burning

Leader of largest political party stresses German responsibility for Holocaust at Bialystok memorial

By JTA

June 23, 2016
5:54 pm

The Holocaust memorial constructed at Treblinka, the former Nazi death camps in eastern Poland (photo credit: Caroline Sturdy Colls)

Polish government looks to take over, upgrade Treblinka museum

Holocaust commemoration group hails move, says it could bring ‘true understanding’ of what happened in the camp

By JTA

June 11, 2016
2:12 am

The Amber Room of St. Petersburg's Catherine Palace in 1931. (Branson DeCou, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Could long-lost Amber Room be stashed in a Nazi bunker in Poland?

From the web New York Times: Historian in northeast Poland believes he’s found missing Russian treasure stolen by Germany at end of World War II

June 10, 2016
4:05 pm

Chair of Operations for the World Jewish Restitution Organization Gideon Taylor speaks at the International Coordination Forum for the Restitution of Holocaust Era Assets in Jerusalem, on June 8, 2016. (Elram Mandel/MFA)

At international forum on Holocaust restitution, ‘J’accuse’ against Poland

World Jewish Restitution Organization head decries utter lack of compensation in the country that, prior to World War II, 3 million Jews called home

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

June 10, 2016
4:29 am

Pope Francis flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni (right), during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, January 17, 2016. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis to visit Auschwitz in July

Pontiff to deliver speech at Nazi death camp during five-day trip to Poland

By JTA

June 6, 2016
10:13 pm

American rapper Kosha Dillz performing at the Tempel Synagogue during Night of the Synagogues in Krakow, Poland, on June 4, 2016. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

In Krakow, Night of the Synagogues bolsters Jewish pride

Houses of worship transformed to house art exhibits, concerts and movie showings in one-night mini-festival organized by community leaders

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

June 3, 2016
6:06 am

Isabel and Reuben (Ruby) Schiller in Cuba in the early 1940s (Courtesy)

Yiddish was mom and dad’s language of love in WWII Cuba

Daughter’s half-hour short ‘It Happened in Havana’ opens door to learning more about Cuban Jewish history

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 3, 2016
5:50 am

Robert Desmond (left) at the finish line of the 'Ride for the Living' in June 2014. (Courtesy)

‘Overwhelming’ number of riders in Auschwitz bike event

At least 150 cyclists from 8 countries will take part in third ‘Ride for the Living’ event in Poland

By JTA

June 2, 2016
7:38 pm

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich attends a meeting in the Knesset, March 29, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Travel company flew police delegation to Poland, despite graft probe

Hillel Tours arranged Holocaust memorial visit for 250 cops, including commissioner, amid suspicions of price fixing

By Stuart Winer

June 1, 2016
2:56 am

The Rajgord monument in Poland (Courtesy of FODZ)

Teen arrested for allegedly smashing Holocaust memorial in Poland

16-year-old, escaped from state juvenile care center, spray-painted offensive slogans and neo-Nazi symbol on monument

By JTA

May 31, 2016
12:06 pm

Film director Roman Polanski, accompanied by his lawyers, arrives for a hearing in Krakow on Feb. 25, 2015. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Poland relaunches move to extradite Polanski to US

Justice minister seeks to reverse court’s anti-extradition decision so director can be sentenced for 1977 rape

By Michel VIATTEAU

Topic: Poland

Brexit, Russia dominate NATO summit

Ahead of Warsaw gathering, Obama says he’s confident UK, EU can ‘agree on an orderly transition’

Belarusian Nobel winner accuses Poles of persecuting Jews in Holocaust

Claims over Polish actions in WWII hits a nerve, as country seeks to distance itself from an anti-Semitic past

Polish party leader gets anti-Semitic death threat

Note signed by ‘sniper’ calls Ryszard Petru of the Modern Party a ‘Jewish son of a bitch’ who ‘needs to be shot’

Polish president: No room for anti-Semitism in the country

At 70th anniversary of Kielce massacre, Andrzej Duda condemns all forms of ‘prejudice, racism, xenophobia’

Prominent Poland politician honors victims of synagogue burning

Leader of largest political party stresses German responsibility for Holocaust at Bialystok memorial

Polish government looks to take over, upgrade Treblinka museum

Holocaust commemoration group hails move, says it could bring ‘true understanding’ of what happened in the camp

Could long-lost Amber Room be stashed in a Nazi bunker in Poland?

From the web New York Times: Historian in northeast Poland believes he’s found missing Russian treasure stolen by Germany at end of World War II

At international forum on Holocaust restitution, ‘J’accuse’ against Poland

World Jewish Restitution Organization head decries utter lack of compensation in the country that, prior to World War II, 3 million Jews called home

Pope Francis to visit Auschwitz in July

Pontiff to deliver speech at Nazi death camp during five-day trip to Poland

In Krakow, Night of the Synagogues bolsters Jewish pride

Houses of worship transformed to house art exhibits, concerts and movie showings in one-night mini-festival organized by community leaders

Yiddish was mom and dad’s language of love in WWII Cuba

Daughter’s half-hour short ‘It Happened in Havana’ opens door to learning more about Cuban Jewish history

‘Overwhelming’ number of riders in Auschwitz bike event

At least 150 cyclists from 8 countries will take part in third ‘Ride for the Living’ event in Poland

Travel company flew police delegation to Poland, despite graft probe

Hillel Tours arranged Holocaust memorial visit for 250 cops, including commissioner, amid suspicions of price fixing

Teen arrested for allegedly smashing Holocaust memorial in Poland

16-year-old, escaped from state juvenile care center, spray-painted offensive slogans and neo-Nazi symbol on monument

Poland relaunches move to extradite Polanski to US

Justice minister seeks to reverse court’s anti-extradition decision so director can be sentenced for 1977 rape

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