October 18, 2013
9:31 pm

The Gdansk mosque, Poland (photo credit: Artur Andrzej/Wikimedia Commons)

Poland mosque burning evokes Kristallnacht

Jewish leaders of Gdansk condemn ‘cowardly act of barbarism’ on the eve of 75th anniversary of local Nazi-inspired pogroms

By JTA

October 15, 2013
6:32 pm

Rabbi Shai Piron at the Knesset, on February 3, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli minister sounds alarm on Polish kosher slaughter ban

Shai Piron warns that further rulings against Jewish community could follow if prohibition isn’t repealed

By Adiv Sterman

October 14, 2013
5:13 am

Entrance to former death camp at Sobibor in eastern Poland (photo: public domain)

70 years after revolt, Sobibor secrets are yet to be unearthed

This season’s scheduled excavations are the most important to date. So why is the Polish government delaying authorization?

By Matt Lebovic

October 13, 2013
12:20 am

Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Turkish students use Nazi salute at concentration camp

From the web Two youths arrested after flashing Hitler greeting at an Israeli delegation in Majdanek, Poland, Today’s Zaman reports

October 11, 2013
3:15 pm

Dignitaries attending the cornerstone laying ceremony for Kiryat Gat's industrial area in 1955. (photo credit: public domain, Yehuda Polkovich, Wikimedia commons)

How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel

A plan used in the 1950s to build a system of towns and villages in the northern Negev was based on a theory developed in the Third Reich, to be used for populating an Eastern Europe cleansed of Jews. Did Zionist planners not know, or not care?

By Joshua Davidovich

October 10, 2013
1:54 pm

Aerial view of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw (photo credit: courtesy)

Pole who helped save Jews donates items to museum

Former FM is among the few freed from Auschwitz, after which he gave Jews fake documents and helped hide them

By AP

October 10, 2013
12:10 pm

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Conservation completed on two Auschwitz blocks

As part of a three-year project, blocks 2 and 3 preserved in an unaltered state

October 9, 2013
11:43 am

Brig. Stefan Baluk, 99, right, the last living WW II airborne fighter shakes hands with a Polish scout during the unveiling ceremony of a monument dedicated to 316 resistance soldiers who parachuted into Nazi occupied Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland honors WWII resistance fighters

The ‘Dark and Silent’ were trained in the West and parachuted into Poland in night flights from Britain and Italy

By AP

October 7, 2013
3:08 am

Jewish author Helene Wecker drew inspiration for 'The Golem and The Jinni' from her marriage to her Arab American husband. (photo credit: Sheldon Wecker)

New fantasy novel draws on that old Jewish black magic

When a female Golem from 19th century Poland and Jinni from Ancient Syria accidentally meet one another, all sorts of mayhem ensues

By Renee Ghert-Zand

October 3, 2013
6:27 pm

Repair work to begin at Auschwitz despite deficit

International organization fell short of fundraising goal, but will start preservation efforts in 2014

By AP and Lazar Berman

September 26, 2013
11:33 pm

Wooden barracks that housed prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. (photo credit: AP/US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Holocaust Museum barracks going back to Poland

DC museum has obtained a permanent set of similar barracks, which will be displayed after five-month installation

By AP

September 10, 2013
7:15 pm

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (courtesy of the USHMM)

Poles admit destroying WWII Jewish hideout

Couple pleads guilty to ruining site listed by authorities in 1999 as a historic monument

By AP

September 2, 2013
6:48 pm

A rabbi sharpens the knife to be used for traditional Jewish slaughter (illustrative photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Polish Jews turn to court over ban on kosher slaughter

Union of communities says new legislation contradicts older law; Muslim groups expected to make own petition

By JTA

August 29, 2013
7:09 pm

US ambassador Stephen Mull, right, hands over to Poland’s deputy Culture Minister Malgorzata Omilanowska, left, a prisoner’s cap from a World War II death camp, in a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, Aug.29, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

US returns stolen Nazi death camp exhibit to Poland

Ambassador to EU country delivers prisoner’s cap — spotted in US online auction site for $1,750 — taken from Majdanek

By AP

August 28, 2013
6:06 am

Polish animal rights demonstrators hold a rally in Warsaw opposing ritual slaughter, or shechitah, July 11, 2013. (photo credit: Empatia PL Facebook/JTA)

Krakow Jewish, Muslim leaders band together to fight ritual slaughter ban

Community leaders issue joint appeal to overturn decision by Polish government

By JTA

Topic: Poland

Poland mosque burning evokes Kristallnacht

Jewish leaders of Gdansk condemn ‘cowardly act of barbarism’ on the eve of 75th anniversary of local Nazi-inspired pogroms

Israeli minister sounds alarm on Polish kosher slaughter ban

Shai Piron warns that further rulings against Jewish community could follow if prohibition isn’t repealed

70 years after revolt, Sobibor secrets are yet to be unearthed

This season’s scheduled excavations are the most important to date. So why is the Polish government delaying authorization?

Turkish students use Nazi salute at concentration camp

From the web Two youths arrested after flashing Hitler greeting at an Israeli delegation in Majdanek, Poland, Today’s Zaman reports

How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel

A plan used in the 1950s to build a system of towns and villages in the northern Negev was based on a theory developed in the Third Reich, to be used for populating an Eastern Europe cleansed of Jews. Did Zionist planners not know, or not care?

Pole who helped save Jews donates items to museum

Former FM is among the few freed from Auschwitz, after which he gave Jews fake documents and helped hide them

Conservation completed on two Auschwitz blocks

As part of a three-year project, blocks 2 and 3 preserved in an unaltered state

Poland honors WWII resistance fighters

The ‘Dark and Silent’ were trained in the West and parachuted into Poland in night flights from Britain and Italy

New fantasy novel draws on that old Jewish black magic

When a female Golem from 19th century Poland and Jinni from Ancient Syria accidentally meet one another, all sorts of mayhem ensues

Repair work to begin at Auschwitz despite deficit

International organization fell short of fundraising goal, but will start preservation efforts in 2014

Holocaust Museum barracks going back to Poland

DC museum has obtained a permanent set of similar barracks, which will be displayed after five-month installation

Poles admit destroying WWII Jewish hideout

Couple pleads guilty to ruining site listed by authorities in 1999 as a historic monument

Polish Jews turn to court over ban on kosher slaughter

Union of communities says new legislation contradicts older law; Muslim groups expected to make own petition

US returns stolen Nazi death camp exhibit to Poland

Ambassador to EU country delivers prisoner’s cap — spotted in US online auction site for $1,750 — taken from Majdanek

Krakow Jewish, Muslim leaders band together to fight ritual slaughter ban

Community leaders issue joint appeal to overturn decision by Polish government

Latest Articles

Latest Blogs

The Times of Israel on Facebook