The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/polish-jews/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:22:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Polish Jews | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/polish-jews/ 32 32 Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it https://www.timesofisrael.com/avenging-angel-risked-her-life-to-try-to-save-warsaws-jews-and-lived-to-write-about-it/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:48:06 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3797701 Updated English translation of Vladka Meed's 1948 Yiddish memoir, 'On Both Sides of the Wall,' breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis

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]]> In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-polish-town-where-locals-burned-jews-alive-alternate-memorial-denies-complicity/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:58:13 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3597608 Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week's commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators

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]]> Pro-Palestinian activists assail Polish film fest over sponsor’s Israel investments https://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activists-assail-polish-film-fest-over-sponsors-israel-investments/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:07:34 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3592017 Even as anti-Israel groups call for a boycott due to sponsorship by BNP Paribas, Wrocław festival condemns 'genocide' in Gaza

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]]> Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot https://www.timesofisrael.com/poland-votes-for-next-president-with-holocaust-history-an-apparent-item-on-the-ballot/ Sat, 31 May 2025 10:42:14 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3562288 In Sunday's crucial runoff election, Warsaw's liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite the country's role in the Holocaust

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]]> Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar https://www.timesofisrael.com/jesse-eisenberg-receives-polish-citizenship-after-film-wins-oscar/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:26:17 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3498486 At NY ceremony, actor, screenwriter and director tells Polish president it's the 'honor of a lifetime'; movie 'A Real Pain' tells story of 2 cousins exploring family's Holocaust history

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]]> Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeology-students-excavating-a-warsaw-jewish-cemetery-are-uncovering-a-forgotten-world/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:09:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3493677 200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots - until now

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]]> In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz-a-museum-commemorates-an-ancient-polish-jewish-community/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:30:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3470549 Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, the last Jewish resident keeps their memory alive

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]]> Newly found letter shows Martin Buber’s concern over the fate of Polish Jews in 1945 https://www.timesofisrael.com/newly-found-letter-shows-martin-bubers-concern-over-the-fate-of-polish-jews-in-1945/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:40:35 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3469694 On February 5, 1945, some Hebrew University scholars launched an appeal to fellow faculty members encouraging them to mobilize for European Jews

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]]> Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics https://www.timesofisrael.com/polands-jewish-museum-marks-its-first-decade-made-tumultuous-by-politics/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:09:31 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3408066 In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust and are now just a few thousand

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]]> Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-record-post-oct-7-antisemitism-european-jews-are-out-and-proud-this-sukkot/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:11:03 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3398517 From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual -- with a little bit of extra protection

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]]> Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis https://www.timesofisrael.com/owners-of-lublins-oldest-bakery-learn-it-had-belonged-to-jewish-family-killed-by-nazis/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:39:59 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3362061 Before 99% of the city's Jews were murdered, the Kuźmiuk Bakery brought customers from near and far; the descendants of the family who took over only learned of its origins in 2017

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]]> Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up https://www.timesofisrael.com/thought-to-be-destroyed-by-nazis-books-of-the-lublin-yeshiva-library-are-turning-up/ Mon, 06 May 2024 07:03:00 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3214319 Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them - the tip of the iceberg, he says

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]]> France seen as more antisemitic than Poland in new poll among Israelis https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-seen-as-more-antisemitic-than-poland-in-new-poll-among-israelis/ Thu, 02 May 2024 11:18:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3280479 Almost half of respondents say Poles were as much to blame for the Holocaust as Germans; Germany now seen as least antisemitic

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]]> Far-right Polish MP charged after extinguishing parliament’s Hanukkah candles https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-polish-mp-charged-after-extinguishing-parliaments-hanukkah-candles/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:09:36 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3264897 Grzegorz Braun indicted for insulting people on religious grounds; disrupting Jewish community event, lawmaker described holiday as 'satanic,' said he was restoring 'normality'

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]]> Polish minister compares local film on migrant crisis to Nazi propaganda https://www.timesofisrael.com/polish-minister-compares-local-film-on-migrant-crisis-to-nazi-propaganda/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:14 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3097652 Zbigniew Ziobro sparks feud with famous filmmaker Agnieszka Holland as he complains depiction of border agents in 'The Green Border' insults the country

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