October 18, 2014
5:29 am

This photo from 1946 provided by the Gutowski family shows Gene Gutowski, a producer of four of Roman Polanski’s films, in Germany while he was working as a counterintelligence officer for the Americans tracking down Nazis. (AP Photo)

New film tells Holocaust story of Polanski producer

Gene Gutowski, who assumed Polish identity to survive war, didn’t tell sons about Jewish identity for years

By Vanessa Gera

September 8, 2014
12:37 pm

Andrew Borowiec's memoir 'Warsaw Boy' recounts his life as a teenage resistance fighter in the Warsaw Uprising. (courtesy)

Babe in arms: The tale of a teenaged resistance fighter

70 years in the making, Andrew Borowiec’s memoir ‘Warsaw Boy’ began on a WWII toilet paper roll

By JP O’ Malley

June 6, 2014
8:18 am

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (photo credit: Courtesy of USHMM)

Germany to extend benefits to ghetto laborers

In ‘long-delayed’ move, Berlin will dole out $461 million to some 40,000 Holocaust survivors forced to work in ghettos

By AP

April 2, 2014
10:25 pm

People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz at the Warsaw Ghetto, the monument at the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (photo credit: Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Warsaw demolishes ghetto wall, promises reconstruction

Area adjacent to plaza where Polish Jews were shipped to Treblinka cleared to remove vegetation, cut trees

By JTA

February 18, 2014
9:35 am

Monika Czerniec, art restoration expert, paints elaborate wall paintings that tell the story of Polandâs Jewish community at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s Jewish museum gets interior decoration

Museum aims to reconstruct the climate of Jewish towns and synagogues through historical objects and multimedia displays

By AP

February 14, 2014
3:43 pm

An unidentified Holocaust survivor sits holding his cane in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial complex in Jerusalem (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Germany ups pensions for Nazi-era laborers in Israel

Average payment per person set for about $20,500

By JTA

January 27, 2014
6:12 pm

'Synagogue Interior,' 1930, Oil on parchment, 34.5 x 49.8 cm (image courtesy of the Rynecki family)

The quest for paintings from a lost Jewish world

Elizabeth Rynecki attempts to locate her great-grandfather Moshe’s art, so that while he perished in the Holocaust, his story may live

By Cathryn Prince

November 18, 2013
5:49 pm

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

Opposition arises to planned Warsaw Ghetto monument

Proposed site for memorial to Polish rescuers during Holocaust angers some of country’s Jews

By JTA

September 18, 2013
8:21 pm

This Jan 27, 2012 file photo shows Holocaust survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki speakinh during a Holocaust hour of remembrance at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin. (Photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn, File)

Holocaust survivor, top German lit critic dies

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, passes away at age 93

By Geir Moulson

September 10, 2013
7:15 pm

Poles admit destroying WWII Jewish hideout

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

By AP

August 4, 2013
6:56 pm

The Treblinka extermination camp. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Escapee’s daughter to design Treblinka education center

Israeli architect Orit Willenberg-Giladi named in ceremony last week; her father Samuel is camp’s last known survivor

June 21, 2013
3:52 pm

Simha Rotem, one of the last living Warsaw Ghetto fighters, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial, during a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Memorial to Warsaw Ghetto uprising is vandalized

Words ‘Jude Raus’ discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound

May 29, 2013
4:39 pm

Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz (photo credit: Polish Photography Agency/Polska Agencja Fotografów)

Polish professor axed for blaming Holocaust on Jews

Historian says he’ll appeal academy decision to oust him over remarks that Jews ‘worked for centuries’ to bring about Shoah

May 21, 2013
9:51 pm

Warsaw Ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Spiegel fought in the 1943 anti-Nazi uprising, was ‘forced by circumstances’ to do extraordinary things, son says

April 25, 2013
7:43 pm

Cohen family patriarch, Roger. (photo credit: courtesy Six Island Productions)

The best little Jewish strip joint in Canada

Getting a lap dance for his bar mitzvah was just part of life for filmmaker Shawney Cohen, whose documentary debuts this week

By Jordan Hoffman

Topic: Warsaw Ghetto

New film tells Holocaust story of Polanski producer

Gene Gutowski, who assumed Polish identity to survive war, didn’t tell sons about Jewish identity for years

Babe in arms: The tale of a teenaged resistance fighter

70 years in the making, Andrew Borowiec’s memoir ‘Warsaw Boy’ began on a WWII toilet paper roll

Germany to extend benefits to ghetto laborers

In ‘long-delayed’ move, Berlin will dole out $461 million to some 40,000 Holocaust survivors forced to work in ghettos

Warsaw demolishes ghetto wall, promises reconstruction

Area adjacent to plaza where Polish Jews were shipped to Treblinka cleared to remove vegetation, cut trees

Poland’s Jewish museum gets interior decoration

Museum aims to reconstruct the climate of Jewish towns and synagogues through historical objects and multimedia displays

Germany ups pensions for Nazi-era laborers in Israel

Average payment per person set for about $20,500

The quest for paintings from a lost Jewish world

Elizabeth Rynecki attempts to locate her great-grandfather Moshe’s art, so that while he perished in the Holocaust, his story may live

Opposition arises to planned Warsaw Ghetto monument

Proposed site for memorial to Polish rescuers during Holocaust angers some of country’s Jews

Holocaust survivor, top German lit critic dies

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, passes away at age 93

Poles admit destroying WWII Jewish hideout

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

Escapee’s daughter to design Treblinka education center

Israeli architect Orit Willenberg-Giladi named in ceremony last week; her father Samuel is camp’s last known survivor

Memorial to Warsaw Ghetto uprising is vandalized

Words ‘Jude Raus’ discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound

Polish professor axed for blaming Holocaust on Jews

Historian says he’ll appeal academy decision to oust him over remarks that Jews ‘worked for centuries’ to bring about Shoah

Warsaw Ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Spiegel fought in the 1943 anti-Nazi uprising, was ‘forced by circumstances’ to do extraordinary things, son says

The best little Jewish strip joint in Canada

Getting a lap dance for his bar mitzvah was just part of life for filmmaker Shawney Cohen, whose documentary debuts this week

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