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antisemitism in Poland

Participants in the Miszpucha Foundation trip for Polish Jewish emigrants and their descendants have lunch at the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, Poland. (Adam de Kaminski via JTA)
June 13, 2026, 3:54 pm
13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story
Decades after anti-Zionist purge virtually decimated what was left of post-Holocaust Jewish life, government-funded trip brings emigrants back for reunion with those who remained
By Shira Li Bartov
Director Yoav Potash (left) greets Yaacov Goldstein, one of the last Jewish survivors of Gniewoszów, Poland. (Courtesy of 8 Above via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 2:47 pm
Poland ‘investigates’ film about Jews killed after the Holocaust, may ban it
California filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors’ follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown — and it’s causing a far-right uproar
By Shira Li Bartov
The magical, black-and-white animation of 'Among Neighbors,' filmmaker Yoav Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)
December 8, 2025, 1:52 pm
Holocaust film ‘Among Neighbors’ causes uproar in Poland’s political right
Yoav Potash’s award-winning documentary about murderous Poles in the post-war period stirs nationalist outrage
By Jessica Steinberg
Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)
November 26, 2025, 10:59 am
‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews,’ MP declares outside Auschwitz death camp
Far-right European Parliament member Grzegorz Braun says a Polish plan to fight antisemitism and promote Jewish life would be like ‘inviting Hannibal Lecter to move in next door’
By Zev Stub
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
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
By Shira Li Bartov
Protesters wave Palestinian flags and claim a genocide is unfolding in Gaza outside the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland on May 6, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 6, 2025, 10:07 pm
Pro-Palestinian activists assail Polish film fest over sponsor’s Israel investments
Even as anti-Israel groups call for a boycott due to sponsorship by BNP Paribas, Wrocław festival condemns ‘genocide’ in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw's Mayor and member of ruling centrist Civic Coalition party, flashes a V for victory sign as he greets supporters as exit polls were announced on tv during their election night event at the the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
June 1, 2025, 11:56 pm
Liberal mayor, anti-EU Holocaust revisionist both claim victory in Poland election
Exit poll shows government-favored centrist Rafal Trzaskowski just ahead of right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki, who is backed by populist Law and Justice, but results could change
By Agencies
Supporters of Poland's presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki hold Polish flags as they gather to attend a campaign rally in Warsaw on May 25, 2025, a week ahead of the second round of presidential elections. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
May 31, 2025, 1:42 pm
Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot
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
By Shira Li Bartov
Ukrainian refugee children look at the drawings at the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 18, 2024, 4:29 pm
Polish textbooks continue to teach antisemitic tropes in schools, report finds
Despite negative findings, study says educational content related to the Holocaust and Jewish history has improved since last report in 2016
By Zev Stub
Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
Jagiellonian University's Collegium Broscianum, in Krakow, Poland, September 8, 2012. (CC BY-SA, Mateusz Giełczyński via Wikipedia)
October 18, 2024, 11:05 pm
Polish police probe ‘Jews to the gas’ sign at building occupied by anti-Israel students
Group denies hanging antisemitic signs outside Krakow’s Jagiellonian University; Jewish community: Facade of anti-Zionism recalls Communists’ excuse for 1968 anti-Jewish purge
By ToI Staff
Students shout slogans and display a banner reading "Long live the student intifada" as they take part in an anti-Israel rally at the Sorbonne University in Paris on April 29, 2024. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP)
May 2, 2024, 2:18 pm
France seen as more antisemitic than Poland in new poll among Israelis
Almost half of respondents say Poles were as much to blame for the Holocaust as Germans; Germany now seen as least antisemitic
By Canaan Lidor
A Polish police officer stands guard outside the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw on May 1, 2024, after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the building. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP)
May 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Polish police investigate arson attack on Warsaw synagogue
No significant damage done to house of worship in incident, and none hurt
By AFP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)
April 9, 2024, 9:09 pm
Far-right Polish MP charged after extinguishing parliament’s Hanukkah candles
Grzegorz Braun indicted for insulting people on religious grounds; disrupting Jewish community event, lawmaker described holiday as ‘satanic,’ said he was restoring ‘normality’
By Reuters
Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)
January 17, 2024, 11:09 pm
Poles strip immunity from far-right lawmaker who extinguished Hanukkah candles
Parliamentary vote paves way for charges against Grzegorz Braun, who described Jewish festival as ‘satanic’; lawmaker claims accusations against him ‘inconsistent’ with truth
By Reuters
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