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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Beata Szydlo

Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera via JTA)
May 1, 2021, 6:34 am
Auschwitz inmates’ families oppose ex-PM on museum council
Relatives say former Polish PM Beata Szydlo has tolerated ‘openly fascist’ groups and supported attempts to stifle research into the Holocaust
By AP
Then-Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo lights a candle at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism, after a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
April 16, 2021, 8:35 pm
3 resign from Auschwitz council over right-wing Polish politician’s appointment
Jewish leader who quit museum’s advisory board expresses concern the move could be part of ruling party’s ‘historical policy,’ which critics allege distorts the past
By Vanessa Gera
In this Friday, April 7, 2017 file photo, Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo delivers a speech to parliament in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 30, 2017, 9:23 pm
Poland calls for WWII reparations amid strains with Germany, EU
PM says ‘Poland is only asking for justice’ amid criticism of her government’s stance toward the rule of law
By Vanessa Gera
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo arrives at a European Union Summit held at the EU Council building in Brussels, on March 18, 2016. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)
June 15, 2017, 3:06 am
Polish PM under fire for anti-migrant remarks at Auschwitz
Beata Szydlo says Nazi death camp ‘a great lesson showing that everything must be done to protect the safety and life of one’s citizens’
By Vanessa Gera
European Council President Donald Tusk, panel right, speaks to EU leaders during an EU summit meeting at the Orazi and Curiazi Hall in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome on Saturday, March 25, 2017 (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
March 25, 2017, 2:56 pm
Troubled EU seeks unity on 60th birthday
With Brexit looming and economic, security and social crises brewing, leaders at special summit renew their vows for ‘common future’
By Danny Kemp and Angus Mackinnon
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
January 27, 2017, 5:19 pm
On Holocaust remembrance day, warnings of rising xenophobia
UN secretary-general laments ‘tragedy’ of ongoing anti-Semitism, vows to be on ‘front lines’ of fight against hatred; German FM: ‘There can and should be no end to remembrance’
By Vanessa Gera
A US soldier is welcomed by a Polish army official as US Army vehicles cross the Polish border in Olszyna, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 heading for their new base in Zagan. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 14, 2017, 5:56 pm
Poland welcomes US troops amid rising tensions with Russia
‘We have waited for you for a very long time,’ defense minister says 23 years after the last Soviet troops left Polish land
By Vanessa Gera
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
August 18, 2016, 10:30 am
Is new Polish law an attempt to whitewash its citizens’ roles in the Holocaust?
Some experts worry that legislation which criminalizes talk of ‘Polish death camps’ places emphasis on one aspect of World War II history while suppressing country’s dark past
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo arrives at a European Union Summit held at the EU Council building in Brussels, on March 18, 2016. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)
March 24, 2016, 4:14 pm
Poland PM refuses to take in refugees after Brussels attacks
Beata Szydlo reneges on deal to accept 7,000 asylum seekers, says there are terrorists among them
By AFP
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