Join our Community
Support ToI and remove all ads
Learn more

ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Bronislaw Komorowski

Former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski seen reacting after the announcement of the exit poll results of the second round of the presidential election in Warsaw, on May 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
April 2, 2018, 9:54 am
Polish ex-president: Holocaust Law a ‘legislative failure, political mistake’
Bronislaw Komorowski says defending Warsaw in wake of controversial legislation ‘has become impossible’
By Sue Surkes
Poland-born Jewish American historian Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to Polish media on August 28, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
February 14, 2016, 1:04 pm
Poland moves to strip Jewish Holocaust scholar of award
American-Polish professor Jan Tomasz Gross could lose prestigious honor for asserting Poles’ complicity in the Holocaust
By Tamar Pileggi
Opposition candidate Andrzej Duda celebrates his victory (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 26, 2015, 3:07 pm
Polish Jews ready to cooperate with new right-wing president
In contrast to his predecessor in largely ceremonial post, Andrzej Duda has rejected apologizing for Poles’ role in Holocaust as ‘attempt to destroy’ country’s good name
By ToI Staff and JTA
Opposition candidate Andrzej Duda celebrates his victory (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 26, 2015, 5:12 am
Conservative challenger wins Polish presidential race
Unlike predecessor in ceremonial post, Duda has rejected acknowledging Poland’s role in Holocaust as ‘attempt to destroy’ country’s good name
By AP and ToI Staff
Andrzej Duda, presidential candidate of the Polish conservative party PiS (Law and Justice) leaves after voting during the second round of the presidential election at a polling station in Krakow, Poland on May 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / BARTOSZ SIEDLIK)
May 25, 2015, 12:27 am
Poland elects right-wing president who criticized predecessor’s apologies to Jews
Andrzej Duda slammed Bronislaw Komorowski for acknowledging Polish farmers’ massacre of Jewish neighbors in Jedwabne
By AP and JTA
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski attends a state ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, March 12, 2015 (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 23, 2015, 12:38 am
Polish president reiterates country’s Holocaust complicity
In election debate, Bronislaw Komorowski defends his apologies for massacre of Jews by citizens of Poland during WWII
By JTA
In this May 5, 2015 photo Janusz Palikot, the head of a left-wing party who is running for the Polish presidency in Sunday's election, waits for the start of a presidential debate in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
May 10, 2015, 1:59 am
Motley mix of players challenge Polish president in Sunday election
Punk rock star, far-right MEP, and blonde bombshell actress among challengers, who have little chance of unseating popular Komorowski
By Vanessa Gera
Poland's First Lady Anna Komorowska (left); Annette Chalut, camp survivor (center); and Germany's First Lady Daniela Schadt (right), plant roses at the former Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrueck in Fuerstenberg, northeastern Germany, on April 19, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Red Army on April 30, 1945. (photo credit: AP/Ferdinand Ostrop)
April 19, 2015, 7:58 pm
Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 70 years ago
Polish, German officials pay respects to victims, survivors of Ravensbrück facility in northern Germany
By Ferdinand Ostrop
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, left, and Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical Centre of Europe have been at odds publicly over Schudrich's handling of the kosher slaughter ban in Poland. (Creative Commons/Facebook via JTA)
August 8, 2013, 10:42 am
Rival rabbis’ knives come out over Polish shechitah ban
Competing clerics battle each other rather than opponents of kosher slaughter, as religious turf war escalates
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowsk (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)
July 8, 2013, 9:24 am
Poles honor victims of WWII killings in Ukraine
Some 60,000 Poles were killed during 1943 and 1944 by Ukrainians in an effort to ‘ethnic cleanse’ Wolyn border region
Irena Sendler in 2005. (photo credit: Mariusz Kubik)
May 16, 2013, 1:35 pm
Polish walkway named for woman who saved Jews
Social worker Irena Sendler credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust
People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto at a monument on the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
April 23, 2013, 12:38 pm
An alternative Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial
During last week’s commemorations, the grave of the uprising’s last surviving commander was blanketed in daffodils. Here’s why
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
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)
April 19, 2013, 1:50 pm
Warsaw marks 70th anniversary of ghetto uprising
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski leads ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
By Vanessa Gera
Warsaw Ghetto survivor Jakub Gutenbaum, 83, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)
April 18, 2013, 10:00 pm
Warsaw Ghetto survivor recalls living through inferno
Jakub Gutenbaum was 13 when the uprising broke out; later he survived Majdanek
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
A memorial ceremony for the Warsaw Ghetto heroes in Warsaw, Poland. April 19, 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
April 17, 2013, 2:35 pm
Poland’s lawmakers honor Warsaw ghetto fighters
As 70th anniversary of failed revolt against Nazis approaches, parliament salutes ‘the victims and heroes of the uprising’
Load More
Sign in or Register
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.
Never miss breaking news on Israel
Get notifications to stay updated
You're subscribed
image
Register for free
and continue reading
Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.