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Sol Nayman hugs a participant of the March of the Living event during Nayman's first visit in 84 years to Stoczek, Poland on April 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 8, 2023, 1:23 am
In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew
During emotional visit, which happened on Hitler’s birthday, Sol Nayman brought to Stoczek about 100 members of the March of the Living event
By Canaan Lidor
Jonny Daniels stands beside the Israeli and Polish flags atop a residential building overlooking what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland on March 19. (From the Depths)
March 19, 2023, 7:56 pm
Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw
Holocaust commemoration group places the banners atop a roof as an homage to a famous act of defiance during the revolt 80 years ago
By Canaan Lidor
Polish rapper Quebonafide performs in Warsaw, April 21, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons/Itokyl)
December 31, 2020, 8:59 pm
Polish rapper under fire for calling COVID-19 ‘modern Holocaust’
Survivor and president of the From the Depths Holocaust commemoration group says ‘unacceptable’ reference by Quebonafide ‘trivializes our common history’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jonny Daniels delivers groceries to a rescuer of Jews in Warsaw, Poland, March 17, 2020. (Courtesy of From the Depths/ via JTA)
March 21, 2020, 3:37 pm
Jewish group delivers food to aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
From the Depths, an organization dedicated to helping Righteous Gentiles who risked their lives in WWII, converts a free taxi service to bring supplies amid the coronavirus crisis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jonny Daniels, third from left, with the Bicaku family in their home in Durres, Albania, Dec. 11, 2019. (Courtesy of From the Depths)
December 18, 2019, 6:55 pm
Jewish group to repair earthquake-struck home of Albanian Muslim who saved Jews
House of Muhamet Bicaku, whose father and brother sheltered 20 Jews from occupation forces during Holocaust, was devastated in calamity that claimed 55 lives
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Xhemal Veseli, left, with Jonny Daniels in Tirana, Albania in October 2019. (Courtesy of From the Depths via JTA)
October 15, 2019, 9:47 pm
Albanian who rescued Jews during Holocaust to be honored in Poland
Group organizing event says testimonies like 93-year-old Xhemal Veseli’s ‘bring us together as Jews and Muslims’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Edward Mosberg, holding a Torah scroll, during March of the Living in 2017 at the former death camp Auschwitz in Poland. (Courtesy of From the Depths via JTA)
June 21, 2019, 5:10 pm
Survivor invites Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz with him
‘It should be a requirement of all United States Congressmen to visit Auschwitz,’ says Edward Mosberg, 93, after lawmaker calls US migrant detention centers ‘concentration camps’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)
April 3, 2019, 11:16 pm
Activists petition Polish police to bar Holocaust denier from country
David Irving causes uproar with plan to give tour of death camps in September
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Republican Representative Steve King of Iowa on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 27, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 26, 2018, 2:39 am
GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit
After going on trip to Poland funded by education group, Steve King meets with Freedom Party, says Germans shouldn’t have to apologize for Holocaust anymore
By Josefin Dolsten
Jonny Daniels’ From the Depths organization honors three Poles for risking their lives to save Jews. (Jonny Daniels/Facebook)
September 13, 2018, 10:38 pm
Yad Vashem questions honors for 3 Poles as rescuers of Jews from Holocaust
Museum says credit given by From the Depths organization is based on unclear information and could result in public being misled
By JTA
Jonny Daniels meets with Moshe Tirosh on January 13, 2015 in Karmiel, Israel. (Photo by Elan Kawesch via JTA)
January 4, 2018, 5:04 am
Meet Poland’s best-known, and most controversial, Jew
London-born Israeli activist Jonny Daniels, 31, has been branded a ‘court Jew’ over warm ties with far-right, but is also credited with halting anti-Semitic radio broadcasts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
From left: Rabbi Shalom Stembler, head of Chabad Poland; Polish actor and director Artur Hofman; Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's Law and Justice party; Jonny Daniels, head of From the Depths; and Rabbi Eliezer Gurary, head of Chabad Krakow, following their meeting in Warsaw, August 16, 2017. (Courtesy of From the Depths/via JTA)
August 22, 2017, 3:46 am
Polish Jewish feud intensifies as one leader calls others ‘court Jews’
B’nai B’rith president slams community leaders for meeting Law and Justice Party founder amid criticism over response to rising anti-Semitism
By JTA
From left: Rabbi Shalom Stembler, head of Chabad Poland; Polish actor and director Artur Hofman; Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's Law and Justice party; Jonny Daniels, head of From the Depths; and Rabbi Eliezer Gurary, head of Chabad Krakow, following their meeting in Warsaw, August 16, 2017. (Courtesy of From the Depths/via JTA)
August 19, 2017, 3:47 pm
Polish Jewish leadership spars over whether country is seeing rise in anti-Semitism
While some claim heightened threats, leader of Polish Jewish umbrella organization dismisses them as a political play
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Villagers attending a fake Jewish wedding in the Polish village of Radzanow, August 5, 2017. (Jonny Daniels/From the Depths/via JTA)
August 10, 2017, 3:37 am
Polish villagers hold Jewish wedding… without Jews
Cultural group promoting Polish heritage stages event featuring non-Jewish volunteers dressed in traditional costumes, with fake beards and side curls
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
August 16, 2016, 8:09 am
Polish president pens passionate eulogy for Sobibor survivor
Andrzej Duda describes Filip Białowicz, who escaped death camp, as ‘an ardent advocate of mutual friendship and respect among nations’
By JTA
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