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The SS 'tower of death' entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, under which trains of Jewish deportees passed in 1944, when a spur was added to the existing track. The November 2015 photo was taken from outside the camp entrance. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
February 26, 2016, 3:23 pm
Do the words ‘Polish death camps’ defame Poland? And if so, who’s to blame?
As Poland prepares a bill that makes calling Nazi-era death camps ‘Polish’ libelous, a look at the term’s Cold War origins, and the controversy’s impressive staying power
By Matt Lebovic
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 30, 2015, 4:39 pm
Memorial to saviors of the Jews stirs mixed emotions in Poland
Critics say monument will misrepresent country’s largely indifferent response to plight of 3.3 million Jewish Poles during WWII
By Vanessa Gera
Animation drawing from 'Karski & The Lords of Humanity' by Tomasz Niedzwiedz. (Courtesy)
June 14, 2015, 1:53 pm
Decades after Karski rang alarm, unheeded Shoah warnings brought to life
Director Slawomir Grünberg uses animation to illustrate the dramatic testimony of the Polish resistance fighter who brought reports of Jewish genocide to Allied leaders
By Renee Ghert-Zand
David Strathairn stars in Georgetown University production of 'Remember This: Walking With Jan Karski.' (Rafael Suanes/Georgetown Univ.)
October 29, 2014, 2:07 pm
Oscar-nominated actor reprises Jan Karski role in Warsaw
David Strathairn plays Polish resistance fighter who warned Allies about Nazi atrocities
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Agata Trzebuchowska as Ida Lebenstein, right, and Agata Kulesza as Wanda Gruz in the Polish fiIm 'Ida.' (Courtesy photo via JTA)
April 27, 2014, 4:02 am
New Polish films portray competing Holocaust histories
There are two narratives in Poland today — one emphasizing collaboration with the Nazis and the other celebrating rescuers of Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jan Karski (photo credit: © Carol Harrison)
April 23, 2014, 5:28 am
Holocaust whistleblower Jan Karski honored by Georgetown
University observes 100th birthday of beloved professor, a member of Polish underground who urged Roosevelt to bomb Auschwitz train tracks
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jan Karski (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Szczebrzeszynski, Wikimedia Commons)
December 14, 2013, 6:40 am
Poland to honor partisan who warned about Holocaust
2014 will be dedicated to Jan Karski, the man who informed the allies about the Holocaust and died in 2000
By JTA
Martyna Majewska, center, guides a tour in Warsaw that shows former Jewish sites. (Marcin Kozlinski via JTA)
November 3, 2012, 1:44 pm
Polish gentiles increasingly embrace Jewish culture as part of their own heritage
Growing efforts to preserve and resurrect Poland’s Jewish past reflect changing attitudes to country’s anti-Semitic history
By Katarzyna Markusz
October 11, 2012, 8:00 pm
Google Cultural Institute preserves Jewish content in first exhibits
New online connection features content on Holocaust, Israel’s War of Independence and American Jewry
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowsk (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)
June 2, 2012, 3:54 am
Obama, in letter to Polish president, says he regrets ‘Polish death camp’ gaffe
Polish foreign minister invites White House staffers for re-education
May 30, 2012, 11:50 am
Obama awards Medal of Freedom to Albright, Dylan
Israeli President Shimon Peres will receive the medal in a separate event next month
US President Barack Obama (photo credit: Official White House/Pete Souza)
May 30, 2012, 7:48 am
White House apologizes for Obama’s ‘Polish death camp’ gaffe
Polish FM slams president’s ‘outrageous, incompetent’ Holocaust slip up at ceremony to honor anti-Nazi war hero
Jan Karski at USHMM, 1994 (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA, E. Thomas Wood, Wikimedia Commons)
May 28, 2012, 9:16 pm
Jan Karski, from hell on earth to US presidential honor
The Polish Catholic was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, after which Karski traveled to the UK and US to convince world leaders of the Jews’ annihilation. World leaders were ‘rather noncommittal’
By Rafael Medoff
April 27, 2012, 9:02 am
Obama adds Dylan, Albright to Freedom Medal recipients
Albright learned from a reporter in 1997 that her parents had hid their Jewishness from her
April 24, 2012, 10:59 am
Jan Karski to receive posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
Was an officer of the Polish Underground during World War II
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