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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Jan Tomasz Gross

An image from a Polish government video clip which claims that Jews and Poles suffered Nazi terrors together, February 2018. (YouTube screenshot)
February 13, 2018, 7:16 pm
Polish government insists Poles and Jews suffered Nazism ‘together’
Video by PM’s office says: ‘We did much to save Jews — as a state, as citizens, as friends… Today, we are still on the side of truth’
By Sue Surkes
Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 8, 2018, 5:08 pm
Complicity of Poles in the deaths of Jews is highly underestimated, scholars say
According to a 1970 article, 200,000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors. A new law in Poland could make it difficult to publish these findings today
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Memorial in Jedwabne, Poland dedicated to Jews who were murdered here on July 10, 1941. (Fczarnowski, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
August 16, 2017, 6:56 pm
Polish historian seeks exhumation of Jews murdered by neighbors in WWII
Krzysztof Krasowski wants to determine if Germans behind Jedwabne massacre, which Princeton professor said was perpetrated by Poles
By JTA
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
Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, at a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, on October 8, 2015. (AP/Sergei Grits)
July 6, 2016, 10:09 pm
Belarusian Nobel winner accuses Poles of persecuting Jews in Holocaust
Claims over Polish actions in WWII hits a nerve, as country seeks to distance itself from an anti-Semitic past
By JTA
Polish author Jan Tomasz Gross, author of the 2001 book, 'Neighbors,' about the murder of Jedwabne's Jewish community by Polish neighbors. (East News)
April 14, 2016, 2:44 am
Holocaust scholar who said Poles killed Jews grilled by police
Historian Jan Tomasz Gross could be jailed for ‘insulting nation’ after making claim that Poles were not innocent during World War II
By AP
Sebastiaan Rejak, Poland's special envoy for relations with the Jewish Diaspora (Courtesy)
March 29, 2016, 8:44 pm
Poland’s envoy to world Jewry fights to keep Polish-Jewish history alive
At opening of new museum to Polish rescuers of Jews in WWII, Sebastian Rejak says his country is working to show nuance of Nazi-occupied Poland to the next generation
By Sheldon Kirshner
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
Poland-born Jewish American historian Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to Polish media on August 28, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
February 20, 2016, 5:40 am
Scholar says Poland’s Holocaust policies a step toward ‘dark ages’
President may strip Jan Tomasz Gross of Order of Merit for saying new right-wing government moving Poland back into anti-Semitism
By Vanessa Gera
Poland-born Jewish American historian Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to Polish media on August 28, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
February 18, 2016, 6:30 am
Poland’s threat to strip scholar of state honor sparks anger
Polish-American Jewish historian Jan Tomasz Gross drew Warsaw’s ire by shedding light on WWII Polish murders of Jews
By Vanessa Gera
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