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Banners reading 'I do not apologise for Jedwabne, let the perpetrators apologise' and 'Finish the exhumation, put an end to the slanders against Poles, the Jedwabne lie', with cut-out figures depicting Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and former Polish presidents are seen next to a crucifix set up at a gathering of far-right supporters who question the guilt of Polish citizens for the massacre in Jedwabne, on the sidelines of an official ceremony at the Jedwabne massacre monument honouring the memory of the town's Jewish residents murdered on July 10, 1941 by their Polish neighbours, in Jedwabne, north-eastern Poland, on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 10, 2026, 8:16 pm
Polish nationalists protest commemoration of Nazi-era Polish massacre of Jews
A thousand protesters, denying locals’ guilt, object to ceremony marking anniversary of 1941 Jedwabne massacre, when Polish farmers locked 300 Jews in a barn and set it on fire
By Katarzyna SKIBA
A Polish scout lights a candle in front of the monument of Treblinka World War II-era Nazi death camp on October 2, 2013 in Treblinka. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
June 27, 2026, 9:06 am
New Treblinka research uncovers forgotten role of women in 1943 death camp revolt
Apart from two female survivors, all testimony about Treblinka came from male inmates. In a new book, historian Chad S.A. Gibbs restores Jewish women’s overlooked place in camp resistance
By Matt Lebovic
Krystyna and Pawel Chiger (courtesy: Doron Keren)
April 14, 2026, 3:58 pm
How the sewers under Nazi-occupied Ukraine gave rise to unexpected Holocaust heroes
Ignacy Chiger died half a century ago, but his newly published war memoir raises complicated questions of Judenrat’s Jewish communal responsibility versus allegations of complicity
By Matt Lebovic
Director Yoav Potash (left) greets Yaacov Goldstein, one of the last Jewish survivors of Gniewoszów, Poland. (Courtesy of 8 Above via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 2:47 pm
Poland ‘investigates’ film about Jews killed after the Holocaust, may ban it
California filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors’ follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown — and it’s causing a far-right uproar
By Shira Li Bartov
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
February 24, 2026, 1:46 pm
UK premier visits Poland with family to trace wife’s Jewish roots
Victoria Starmer’s grandparents fled rising antisemitism before WWI; decades later, the family members who stayed were killed by the Nazis
By ToI Staff
The magical, black-and-white animation of 'Among Neighbors,' filmmaker Yoav Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)
December 8, 2025, 1:52 pm
Holocaust film ‘Among Neighbors’ causes uproar in Poland’s political right
Yoav Potash’s award-winning documentary about murderous Poles in the post-war period stirs nationalist outrage
By Jessica Steinberg
Rabbi Tanya Segal at 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025. (Courtesy of Marta Kalamar via JTA)
August 23, 2025, 12:32 pm
Rabbi evicted from Krakow home once owned by Jews murdered in Holocaust
Tanya Segal, Poland’s first female rabbi, loses her apartment in building featured in ‘Schindler’s List’ thanks to Poland’s lack of Holocaust restitution laws
By Toby Axelrod
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
By Shira Li Bartov
Protesters wave Palestinian flags and claim a genocide is unfolding in Gaza outside the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland on May 6, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 6, 2025, 10:07 pm
Pro-Palestinian activists assail Polish film fest over sponsor’s Israel investments
Even as anti-Israel groups call for a boycott due to sponsorship by BNP Paribas, Wrocław festival condemns ‘genocide’ in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Supporters of Poland's presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki hold Polish flags as they gather to attend a campaign rally in Warsaw on May 25, 2025, a week ahead of the second round of presidential elections. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
May 31, 2025, 1:42 pm
Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot
In Sunday’s crucial runoff election, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite the country’s role in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
Filmmaker Yoav Potash filming Aaron Friedman Tartakovksy, whose family came from Gniewoszów, Poland, the central element in 'Among Neighbors,' Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)
April 22, 2025, 10:56 am
Documentary digs up story of Polish village that butchered its Jews after Holocaust ended
It took filmmaker Yoav Potash 10 years to describe the events of once peacefully coexisting Gniewoszów, with the help of residents, survivors and a team of animators
By Jessica Steinberg
Jesse Eisenberg arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
March 8, 2025, 3:26 pm
Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar
At NY ceremony, actor, screenwriter and director tells Polish president it’s the ‘honor of a lifetime’; movie ‘A Real Pain’ tells story of 2 cousins exploring family’s Holocaust history
By Shira Li Bartov
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
A woman passes the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 7, 2024, 11:09 am
Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust and are now just a few thousand
By Shira Li Bartov
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