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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Jews in Poland

Free food pantry at JCC Krakow for Ukrainian refugees in 2022. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 5:35 pm
With a world weary of war, donations dry up for Ukrainian refugees at JCC Krakow
Jewish Community Center in city adjacent to Auschwitz raised $12m for Ukrainian refugees since 2022. But as money runs out, the new residents may lose yet another port in their storm
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up
Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says
By Shira Li Bartov
Lior Ashkenazi as 'Sol' in episode one of Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones.' (Vlad Cioplea/Hulu)
March 27, 2024, 4:03 pm
‘How many miracles can we get?’: Holocaust saga comes to life in new Hulu miniseries
Stars Joey King and Logan Lerman are joined by many Israeli cast members, including Lior Ashkenazi, Hadas Yaron and Michael Aloni, in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones,’ set in WWII Poland
By Amy Spiro
This undated photo shows Polish farmer Jozef Ulma with his wife Wiktoria. The Ulmas were killed with their seven children by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews during World War II. (Mateusz Szpytma, Deputy head of Poland's IPN history institute via AP)
September 10, 2023, 11:56 am
In first, Vatican beatifies Polish family of 9 executed by Nazis for sheltering Jews
Mass held in honor of the Ulmas, who were killed along with 8 Jews they were hiding; experts have warned Warsaw could use recognition to downplay Poles’ role in Holocaust
By Agencies
File: The name of the Wiktoria i Jozef Ulma is seen on the wall commemorating Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the opening ceremony of The Ulma Family Museum Of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa, Poland, March 17, 2014. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 7:54 pm
Beatification of righteous Poles helping leaders downplay Holocaust role — experts
Historians warn Warsaw using celebration of family who died rescuing Jews to prop up image and ignore collaboration with Nazis
By Bernard OSSER
Unit of Poland's underground resistance to German occupation, the Home Army. (Public domain)
July 22, 2023, 8:30 am
‘Jews in the Garden’ uproots Poland’s homegrown Holocaust perpetrators
In her new book, investigative journalist Judy Rakowsky unearths the well-concealed fate of relatives murdered by their countrymen while in hiding from the Nazis
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: A view of the Górki Czechowskie park in Lublin, Poland. (Park na Górkach Czechowskich)
May 21, 2023, 11:26 pm
World War II-era mass grave discovered in Lublin, Poland
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says he does not know whether the bodies are those of Jews
By ToI Staff
Graffiti found in Warsaw reads "Morawiecki is Chabad Lubavitch," referring to the country's non-Jewish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavich movement. (Courtesy of Czulent via JTA)
April 25, 2023, 4:08 am
Jewish group’s report finds rise in antisemitic incidents in Poland
First survey of its kind counts 488 anti-Jewish acts in Poland in 2022, more than 4 times the total cited by the European Union the previous year
By Dinah Spritzer
Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 17, 2023, 12:06 pm
‘Burning all around’: Warsaw Ghetto survivors recall uprising 80 years on
Nazis confined up to 450,000 Jews in area of just over 3 square kilometers; in April 1943 hundreds of Jewish fighters rose up, preferring to die fighting than in gas chambers
By Bernard OSSER and Michael Blum
Polish Yiddish singer-songwriter Maria Ka in concert. (Iwona Wojdowska)
April 12, 2023, 3:52 am
After unmuting her hidden Jewish roots, Polish singer amplifies them in Yiddish punk
On a new album dropping on April 20 to mark the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Maria Ka takes cues from electronica for songs inspired by feminism and anti-establishmentarianism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An item found under a Lodz apartment building, January 3, 2022. (Facebook/Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Łódz; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 8, 2023, 10:43 pm
Menorahs and tableware hidden from Nazis: Polish builders uncover Jewish WWII trove
Glass cosmetic containers, cigarette holders and hundreds of other items found under Lodz building; local Jewish community lit a restored menorah on Hanukkah
By AP and ToI Staff
Mural in Patras, Greece, by KLE, showing the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust (courtesy)
December 9, 2022, 10:30 pm
Street mural project honors unknown ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in their homelands
With first installations completed in Greece and Portugal, an international initiative celebrates Holocaust rescuers and educates on antisemitism
By Matt Lebovic
'Dreamworld' cape designed for volunteers with 'Stewardesses of Peace' on the Poland-Ukraine border. Joint project of RISK Made in Warsaw and artist-activist Jana Szostak. (Courtesy of RISK Made in Warsaw)
March 13, 2022, 7:50 am
These heroes wear capes: Warsaw label decks out volunteers aiding Ukrainian refugees
To make helpers easily identifiable on the border, RISK Made in Warsaw’s Antonina Samecka and Klara Kowtun team up with artist-activist to design meaningful uniforms
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Volunteers work together at a Jewish community crisis center in Warsaw. (Toby Axelrod)
March 7, 2022, 4:32 pm
Inside the Jewish response to the mounting Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland
With buses, temporary shelters and lots of phone calls, growing number of Jewish locals and groups join efforts to help countless masses fleeing savage fighting in Ukraine
By Toby Axelrod
Jaroslaw Nowak, the Polish government's envoy for Jewish relations, was fired after calling a Holocaust speech law passed by his country's ruling party as 'stupid.' (video screenshot)
January 10, 2022, 3:19 pm
Polish envoy to Jews fired after calling Holocaust law ‘one of stupidest ever’
Jaroslaw Nowak criticized his own government’s policies on Holocaust remembrance in an interview with UK’s Jewish News
By AP
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