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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 puppet represents an Orthodox Jew, left, in a video of a nativity scene that the Museum of Krakow in Poland pulled offline in April 2023. (Museum of Krakow)
April 19, 2023, 11:31 am
Polish museum scraps Christian children’s show featuring threats to beat Jews
Museum of Krakow had been showing a nativity scene production that berated Jews for being ‘ashamed of the Messiah’
By Canaan Lidor
Holocaust survivor Halina Birenbaum, 93, prepares to leave for the March of the Living commemorative event in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, April 17, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
April 18, 2023, 12:05 pm
Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere
At 93, one of just a handful of living witnesses of the armed rebellion seeks to correct Jews’ understanding of bravery during the genocide
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Roger Waters poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Roger Waters Us + Them' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sepember 6, 2019. (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)
September 26, 2022, 8:25 pm
Polish city says it canceled Roger Waters concerts over his support for Russia
‘He doesn’t realize the truth,’ Krakow councilman says of the Pink Floyd co-founder who has blamed NATO and Ukraine; previous reports said Waters had canceled the gigs
By Vanessa Gera
Emergency chutes on a Wizz Air plane from Israel that was evacuated due to a bomb threat, Poland, July 23, 2022 (Screen grab/Ynet)
July 24, 2022, 8:14 am
Bomb threat on Israel-Poland flight prompts evacuation via emergency chutes
Plane lands in Krakow, is sent to isolated area before cabin crew tell passengers to leave plane via slides; second such incident within a week involving Wizz Air carrier
By ToI Staff
Ukrainian refugees wait at an absorption office at Krakow’s central train station. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
March 1, 2022, 10:02 am
In busy Krakow station, harried volunteers welcome Ukrainian refugees
Poles mobilize to absorb hundreds of thousands fleeing the Russian invasion of their eastern neighbor
By Lazar Berman
Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska (front) on a walking tour of the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. (Stan Baranski/FestivALT)
November 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp
Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site
By Amy Spiro
Customers at a Krakow market buy figurines of Hasidic Orthodox men. (Jason Francisco via JTA)
June 11, 2021, 5:22 pm
Krakow official: Good luck figurines of Jews are antisemitic, shouldn’t be sold
Statement follows campaign by Polish Jews to stop the sale of models; some locals treat figures as charms for increasing revenues, typically depicting Orthodox Jews counting money
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French-Polish director Roman Polanski stands on the red carpet of the 45th Deauville US Film Festival, in Deauville, northern France, September 7, 2019. (Lou Benoist/AFP)
May 31, 2021, 10:38 am
In new film, director Polanski revisits the horrors of his Holocaust boyhood
‘Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown’ follows Jewish filmmaker as he tours his hometown of Krakow with fellow survivor and photographer Ryszard Horowitz, whom he met in Warsaw Ghetto
By AFP
Vandals painted a swastika and anti-Semitic slur on one of the remaining walls of the former Krakow Ghetto on Oct. 1, 2019. (Courtesy of Jonathan Ornstein via JTA)
October 3, 2019, 5:36 am
Swastika, anti-Semitic slur painted on wall of former Krakow Ghetto
‘Whores Jews, get the f*** out of Poland’ daubed on wall on second day of Rosh Hashanah; police say no suspects
By Katarzyna Markusz
Worshippers locked out of Izaak Synagogue, Krakow, July 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rabbi Avi Baumol)
September 25, 2019, 11:34 pm
Rabbi evicted from Krakow synagogue must be allowed back, Polish court rules
Jewish community barred Chabad’s Eliezer Gurary from premises, claiming he and his congregants damaged site
By JTA
Armed guards posted in front of the Izaak Synagogue, Krakow, July 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rabbi Avi Baumol)
July 5, 2019, 3:01 am
A clash between Jews in Krakow highlights growing acceptance of Chabad in Europe
Pictures of a standoff between armed guards and Jewish worshippers in front of a locked synagogue shocked people abroad, but it’s only one side of a lengthy European power struggle
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Facebook cover photo for Hevre in Krakow shows that it's a trendy destination. (Hevre Cafe/Facebook via JTA)
June 15, 2019, 4:47 am
This former Krakow synagogue is now a bar, and Polish Jews are protesting
Demonstrators charge owners of Hevre Cafe with exploiting area’s Jewish heritage
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
May 28, 2019, 6:08 pm
2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep nude protest
Belarusians sentenced two years after they chained themselves together in front of camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign in protest of wars in Ukraine, Syria
By Vanessa Gera
The whites, grays and blacks that dominate Shulamit Kopf's collection, along with embedded pieces of copied letter from her mother's trove of saved correspondence (Courtesy Vadim Lidin)
May 2, 2019, 11:48 am
Piece by piece, a survivor’s daughter finds a trove of letters inspires art
A painter’s mother saved every piece of her family’s wartime correspondence. Now this treasure chest of revelations is set to be exhibited where she began her life, in Krakow
By Jessica Steinberg
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