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Rabbi Dawid Szychowski telling journalists about the Festival of Tranquility that he launched in Lodz, Poland, on June 8, 2019. (Courtesy Shvei Israel/via JTA)
June 13, 2019, 11:23 am
Polish city of Lodz has first Jewish festival in decades
Historically one of Poland’s most vibrant Jewish communities, the city was emptied of Jews during the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish activist Sławomir Dul hangs an effigy of late communist politician Jakub Berman, captioned 'Jew,' in Lodz on April 30. 2019 (Screencapture/Youtube)
May 2, 2019, 1:46 am
Effigy of late Polish Jewish communist hung on gallows at former Lodz Ghetto
‘I did it, I hung a Jew,’ shouts Polish activist Sławomir Dul after putting up display featuring late communist politician Jakub Berman, captioned ‘Jew’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A tweet posted by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about mass deportations carried out by Soviets against Ukrainians with a photo of Jews being deported by Nazis. (Screen capture: Twitter)
October 24, 2017, 11:43 pm
Ukrainian president mistakenly tweets photo of Jews deported by Nazis
In apparent gaffe, image of Lodz ghetto residents en route to Chelmno death camp included in post on deportations of Ukrainians by Soviets
By JTA
Poland's Culture Minister Piotr Glinski looks the marble bust of the antique goddess Diana during a ceremony of return at the Lazienki Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, December 18, 2015 (AP/Alik Keplicz)
December 4, 2016, 4:13 pm
Polish culture minister denies involvement in anti-Semitic event
Piotr Glinski’s office says he was not informed of discussion of book ‘The Jewish Political Lobby in Poland’; organizers say otherwise
By JTA
The Lodz Ghetto (CC-BY SA German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)
August 30, 2016, 6:33 am
EU allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum
Funds will be used to modernize building, construct multimedia model
By JTA
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
March 11, 2016, 3:02 am
Israeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world’s oldest man at 112
Newly uncovered Polish documents help Yisrael Kristal of Haifa receive Guinness stamp of approval
By TOI staff and AFP
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
January 23, 2016, 3:30 pm
Guinness confirms Israeli Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man
Yisrael Kristal of Haifa needs documentation that he was born on September 15, 1903, which could be a challenge
By AFP
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
January 22, 2016, 1:21 am
Haifa Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man
But Yisrael Kristal could have difficulties officially confirming his age
By JTA
Fredzia Marmur, a Holocaust survivor, was one of 60 refugees identified by the filmmakers of ‘Every Face Has a Name,’ a 2015 documentary based on 1945 newsreel footage from the Swedish port Malmo (courtesy: Menemsha Films)
December 29, 2015, 11:00 pm
Nazi refugees ‘tagged’ in liberation documentary
Seven decades after disembarking at a Swedish port, those who fled Hitler discover themselves in digitally enhanced rescue footage
By Matt Lebovic
100-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor Golda Kirshner. (Courtesy: Kirshner family)
November 10, 2015, 1:32 am
Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’
From Auschwitz to Canada, a son pays tribute to his Holocaust survivor parents, who endured so much over a century of living
By Sheldon Kirshner
Illustrative photo of a Torah scroll (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
November 7, 2015, 6:35 am
Polish city of Lodz receives first new Torah scroll since WWII
Donated by British Jewish philanthropists, scroll introduced in special ceremony in city’s synagogue
By JTA
The city of Lodz, Poland (CC-BY-SA Jakub Zasina/Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2015, 5:33 am
Lodz to have first Jewish kindergarten in decades
Polish city which housed one of Holocaust’s largest ghettos to open first class of 10 children in September
By JTA
This undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I in Poland. (photo credit: AP)
March 25, 2015, 9:24 pm
Mystery after list of Auschwitz inmates found in Polish library
Typewritten page, stained and with edges burnt, discovered some 120 miles from death camp
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Close-up of the tear coincidentally in the shape of the state of Israel, found on a drum made from a Torah scroll that was used by Hitler Youth. (Courtesy From the Depths)
February 11, 2015, 12:57 pm
Nazi drum made of Torah scroll brought to Israel
Drum found near Lodz, Poland at an estate sale has a repaired tear coincidentally in the shape of the map of Israel
By JTA
Illustrative photo of Lodz Ghetto residents, who head toward the trains that will take them to Chelmno extermination camp, in Poland (photo credit: unknown)
September 4, 2014, 12:25 am
Amulet created by son for mother in Lodz ghetto recovered
Item expressing family love found amid ruins, donated by Polish man’s heirs to Israeli Holocaust institution
By JTA
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