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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Lublin

Katarzyna and Artur Goławski, co-managers of the Kuzmiuk Bakery, hold their signature cebularz, once called pletzel by Lublin's Yiddish-speaking Jews. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
August 27, 2024, 3:39 pm
Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis
Before 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered, the Kuźmiuk Bakery brought customers from near and far; the descendants of the family who took over only learned of its origins in 2017
By Shira Li Bartov
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
A view of Lublin, Poland. (YouTube screenshot)
August 12, 2023, 5:50 am
Thousands evacuated after builder uncovers a WWII bomb in a Polish town
Some 14,000 moved out in Lublin to allow military experts to take away unexploded ordnance
By AP
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
The Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland, was one of the largest yeshivas in the world before it was rendered defunct by the Nazi in 1939. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 28, 2020, 11:30 pm
Jewish hotel in Poland offers free rooms to doctors fighting virus
Lublin’s Hotel Ilan, once home to one of the largest yeshivas in the world, will also throw in free breakfast for medical professionals who don’t want to expose family to pathogen
By JTA and ToI Staff
Totko Teklak, gesturing, shows a visitor from Israel where his father hid her mother during the Holocaust in eastern Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)
December 22, 2018, 8:56 am
Israeli whose uncle was killed by Poles honors her mother’s rescuer
Relatives of Antek Teklak receive a certificate from Yad Vashem recognizing him as a Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Jewish woman
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of Lublin, Poland. (YouTube screenshot)
September 7, 2018, 5:53 pm
After many fakes, Polish city Lublin sees first real Jewish wedding in decades
According to local TV, the marriage of Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern and Anastasiia Simferovska, two academics with Ukrainian roots, is ‘probably the first after Holocaust’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland. (CC BY-SA 2.5, Krzysztof Schabowicz, WIkipeda)
June 28, 2017, 5:34 pm
Muslim girls in Poland studying Holocaust turned away from synagogue
Group says they were harassed by residents of Lublin, refused entry to house of worship because of head coverings
By JTA
The Jewish community celebrates Hannukah at the Shaare Tzedek Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados in December 2014. (Courtesy)
December 4, 2015, 9:19 pm
Barbados, a centuries-old Jewish haven for relaxation — and refuge
Celebrating its independence this week, the Caribbean island has a storied Jewish history spanning from the Inquisition to the Holocaust
By Ze'ev Portner
Fragment of a ceramic cup excavated at the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, with an image of Mickey Mouse. The artifact was unearthed by archeologists Wojtek Mazurek and Yoram Haimi in 2014 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel).
December 4, 2014, 1:44 pm
Is Sobibor to be the new ‘Disneyland’ of Nazi death camps?
Without a fence or a guard, Polish visitors walk their pets and ride bikes while crunching human bones lying exposed on the grounds
By Matt Lebovic
Yaakov Weksler-Waszkinel shows off his new Israeli identity card at his home in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand/The Times of Israel)
September 16, 2014, 4:12 pm
When the Law of Return does not apply to a Holocaust survivor
Yaakov Weksler-Waszkinel, a Jewish-born, former Catholic priest, is denied automatic Israeli citizenship due to syncretic beliefs
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Lviv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons/Lestat/Jan Mehlich/CC BY-SA 2.5)
June 8, 2014, 11:28 pm
Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found
Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown
By JTA
Minorities and advocacy groups in the Polish city of Lublin have objected to the way African immigrants and Jews were depicted on tickets for public transportation. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Lublin)
December 5, 2012, 8:09 pm
Poles call off unintentionally racist, anti-Semitic tolerance campaign
Critics claim tickets for public transportation in Lublin — intended to promote co-existence — instead propagate hostile stereotypes
By Nissan Tzur
Shoshana Golan, left, a Holocaust survivor who changed her name from Rozia Beiman, reunites in New York with Wladyslawa Dudziak, a Pole who passed her off as a family member during the Holocaust. (Chavie Lieber/JTA)
December 2, 2012, 10:59 pm
Nearly 70 years on, Holocaust survivor reunites with ‘Righteous’ rescuer
At 85, Polish woman takes her first flight to meet the Jewish ‘cousin’ her parents hid from the Nazis
By Chavie Lieber
Lublin restaurateur Izabela Kozlowska says she's proud to maintain an Israeli and Jewish presence in the Polish city, even though her own background is Catholic. (Photo credit: Nissan Tsur)
October 7, 2012, 5:21 am
In the former ‘Jerusalem of Poland,’ a Catholic couple spreads a passion for Israeli hummus
Restaurateurs Izabela and Kamil Kozlowska serve an array of Jewish specialties at their remarkable eatery — and require waiters to greet visitors with ‘shalom’
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