Poland Holocaust

Illustrative: German soldiers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland, September 1939. (AP Photo)

October 5, 2019, 8:13 am

Wikipedia page on Warsaw death camp where 200,000 were killed was 15-year fake

Haaretz shows online encyclopedia since 2004 hosted false entry on Nazi camp complete with gas chambers where Poles were murdered; untrue claims made way onto other Wikipedia pages

By TOI staff

Renia Spiegel smiling in her southern Polish town of Przemysl at the age of 18 in 1942 (FAMILY HANDOUT / ARCHIVE ELIZABETH BELLAK / AFP)

September 30, 2019, 6:24 pm

Teen diarist Renia Spiegel, ‘Poland’s Anne Frank’, gets her due after 80 years

Now being translated into 15 languages, journal describes conditions in Nazi-occupied Przemysl until 18-year-old’s death in 1942, which was recorded by her boyfriend in final entry

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Illustrative: A view of Tarnow, Poland (YouTube screenshot)

September 8, 2019, 2:33 pm

Jewish woman says Polish church stole her family’s land after Holocaust

Polish government helping parish fight Australian Ann Drillich after years in courts; she claims neighbor who saved her mother from Nazis betrayed family, gave away their land

By TOI staff

In this file photo taken on September 6, 1939, Germans tanks cross a river into Polish territory. Nazi forces invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Berlin two days later. Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under a secret pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later. (AFP)

August 28, 2019, 6:31 pm

Feeling its WWII wounds, Poland seeks German reparations 80 years on

There are living Poles ‘who experienced the same suffering as the Jewish nation,’ contends right-wing lawmaker as Warsaw pushes for victimhood recognition

By Stanislaw Waszak and Mathieu FOULKES

Kazimierz Albin. (Auschwitz Memorial/Twitter)

July 23, 2019, 7:33 pm

Kazimierz Albin, early Auschwitz prisoner, dies at 96

Last survivor from first convoy of prisoners sent to Nazi death camp went on to become an engineer and serve on PM advisory board that looked after Holocaust memorial

By AFP

Far right demonstrators protest against the US Senate's 447 Holocaust Restitution bill, in Warsaw on May 11, 2019. (Photo by Alik KEPLICZ / AFP)

May 13, 2019, 7:49 am

Poland cancels Israeli officials’ trip over Holocaust property restitution row

Warsaw says composition of delegation set to visit from Jerusalem suggested talks would focus on restoring Jewish assets

By TOI staff and AFP

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)

From the WebApril 18, 2019, 10:33 pm

100 families to celebrate seder in Warsaw Ghetto for first time since 1943

Historic Passover meal to be held on the 76th anniversary of WWII uprising, the Jewish News reports

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP/Michael Sohn)

February 19, 2019, 1:59 pm

Poland seeks Israeli apology for ‘racist’ remarks

Official says relations could ‘take a frosty turn’ if Jerusalem doesn’t apologize for acting FM’s claim that ‘Poles suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk’

By Agencies

Polish President Andrzej Duda ,left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk after a group photo at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, February 13, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

February 18, 2019, 11:40 pm

Fresh fight over Holocaust memory threatens warming Israel-Poland ties

Harsh words from acting FM Israel Katz deepen diplomatic rift, leading to cancelation of four-nation summit in Jerusalem and risking severe damage to relations

By Sam Sokol

Polish author Jan Tomasz Gross, author of the 2001 book, 'Neighbors,' about the murder of Jedwabne's Jewish community by Polish neighbors. (East News)

February 18, 2019, 10:02 pm

Right-wing groups in Poland say Holocaust conference anti-Polish

Researchers attending event write about Polish persecution of Jews in World War II; protesters call them ‘xenophic’ and ‘unreliable’

By Katarzyna Markusz

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a news conference with Polish Foreign Affairs Minister at Lazienki Palace, during his visit to Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

February 14, 2019, 5:08 am

In Warsaw, Pompeo urges Poland to pass Holocaust restitution law

Poland is the only EU member without comprehensive legislation to return, or provide compensation for, private property confiscated by the Nazis

By JTA

Survivors of Auschwitz, at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, walk to place candles on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland, January 27, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

February 3, 2019, 12:04 am

Poland’s political divide widens more after mayor is slain

Country sees surge in talk of a ‘Polish-Polish war’; spike in anti-Semitic rhetoric after the passage of contested Holocaust speech law

By Vanessa Gera

January 24, 2019, 8:44 am

Poland’s main Jewish umbrella group elects first woman leader

Monika Krawczyk says her appointment is historic, calls restitution process her top priority but promises reforms in the future

By Katarzyna Markusz

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

Polish President Andrzej Duda lights the menorah celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

December 10, 2018, 12:25 pm

Poland’s president, Jewish leaders light Hanukkah candles at palace

Andrzej Duda says he is happy to be with a ‘community of people who jointly build up Polish society’

By TOI staff and Agencies