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Polish President Andrzej Duda lights the menorah celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 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
Illustrative: A black cab drives past London's Westminster Bridge, March 23, 2017 (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
November 15, 2018, 6:49 am
London Jewish cab owners donate taxis to Holocaust rescuers in Poland
Iconic black vehicles will be used in initiative to help chauffeur elderly Poles who risked their lives to save Jews
By JTA
Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, stands in front of the former hospital that will house the museum which is under creation and scheduled to open in 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
October 19, 2018, 11:36 pm
Poland hands over site of future Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Involvement of the government has made some critics and Jews fear officials may try to distort history
By Vanessa Gera
Image posted to Instagram and later deleted showing three youngsters performing a salute at Auschwitz, October 2018 (via Instagram)
October 10, 2018, 7:44 pm
Polish teens probed over photo of Nazi salute at Auschwitz
Museum spokesman says incident shows importance of education, months after spat between Israel and Poland over the latter’s Holocaust law
By JTA and TOI staff
Jan Grabowski, a researcher at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 14, 2018, 11:47 am
Warsaw prosecutor won’t investigate anti-Semitic letter to historians
Staff at Polish Center for Holocaust Research says decision ‘sheds more light on today’s Poland than the original anonymous letter’
By Katarzyna Markusz
Yoram Sztykgold examines the unpublished registry from 1939 that helped him locate his family’s assets at a military library in Warsaw, Sept. 4, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 8, 2018, 1:37 am
A 1939 phone book could be key to unlocking Polish Holocaust restitution money
Holocaust survivors and their descendants can now prove ownership of properties seized during WWII, allowing them to open claims for compensation for the loss of their assets
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)
August 21, 2018, 1:58 pm
US deports 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard to Germany
Jakiw Palij, who gained entry to America using false information, has admitted to serving at the Trawniki concentration site but denies committing war crimes
By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a gift from the Ze'ev Jabotinsky Institute during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, July 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / ABIR SULTAN)
July 8, 2018, 1:59 pm
Amid criticism of Poland Holocaust deal, PM says he’ll ‘listen to historians’
Netanyahu defends controversial joint statement with Warsaw; says ‘goal has been achieved’ since clauses of law that deterred free research on Holocaust have been abolished
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)
June 27, 2018, 2:21 pm
Poland amends controversial Holocaust law, nixing penalties
World Jewish Congress says criminalization was an ‘egregious mistake,’ calls for further examination of ‘inherently flawed’ legislation
By TOI staff and Agencies
A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)
June 27, 2018, 11:12 am
Poland set to amend controversial Holocaust law, nixing penalties
Prime minister says legislation, which Israel fiercely objects to, may not be serving purpose of ‘defending the good name’ of the country
By TOI staff and Agencies
Amit Hirsch, right, recites the mourner's prayer at what used to be the Jewish cemetery in Turobin, Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)
May 27, 2018, 3:25 pm
Who killed a Polish Holocaust hero? His family may be close to finding out
Long-forgotten testimony by the victim’s sister — the family’s sole survivor — may help solve the decades-old mystery behind the murder of Sobibor escapee Josef Kopf
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski poses during a photocall for the film 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)' at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 11, 2018. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
May 12, 2018, 9:14 am
Polish director of Holocaust film says he’s been blacklisted by government
Pawel Pawlikowski states his Oscar-winning movie ‘Ida’ now banned in wake of law barring blaming Poles for Nazi crimes
By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS
The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz,center, addresses a rally he organized in protest against a recent gathering by far-right groups in this Baltic coast city, in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)
April 22, 2018, 12:11 am
Holocaust survivor warns Polish leaders over neo-Nazi groups
1,500 people gather in Gdansk to protest against rally by far-right extremists amid concerns the Polish government tolerates them
By AP and TOI staff
Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marian Kalwary, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2018, 2:27 am
75 years after fall of Warsaw ghetto, survivor worries about rising nationalism
Marian Kalwary says he sees a rise in modern Poland of the same ideas that drove Nazi Germany to start World War II and the Holocaust
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor, Krystyna Budnicka poses on April 16, 2018 in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
April 18, 2018, 5:53 am
75 years after Warsaw ghetto’s end, survivor recalls losing family in uprising
Krystyna Budnicka lost all seven siblings in the Holocaust; she made it out alive by hiding in an underground bunker and then in the Polish capital’s sewer system
By Bernard OSSER
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