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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. A Holocaust survivor slammed Poland's right-wing government for failing to condemn these groups. (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
Ben Sales’ great-grandfather, Abba Sales, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in 1921. His parents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Ben Sales)
April 13, 2018, 4:31 am
My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it
A letter found folded into a Passover Hagaddah changes the family history we thought we always knew
By Ben Sales
A group of Panama youth visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz ahead of the yearly March of the Living, a Holocaust remembrance march, in Oswiecim, Poland on April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 12, 2018, 4:18 pm
Led by Israel’s President Rivlin, thousands attend March of Living in Poland
More than 12,000 people from 40 countries make two-mile march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, accompanied by heads of IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and police
By TOI staff
Poland's President Andrzej Duda gives a press conference on February 6, 2018, in Warsaw. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
March 14, 2018, 10:45 pm
New Polish holiday to honor Poles who saved Jews in WWII
Following controversial law to criminalize blaming Polish nation for Nazi Holocaust, new holiday seen as continuation of efforts to stress Polish heroism during World War II
By AP
European Council President Donald Tusk (C) arrives to attend a lunch during an informal meeting of the 27 EU heads of state or government at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on February 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ludovic MARIN)
February 23, 2018, 11:30 pm
EU president: Poland’s conduct on Holocaust risks ruining its global standing
Donald Tusk, a former Polish premier, warns Warsaw against 'anti-Semitic excesses' that hurt country's reputation
By AFP and TOI staff
Waldemar Bonkowski (Facebook photo)
February 23, 2018, 4:45 pm
Polish senator suspended for klezmer-themed video of Nazi violence to Jews
Waldemar Bonkowski's Facebook post comes amid rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric in Poland over Holocaust law
By JTA
Swastikas drawn on the gate of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, found on February 18, 2018. (Israel Police)
February 19, 2018, 9:24 am
Poland demands answers over swastikas at embassy — report
Police investigating anti-Polish slurs scrawled on gates of compound, as Jerusalem and Warsaw continue to trade diplomatic blows
By TOI staff
Lighting menorahs earlier this week in Krakow, Poland. (Shavei Israel)
February 13, 2018, 10:47 pm
Who will safeguard Polish history? Poles will
Despite the law against blaming Poles for the Holocaust, local historians will keep telling the truth in all its complexity
By David I. Bernstein
The ceiling of the Progressive Synagogue in Krakow.
February 12, 2018, 6:37 am
Poland of lead and of gold
'The souls of Jew and Gentile floated up in lightness to somewhere under the synagogue ceiling...'
By Erik Ross
February 11, 2018, 7:01 am
The Polish nun who made a choice
The Germans would have killed Sister Edith if they had discovered she was harboring a Jew
By Raymond M. Berger
Far-right groups hold a demonstration in front of the presidential palace to call on President Andrzej Duda to sign a bill that would limit some forms of Holocaust speech in Warsaw, Poland, February 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 11, 2018, 1:25 am
Poland’s ‘enemies’ trying to fan anti-Semitism, says ruling party boss
Jaroslaw Kaczynski says country must fight anti-Semitism in wake of controversy over Holocaust law; 'we must reject it resolutely'
By AFP
Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 8, 2018, 5:08 pm
Complicity of Poles in the deaths of Jews is highly underestimated, scholars say
According to a 1970 article, 200,000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors. A new law in Poland could make it difficult to publish these findings today
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shake hands during their meeting at Belvedere Palace in Warsaw, January 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Wojtek Radwanski)
February 6, 2018, 10:48 pm
US ‘disappointed’ by authorization of Holocaust law in Poland
Echoing Israeli criticism, Tillerson says enacting legislation would 'adversely affect freedom of speech and academic inquiry'
By Agencies and TOI staff
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