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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Poland Holocaust

Jesse Eisenberg arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
March 8, 2025, 3:26 pm
Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar
At NY ceremony, actor, screenwriter and director tells Polish president it’s the ‘honor of a lifetime’; movie ‘A Real Pain’ tells story of 2 cousins exploring family’s Holocaust history
By Shira Li Bartov
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
Sisters Dana Modan, left, and Rutu Modan, whose first joint film, 'The Property,' reached Israeli theaters on December 7, 2024 (Courtesy)
December 14, 2024, 12:19 pm
In 1st-ever film made by sisters, Dana and Rutu Modan bring family story to silver screen
In Israeli theaters now, ‘The Property’ is based on Rutu’s graphic novel of the same name, inspired by their father’s roots in pre-WWII Poland
By Jessica Steinberg
Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
A woman passes the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 7, 2024, 11:09 am
Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust and are now just a few thousand
By Shira Li Bartov
An illustrative photo of electric fences with concrete posts and insulators surrounding the barracks where deportees where held at the Auschwitz concentration and death camp established by the Nazis. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
New memorials honor hundreds of Jews murdered at little-known Nazi labor camp in Poland
Relatives of Holocaust survivors joined by Israeli and US envoys to mark unveiling of site at Adampol, where Jews were used as slave labor and massacred
By Vanessa Gera
Shalom Korai poses for a picture with members of his extended family just after he met them in person for the first time on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in North Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
July 12, 2024, 6:37 am
Holocaust survivor who never met any family finds cousins through DNA testing
Saved from the streets of Warsaw in 1943, Shalom Korai had long accepted that he had no relatives, until a sample submitted to MyHeritage matched that of a woman in South Carolina
By Jeffrey Collins
In 'Irena's Vow,' Irena Gut (Sophie Nélisse) crouches in front of the grill covering the entrance to the basement of a German officer's home in Tarnopol, Poland where she hides 12 Jews (Quiver Distribution)
April 15, 2024, 12:37 pm
How 12 Jews survived the Holocaust hidden by a maid in a Nazi officer’s basement
Film ‘Irena’s Vow,’ opening in the US on April 15, tells the true story of faith and humanity that led a young Polish woman to risk her life to save the lives of others
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Daniel Lombroso, second from right, with his grandmother Nina Gottlieb, center, on the set of 'Nina & Irena.' (Courtesy of Lombroso via JTA)
November 25, 2023, 1:24 am
In ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust
80 years on, documentary filmmaker Daniel Lombroso captures survivor Nina Gottlieb’s experience in war-torn Poland, where she lost 25 family members, including her sister
By Linda Buchwald
File: The name of the Wiktoria i Jozef Ulma is seen on the wall commemorating Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the opening ceremony of The Ulma Family Museum Of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa, Poland, March 17, 2014. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 7:54 pm
Beatification of righteous Poles helping leaders downplay Holocaust role — experts
Historians warn Warsaw using celebration of family who died rescuing Jews to prop up image and ignore collaboration with Nazis
By Bernard OSSER
Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski stands at the podium for a planned lecture as far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun of Poland’s Confederation party grabs the microphone and smashes it, at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Jan Grabowski via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 1:19 am
Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium
Politician, protesters disrupt speech in Warsaw by historian Jan Grabowski, a vocal critic of Poland’s efforts to constrain Holocaust discussion
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Wikipedia page about the Holocaust in Poland. (JTA illustration)
May 23, 2023, 3:10 am
Wikipedia bans editors but sidesteps broader action in Holocaust distortion row
Online encyclopedia bars 3 editors from working on articles related to Holocaust in Poland, but avoids stance on underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Professor Barbara Engelking, June 20, 2018. (Wikipedia/Adrian Grycuk; CC BY-SA 3.0 pl)
April 23, 2023, 8:38 pm
Polish regulator probes TV channel after academic argued Poles ‘failed’ Jews in WWII
Prominent Holocaust scholar Barbara Engelking told TVN that Jewish Poles felt betrayed by their compatriots, and accused modern Warsaw of ‘falsifying history’
By Michael Bachner
An academic paper found that a dedicated group has for some 15 years manipulated Wikipedia in ways that lay blame for the Holocaust on Jews and absolve Poland of almost any responsibility for its record of antisemitism. (JTA illustration)
March 2, 2023, 6:56 pm
Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust articles
For the first time in its nearly 20 years, the online encyclopedia’s arbitration committee voluntarily takes up a case amid claims some editors are whitewashing Polish history
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Negatives of photos taken by Polish firefighter Z. L. Grzywaczewski in 1943 (Maciek Jazwiecki/Polin Museum)
January 17, 2023, 9:51 am
21 never-published photos of Warsaw Ghetto Revolt’s aftermath found in Poland attic
Uncovered in dusty boxes, pictures were taken clandestinely by a Polish firefighter in 1943 as he protected Aryan Warsaw from flames engulfing the ghetto
By Matt Lebovic
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