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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Poland Holocaust

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
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
January 4, 2023, 12:59 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 4: Next on the docket, Attorney General v. the Government?
Jeremy Sharon dives into legal battles facing the Netanyahu coalition’s agenda; Judah Ari Gross on a new clampdown on immigration, and protests against changing the Law of Return
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 18, 2022, 4:22 pm
Poland maintains ban on armed guards for Israeli school groups
Warsaw says presence of security personnel creates impression Poland is unsafe; incident is latest in string of spats between the two countries in recent years
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jozef Walaszczyk, who died aged 102-years-old on June 20, 2022 and saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, January 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
June 22, 2022, 2:09 am
Polish man who rescued dozens of Jews during Holocaust dies at age 102
Józef Walaszczyk, member of Polish resistance, fell in love with Jewish woman, saved her and others by paying bribes, employing Jews in flour factory
By Agencies
Isidore Zuckerbrod (left) and Renata Szyfner at the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem on May 25, 2022. (Yad Vashem)
May 26, 2022, 2:55 pm
Son of Holocaust survivors reunites with daughter of rescuer at Yad Vashem
‘I wanted to fill in the blanks about my family’s history, that only they knew,’ says Isidore Zuckerbrod, whose parents hid in a Polish chicken coop belonging to the Szyfner family
By ToI Staff
Menachem Kaiser's nonfiction book 'Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure' was announced the 2022 winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
May 19, 2022, 10:16 am
Menachem Kaiser’s memoir on reclaiming his family’s Polish home wins Sami Rohr prize
In debut book, writer recounts efforts to regain ownership of house that belonged to his grandfather before the Holocaust
By Andrew Lapin
Jaroslaw Nowak, the Polish government's envoy for Jewish relations, was fired after calling a Holocaust speech law passed by his country's ruling party as 'stupid.' (video screenshot)
January 10, 2022, 3:19 pm
Polish envoy to Jews fired after calling Holocaust law ‘one of stupidest ever’
Jaroslaw Nowak criticized his own government’s policies on Holocaust remembrance in an interview with UK’s Jewish News
By AP
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