Poland Holocaust

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

Prime Minister of Poland 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

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