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A Polish flag displayed in front of a former crematorium oven at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, January 20, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
January 25, 2020, 4:16 am
Poland pushes for Nazi camp in Austria to be remembered
Warsaw charges that Gusen camp, a satellite of Mauthausen complex, is neglected by Austrian authorities; some 35,800 detainees, many Polish, died there
By Celine JANKOWIAK and Blaise GAUQUELIN
Polish author Jan Tomasz Gross, author of the 2001 book, 'Neighbors,' about the murder of Jedwabne's Jewish community by Polish neighbors. (East News)
November 26, 2019, 10:05 pm
Polish prosecutors drop defamation case against Holocaust scholar
Jan Tomasz Gross was accused of insulting the Polish nation for claiming Poles killed more Jews during World War II than they killed Nazis
By Agencies and TOI staff
Dr. Kristine Keren (center) holds replica of her green sweater from the Holocaust made from knitting pattern created by Dr. Lea Stern (left). Keren's husband Marion is at right. (Julia Grossman)
October 22, 2019, 11:17 am
Knitters worldwide recreate sweater worn by girl who survived Holocaust in sewer
Washington anesthesiologist and expert knitter Lea Stern ‘reverse engineers’ pattern of fragile artifact in hidden children collection at US Holocaust Memorial Museum
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: German soldiers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland, September 1939. (AP Photo)
October 5, 2019, 8:13 am
Wikipedia page on Warsaw death camp where 200,000 were killed was 15-year fake
Haaretz shows online encyclopedia since 2004 hosted false entry on Nazi camp complete with gas chambers where Poles were murdered; untrue claims made way onto other Wikipedia pages
By TOI staff
Renia Spiegel smiling in her southern Polish town of Przemysl at the age of 18 in 1942 (FAMILY HANDOUT / ARCHIVE ELIZABETH BELLAK / AFP)
September 30, 2019, 6:24 pm
Teen diarist Renia Spiegel, ‘Poland’s Anne Frank’, gets her due after 80 years
Now being translated into 15 languages, journal describes conditions in Nazi-occupied Przemysl until 18-year-old’s death in 1942, which was recorded by her boyfriend in final entry
By Anna Maria Jakubek
Illustrative: A view of Tarnow, Poland (YouTube screenshot)
September 8, 2019, 2:33 pm
Jewish woman says Polish church stole her family’s land after Holocaust
Polish government helping parish fight Australian Ann Drillich after years in courts; she claims neighbor who saved her mother from Nazis betrayed family, gave away their land
By TOI staff
In this file photo taken on September 6, 1939, Germans tanks cross a river into Polish territory. Nazi forces invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Berlin two days later. Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under a secret pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later. (AFP)
August 28, 2019, 6:31 pm
Feeling its WWII wounds, Poland seeks German reparations 80 years on
There are living Poles ‘who experienced the same suffering as the Jewish nation,’ contends right-wing lawmaker as Warsaw pushes for victimhood recognition
By Stanislaw Waszak and Mathieu FOULKES
Kazimierz Albin. (Auschwitz Memorial/Twitter)
July 23, 2019, 7:33 pm
Kazimierz Albin, early Auschwitz prisoner, dies at 96
Last survivor from first convoy of prisoners sent to Nazi death camp went on to become an engineer and serve on PM advisory board that looked after Holocaust memorial
By AFP
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
Polish Prime Minister 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
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