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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Poland

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
January 17, 2025, 7:47 pm
Visiting Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer decries ‘poison of antisemitism rising around the world’
British PM says trip to concentration camp enabled him to see more clearly how the industrial-level killing was ‘a collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people’
By AP and ToI Staff
Poland's President Andrzej Duda (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
January 9, 2025, 5:39 pm
Poland says it will not arrest Netanyahu for ICC should he attend Auschwitz memorial
Polish government promises free and safe participation for Israelis after PM’s aide says no plans to attend events marking 80 years since liberation, citing war crimes warrant
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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
David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) take a train to Majdanek while on a tour of Poland in 'A Real Pain.' (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures via JTA)
November 6, 2024, 2:51 am
In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg connects on- and offscreen with his ancestors’ Poland
Now in theaters, the latest film from the Jewish writer, director and actor features a semi-autobiographical heritage tour full of pathos, banter and fast-paced humor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 8, 2024, 10:41 am
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz
Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women
By Matt Lebovic
Amber crucifixes and golden jewelry that were confiscated by Nazi Germans from Stanislawa Wasilewska and returned to relatives in a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2024, 8:27 am
Jewelry seized from Poles in Nazi concentration camps returned to families
Germany’s Arolsen Archives hands over Stanislawa Wasilewska’s bracelet, watch and crucifixes to her grandson and great-granddaughter at an emotional ceremony in Warsaw
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
A Catholic priest conducts a funeral service for remains of over 700 victims of German crimes of the World War II, discovered in the so-called Valley of Death, at the Minor Basilica of the Holy Trinity of St. John the Baptist in Chojnice, Poland, on September 2, 2024. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
September 2, 2024, 5:51 pm
Poland holds state burial for over 700 World War II victims of Nazi Germany
Teachers, priests, police officers, forestry and postal workers, and landowners were among hundreds massacred in Chojnice in early 1945
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, September 1, 2024. (Wojciech Strozyk/AP)
September 1, 2024, 1:33 pm
Now fearing Russia, Poland marks 85 years since German invasion of World War II
Prime Minister Tusk says best lesson to learn from WWII is for West to unite against ‘aggression’ on battlefields of Ukraine, not just speak of ‘reconciliation’
By AP
A woman walks amid vehicles next to a billboard of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at the Valise square in Tehran, August 1, 2024. (AFP)
August 2, 2024, 9:14 pm
France urges citizens to leave Iran ‘as soon as possible’
Paris issues warning as Tehran and proxies vow revenge for Shukr, Haniyeh killings; Poland tells nationals it may be increasingly hard to leave Israel, Lebanon, Iran
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A wristwatch and a pair of earrings belonging to deceased Stanislawa Mordes are seen on June 11, 2024, in Warsaw, during a ceremony of returning the personal effects to the families of two Polish victims killed following the Warsaw Uprising from 1944. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
June 11, 2024, 11:45 pm
Germany returns items to descendants of Poles killed at Nazi camps
Arolsen Archives hands over watch, earring, brooch and powder compact as part of efforts to retrace the fate of Third Reich’s 17.5 million victims
By AFP
Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)
June 10, 2024, 2:22 pm
Far-right Polish politician who doused Hanukkah candles wins EU Parliament seat
Grzegorz Braun elected for Confederation party, which has its best-ever results in European Union elections amid sway to the right
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
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