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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Poland

Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw's Mayor and member of ruling centrist Civic Coalition party, flashes a V for victory sign as he greets supporters as exit polls were announced on tv during their election night event at the the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
June 1, 2025, 11:56 pm
Liberal mayor, anti-EU Holocaust revisionist both claim victory in Poland election
Exit poll shows government-favored centrist Rafal Trzaskowski just ahead of right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki, who is backed by populist Law and Justice, but results could change
By Agencies
Supporters of Poland's presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki hold Polish flags as they gather to attend a campaign rally in Warsaw on May 25, 2025, a week ahead of the second round of presidential elections. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
May 31, 2025, 1:42 pm
Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot
In Sunday’s crucial runoff election, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite the country’s role in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: Students visit the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp site in Oświęcim, Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
April 1, 2025, 10:25 am
Israeli high schoolers stranded at Turkey airport for over 12 hours
Plane with 150 12th graders en route to Holocaust education tour of Poland forced to make emergency landing in Antalya, with replacement plane also faulty; they eventually take off
By ToI Staff
Visitors enter through the main gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (literally in English: "work makes (one) free") at the entrance to the Auschwitz German Nazi death camp ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 1:53 am
Israeli student detained and fined for alleged Nazi salute on trip to Auschwitz
Security guards spotted member of group from Kiryat Bialik high school with arm raised; companion asserts he was just waving to spoil another’s photo of camp entrance gates
By ToI Staff
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
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, an Israeli researcher in Holocaust studies who relocated to Oswiecim to be with her Polish husband, walks on the street in Oswiecim, January 13, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 7:38 am
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved to the Polish town that housed the Nazi death camp to join her Polish boyfriend, whom she met on a Holocaust education trip
By PHILISSA CRAMER
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
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