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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a memorial ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp and to honor the victims of the Holocaust, in Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland, on International Holocaust Memorial Day. January 27, 2010. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
Israel said to protest to Warsaw over PR campaign on Holocaust law deal
By TOI staff
Diplomats reportedly tell Polish counterparts that ads reprinting controversial declaration 'violate' understanding reached to end spat over historical narrative
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a memorial ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp and to honor the victims of the Holocaust, in Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland, on International Holocaust Memorial Day. January 27, 2010. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
July 6, 2018, 3:28 pm
Israel said to protest to Warsaw over PR campaign on Holocaust law deal
Diplomats reportedly tell Polish counterparts that ads reprinting controversial declaration 'violate' understanding reached to end spat over historical narrative
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018, to discuss Poland's amended Holocaust Law. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 6, 2018, 2:57 pm
Polish off the Holocaust law deal: 6 things to know for July 6
The joint declaration by Israel and Poland which absolves the European country of involvement in Nazi crimes causes an uproar in the Jewish state
By Adiv Sterman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Amir Cohen)
July 5, 2018, 9:24 pm
Netanyahu aides insist Yad Vashem approved controversial Holocaust declaration
Hours after national memorial slams joint Israeli-Polish statement as 'highly problematic,' PM's negotiators say chief historian signed off on text
By Tamar Pileggi
Then IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo: Dan Balilty)
July 4, 2018, 10:16 am
Shaken and stirred: 8 things to know for July 4
Surveys show Israelis like Trump and that Benny Gantz could shake up the political scene about as much as a minor quake that scares the bejesus out of some sleepyheads
By Joshua Davidovich
A school in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. (screen capture: Google Street View)
July 2, 2018, 5:40 am
Hasidic pilgrims say rabbi’s grave buried under Polish school
Followers of Modzitz sect push Kazimierz Dolny to allow them to pray in schoolyard where they believe founder of group is interred
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018, to discuss Poland's amended Holocaust Law. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 28, 2018, 2:31 pm
Taking the Pole position: 7 things to know for June 28
The rift between Israel and Poland is over, but it seems Israel had to accept the Polish narrative to bury the Holocaust law; plus war on the horizon and a lesson about fake news
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland visits the Ulma Family Museum, Jan. 2, 2018. Right-wing critics in his country accused Morawiecki of capitulating to Israel in softening a law on Holocaust rhetoric. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 28, 2018, 1:20 am
How the US pressured Poland into softening its law on Holocaust speech
As Israel takes credit for amendment, many Polish analysts say it was Washington, not Jerusalem, that exacted concession
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)
June 27, 2018, 2:21 pm
Poland amends controversial Holocaust law, nixing penalties
World Jewish Congress says criminalization was an 'egregious mistake,' calls for further examination of 'inherently flawed' legislation
By TOI staff and Agencies
A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)
June 27, 2018, 11:12 am
Poland set to amend controversial Holocaust law, nixing penalties
Prime minister says legislation, which Israel fiercely objects to, may not be serving purpose of 'defending the good name' of the country
By TOI staff and Agencies
Leni Riefenstahl directs 'Olympia,' based on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany (public domain)
June 14, 2018, 9:03 pm
The quiet absolution of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
As the Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of the 'Triumph of the Will' propagandist, scholars worry it validates her distorted take on history
By Matt Lebovic
Dozens of Israeli paratroopers land in Poland during the US-led 'Swift Response' exercise in Europe in June 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 13, 2018, 5:03 pm
Historic resonance as Israeli paratroopers train over Germany, Poland
Officers note 'moving' symbolism of Jewish soldiers operating in Polish territory, where Nazi death camps once stood
By Judah Ari Gross
Gena Turgel (YouTube screen cap)
June 9, 2018, 12:27 pm
‘Bride of Belsen’ Holocaust survivor who treated Anne Frank dies aged 95
Gena Turgel survived the Krakow ghetto, a death march, and the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps
By TOI staff
A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
June 8, 2018, 11:55 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents drop sharply in Poland and Hungary, watchdogs say
Despite recent widespread concern of rising anti-Jewish sentiment in Eastern Europe, monitors recorded 20-30% fewer incidents in 2017 than year before
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
May 31, 2018, 3:58 am
Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism
While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame
By Matt Lebovic
Amit Hirsch, right, recites the mourner's prayer at what used to be the Jewish cemetery in Turobin, Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)
May 27, 2018, 3:25 pm
Who killed a Polish Holocaust hero? His family may be close to finding out
Long-forgotten testimony by the victim's sister -- the family's sole survivor -- may help solve the decades-old mystery behind the murder of Sobibor escapee Josef Kopf
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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