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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

Poland

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
Tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the 'Wolf's Lair' in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, July 17 2004. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski, File)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 pm
Poland ends probe into bones found at former Hitler HQ due to lack of evidence
Polish prosecutors say the level of decay makes it impossible to determine whether a crime occurred in the deaths of the four bodies at Wolf’s Lair
By Vanessa Gera
Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up
Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says
By Shira Li Bartov
A Polish police officer stands guard outside the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw on May 1, 2024, after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the building. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP)
May 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Polish police investigate arson attack on Warsaw synagogue
No significant damage done to house of worship in incident, and none hurt
By AFP and ToI Staff
A pro-Palestinian protester takes the stage briefly at the official ceremony to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland, April 19, 2024. (Gabe Miner via JTA)
April 20, 2024, 5:36 am
Demonstrator unfurls Palestinian flag on stage at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration
Sole protester places flowers then joins dignitaries at ceremony, unfurls flag and stands with his head down; police escort him away
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Friends and residents gather to place candles and flowers in honor of Damian Soból, a Polish food aid worker who was killed with six other World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza this week, in Soból's hometown of Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo)
April 6, 2024, 12:40 am
Poland summons Israeli envoy to protest aid worker’s death in Gaza strike
Deputy Polish FM says Yacov Livne ‘apologized for this unprecedented event in the history of the civilized world,’ calls for local prosecutor to take part in Israeli investigation
By Vanessa Gera
People gather around the remains of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (AFP)
April 4, 2024, 2:23 am
Senior Israeli official warns of growing ‘shoot first, ask later’ culture in IDF
Head of World Central Kitchen accuses Israel of ‘systematically’ targeting aid convoy, says WCK was in IDF-controlled area; international criticism continues to pour in
By Jacob Magid
Lior Ashkenazi as 'Sol' in episode one of Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones.' (Vlad Cioplea/Hulu)
March 27, 2024, 4:03 pm
‘How many miracles can we get?’: Holocaust saga comes to life in new Hulu miniseries
Stars Joey King and Logan Lerman are joined by many Israeli cast members, including Lior Ashkenazi, Hadas Yaron and Michael Aloni, in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones,’ set in WWII Poland
By Amy Spiro
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