Poland

September 21, 2022, 1:10 am

Poland defends including pogroms in reparation demands: Nazis should have saved Jews

Israeli Holocaust researcher says move is part of Polish efforts to claim they were as much the victims as Jews were; Head of Yad Vashem decries ‘distortion’

By Judah Ari Gross

File - Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches the statue after praying for the dead at a ceremony marking 70 years since Poland's villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during World War II in Jedwabne, Poland, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

September 12, 2022, 1:51 pm

Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Poland seeks WWII reparations – for Jews killed by Poles

Diaspora reporter Judah Ari Gross delves into a shocking story out of Poland; health reporter Nathan Jeffay brings us the latest in COVID research and a cancer detection blood test

By TOI staff

File: Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, second from right in blue tie, speaks next to Catholic clergymen at the Jedwabne commemoration ceremony, July 11, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)

September 11, 2022, 4:35 pm

In its $1.3t demand from Germany, Poland seeks reparations for Jews killed by Poles

Leading Polish researcher decries government report as ‘political, not historical,’ says its authors willfully ignored Polish involvement in atrocities

By Judah Ari Gross

FILE - A bridge straddles Ivangorod, Russia, left, and a border crossing in Narva, Estonia, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

September 8, 2022, 8:14 pm

Four nations bordering Russia to restrict entry to Russians, citing ‘growing influx’

New measures from Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to take effect September 19; Estonian PM: ‘We believe that this is becoming a serious threat to our public security’

By JAN M. OLSEN

Jon Minadeo Jr. in a video on the Goyim TV website. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

September 7, 2022, 2:22 pm

Notorious US antisemite arrested in Poland over offensive banner at Auschwitz

Jon Minadeo fined for holding up crude sign about the CEO of Anti-Defamation League

By TOI staff and JTA

German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)

September 1, 2022, 9:57 pm

Germany rebuffs Polish demand for huge WWII reparations: ‘Issue is closed’

Berlin points to 1953 decision by Warsaw to renounce claims against East Germany; Polish opposition parties dismiss government’s claim as a domestic political ploy

By Bernard OSSER

German soldiers try to dislodge snipers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 in World War II. (AP Photo)

September 1, 2022, 1:27 pm

Poland to demand $1.3 trillion in WWII reparations from Germany

Deputy PM makes bombshell announcement at the release of a report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi occupation, as it marks 83 years since the start of the war

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Dead fish on the banks of the river Oder in Schwedt, eastern Germany, on August 12, 2022, after a massive fish kill was discovered in the river in the eastern federal state of Brandenburg, close to the border with Poland. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

August 14, 2022, 3:40 am

‘Dead fish everywhere’ in German-Polish river after suspected chemical waste dump

Thousands of fish wash up dead on banks of Oder river, as Berlin warns of ‘environmental disaster’ and accuses Warsaw of failing to take timely action

By Hui Min NEO and Bernard OSSER

Ukrainian refugee children gather outside the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

July 30, 2022, 11:16 am

In Warsaw, Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp

Volunteers draw on Jewish experiences with suffering to aid refugee children traumatized by war and help them prepare for a new school year in Poland

By Vanessa Gera

Emergency chutes on a Wizz Air plane from Israel that was evacuated due to a bomb threat, Poland, July 23, 2022 (Screen grab/Ynet)

July 24, 2022, 8:14 am

Bomb threat on Israel-Poland flight prompts evacuation via emergency chutes

Plane lands in Krakow, is sent to isolated area before cabin crew tell passengers to leave plane via slides; second such incident within a week involving Wizz Air carrier

By TOI staff

Israeli student film 'Girl No. 60427' by Oriel Berkovits and Shulamit Lifshitz won a BAFTA award in the Live Action category, July 22, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)

July 24, 2022, 2:23 am

Israeli student film on Holocaust wins BAFTA award

‘Girl No. 60427,’ the first finalist from Israel, wins accolade in 2022 Student Awards’s Live Action category

By TOI staff

People attend a March of Remembrance during ceremonies on July 22, 2022 marking the 80th anniversary of the start of Nazi Germany's mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp of Treblinka. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

July 23, 2022, 5:11 am

Hundreds march through Warsaw to mark 80 years since Nazis liquidated Jewish ghetto

Poland’s chief rabbi compares operation that sent 260,00 to their deaths to mass displacement of Ukrainians during Russian invasion

By AFP

A symbolic grave in the Bialucki Forest near Ilowo on July 13, 2022 the site where the mass grave of about 8,000 Nazi victims from the nearby Soldau concentration camp in Dzialdowo was unearthed at the beginning of July 2022. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

July 14, 2022, 2:32 am

Mass grave with remains of about 8,000 Nazi victims found in Poland

Site with 17.5 tons of human ashes discovered near Soldau concentration camp, north of Warsaw; researchers say victims, possibly ‘Polish elites,’ killed around 1939

By AFP

Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne pays his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on July 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

July 12, 2022, 6:45 pm

Israeli ambassador reinstated in Poland a year after bitter diplomatic spat

‘Time to return to normal relations’: Polish president says envoy to Jerusalem will be dispatched in coming days, after countries locked horns over Holocaust legislation

By Lazar Berman and TOI staff

July 8, 2022, 2:32 am

Polish officials found to be targeted with Israeli NSO group’s spyware

Amnesty International and Polish news outlet identify attempted hacking against former deputy ministers, government advisers

By AP