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Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera via JTA)
May 1, 2021, 6:34 am
Auschwitz inmates’ families oppose ex-PM on museum council
Relatives say former Polish PM Beata Szydlo has tolerated ‘openly fascist’ groups and supported attempts to stifle research into the Holocaust
By AP
The pregnant Egyptian mummy is prepared for X-ray scans at a medical centre in Otwock near Warsaw, Poland in December 2015. (Warsaw Mummy Project)
April 30, 2021, 11:28 pm
Polish scientists find 1st ever pregnant Egyptian mummy
University of Warsaw professor says ‘a little foot’ was seen in the embalmed women’s belly: ‘That is why this mummy is truly unique’
By AFP
Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera via JTA)
April 15, 2021, 1:19 am
Jewish leader quits Auschwitz board over right-wing politician’s nomination
Beata Szydlo of Poland’s Law and Justice party nominated to state’s museum board; her faction has been accused of manipulating the historical record on the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Catholic University of Lublin (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 10, 2021, 6:57 am
Polish university calls anti-Semitic blood libel claims ‘scientific discourse’
Catholic institution decides not to punish priest and faculty member who said Jews practice ‘ritual murders’
By Katarzyna Markusz
An election poster featuring Waldemar Wojciechowski ahead of the 2020 local elections in Poland. (PIS via JTA)
April 2, 2021, 6:08 am
Local Polish politician: Jews don’t buy land ‘because you can’t cheat the earth’
Opposition figure condemns anti-Semitic remark by Waldemar Wojciechowski: ‘It is a scandal to perpetuate such stereotypes’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Anna Kozminska, a Polish woman believed to the be oldest living person recognized by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Kozminska died in March 2021 at age 101 (Polish Institute of National Remembrance)
March 30, 2021, 3:06 pm
Oldest surviving ‘Righteous Among Nations,’ who saved Jewish boy, dies age 101
Anna Kozminska and her stepmother sheltered 8-year-old Abraham Jablonski during the Nazi occupation of Poland; they also helped save three others
By TOI staff
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)
March 29, 2021, 1:05 am
‘So many lies’: Auschwitz museum slams New Yorker Holocaust piece on Poland
Article’s subtitle accuses Polish government of prosecuting Holocaust scholars ‘to exonerate the nation of the murders of three million Jews’
By Vanessa Gera
Berta Berkovich 'Betka' Kohút and her family in 1942, before she was deported to Auschwitz. Berta is standing, second from right (courtesy: Tom Areton)
March 27, 2021, 12:57 pm
Sewing for survival: The last of Auschwitz’s forgotten ‘dressmakers’ dies
Final member of death camp’s ‘sewing circle’ dies of COVID-related complications; high-profile book based on women’s experiences to be published in September
By Matt Lebovic
Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)
March 27, 2021, 12:56 pm
Poland to allow in Israeli travelers without need for quarantine
Vaccinated tourists or those with negative tests up to 48 hours before arrival will be let in; Greece, Cyprus also to welcome Israelis more freely
By TOI staff
In this May 8, 2008 file photo Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist from New Jersey, takes a look at name registers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany. Germany’s International Center on Nazi Persecution has uploaded some 850,000 documents with information on ten million people collected after the end of World War II in the American occupied zone of Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
March 24, 2021, 10:47 am
Archives uncover forgotten names of Auschwitz inmates
Researchers find previously unknown identities of an estimated 4,000 prisoners and information about 26,000 others
By Bernard OSSER
Polish Armia Krajowa soldiers are depicted in the German 'Generation War' TV series. (Youtube screenshot)
March 24, 2021, 12:11 am
Polish court: German TV must recant portrayal of anti-Nazi group as anti-Semitic
2013 series on World War II under fire for depiction of Polish resistance movement; German ZDF broadcaster ordered to publish apology on website
By AFP
On Feb. 6, 2018, Polish President Andrzej Duda announces his decision to sign legislation penalizing certain statements about the Holocaust, in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
March 23, 2021, 1:02 pm
Polish writer faces possible prison time for calling president a ‘moron’
Screenwriter Jakub Zulczyk charged with ‘an act of public insult’ for Facebook post criticizing Andrzej Duda’s tweet about US election
By AFP
Menachem Kaiser documents his journey in 'Plunder.' (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
March 17, 2021, 11:47 pm
Go down an adventurous rabbit hole with an author seeking property taken in WWII
In ‘Plunder,’ Menachem Kaiser captures Poland’s absurdly draconian legal system even as he goes deep underground with hunters of Nazi treasure
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Candles depicting haredi Orthodox Jews are on sale in Poland. (Jewish.pl/Jan Gebert via JTA)
March 16, 2021, 3:13 am
Latest ‘Lucky Jew’ figurines in Poland: Candles that promise ‘financial success’
Good luck charms sold by candle companies depict ultra-Orthodox Jews counting money; some Polish Jews say products reminiscent of Nazi crematoria
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Menachem Kaiser documents his journey in 'Plunder.' (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
March 13, 2021, 11:03 pm
From Shoah reparations to lost Nazi treasure: A writer’s journey on family trail
Menachem Kaiser set out to reclaim a building his grandfather’s family owned in Poland before the Holocaust; he could never have predicted how the story would go
By Emily Burack
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