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Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (L) delivers a speech on stage next to US actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Kristen Stewart after he was awarded with the Best Director prize for the film 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)" on May 19, 2018 during the closing ceremony of the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI)

May 20, 2018, 9:10 am

Polish director of Oscar-winning Holocaust film triumphs again at Cannes

Pawel Pawlikowski's new work 'Cold War' follows a tempestuous love story based on his own parents, set against the backdrop of the Iron Curtain

By Mary SIBIERSKI and Fiachra GIBBONS

Copies of "The Diary of Anne Frank" are displayed at the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS

May 16, 2018, 12:11 pm

Anne Frank’s gay uncle, sex jokes found ‘hidden’ in her diary

Just-released 'uncovered' writings in Frank's original diary show she enjoyed the occasional off-color joke -- just like any teen

By Matt Lebovic

Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski poses during a photocall for the film 'Cold War (Zimna Wojna)' at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 11, 2018. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)

May 12, 2018, 9:14 am

Polish director of Holocaust film says he’s been blacklisted by government

Pawel Pawlikowski states his Oscar-winning movie 'Ida' now banned in wake of law barring blaming Poles for Nazi crimes

By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS

US President Donald Trump during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, May 9, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)

May 10, 2018, 4:32 pm

Trump signs Holocaust property law that has angered Poland

Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today Act requires State Department to report on steps some European countries are taking to compensate WWII victims and their heirs

By AP

The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)

May 7, 2018, 9:13 pm

Israeli teen admits to urinating on Auschwitz memorial

Polish prosecutor says 19-year-old asks to pay fine as punishment for relieving himself at former Nazi death camp

By AFP

A man walks in front of a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre of 1940, Friday, May 4, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

May 5, 2018, 8:00 am

Polish officials clash with US city over WWII statue’s removal

Monument honoring victims of a 1940 Soviet massacre of Poles removed from Jersey City plaza, sparking war of words

By AP

This file photo taken April 29, 2017, shows members of the far-right group, the National-Radical Camp, marking the 83rd anniversary of their organization, in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

April 29, 2018, 4:52 pm

Facebook removes Polish far-right pages for anti-Semitic content

Social media giant says groups whose pages were taken down 'openly promote racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic views'

By JTA

A car passes the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, September 24, 2009. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

April 26, 2018, 11:16 pm

Polish nationalists protest outside US Embassy against Holocaust restitution

Demonstrators decry law passed in Washington requiring State Department to keep track of European countries' efforts to return WWII Jewish property

By JTA

Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Bartosz Cichocki, speaks during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, March 1, 2018. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP

April 26, 2018, 9:31 pm

Poland criticizes US claim that Polish law glorifies Nazism

Deputy foreign minister challenges Washington on failure to combat Holocaust after being warned by Polish government-in-exile

By AP

Members of the Polish neo-Nazi Pride and Modernity group celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday in an undated video. (Screen capture: TVN24)

April 22, 2018, 6:22 pm

Two Polish men detained for Hitler birthday concert

Arrests come as hundreds of neo-Nazis gather in nearby German town for annual festival marking Nazi dictator's birthday

By AFP

In this photo taken on April 19, 2016 people gather in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising monument holding daffodils to mark the Warsaw Ghetto uprising's 73th anniversary. (AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)

April 19, 2018, 12:28 pm

With daffodils, Poland marks 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

As Poles wear paper flowers as symbol of mourning, survivor says he is 'terrified by the rebirth of fascism and nationalism' in country

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, center, walk in the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

April 17, 2018, 7:10 pm

Polish nationalists seek probe of Rivlin for saying Poland played Holocaust role

Group asks prosecutors to check whether Israeli president broke new controversial law when, speaking at Auschwitz, he said Poland enabled Nazi genocide

By AP and TOI staff

IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot looks through a printed list of all identified victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

April 12, 2018, 9:05 pm

In Poland, IDF chief says military puts meaning behind ‘Never again’

Eisenkot marches alongside President Rivlin, senior security officials in March of the Living at Auschwitz

By Judah Ari Gross

Polish president Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

April 12, 2018, 8:11 pm

Polish president: Before the Germans, Auschwitz saw Jewish-Polish ‘coexistence’

Poles were 'also brutally persecuted,' says Andrzej Duda at March of the Living; Rivlin cites Polish complicity in Holocaust, challenging new law

By TOI staff

Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)

April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm

The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life

For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that

By Matt Lebovic