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Jonny Daniels delivers groceries to a rescuer of Jews in Warsaw, Poland, March 17, 2020. (Courtesy of From the Depths/ via JTA)
March 21, 2020, 3:37 pm
Jewish group delivers food to aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
From the Depths, an organization dedicated to helping Righteous Gentiles who risked their lives in WWII, converts a free taxi service to bring supplies amid the coronavirus crisis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The ruins of gas chambers and crematoria at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau, January 28, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
March 11, 2020, 9:15 pm
Auschwitz closes to visitors over coronavirus fears
Memorial and camp to remain shut until at least March 25; March of the Living already postponed
By JTA and TOI staff
Janusz Korwin-Mikke speaking at the Polish parliament in Warsaw on June 26, 2015. (Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 4, 2020, 8:20 pm
Far-right Polish lawmaker: Natural selection via pogroms made Jews powerful
‘There are even theories that rabbis deliberately provoke pogroms precisely so that Jews survive,’ claims Janusz Korwin-Mikke
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The new director of Poland's landmark POLIN museum of Jewish history, Zygmunt Stepinski, at the museum in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 29, 2020, 1:05 am
New director of Poland’s Jewish museum vows independence
After a year-long leadership stalemate with government, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews can carry on with its mission, says new head Zygmunt Stepinski
By AP
Visitors walk through the infamous gate reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' or 'work will make you free,' at the former site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 28, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
February 28, 2020, 7:29 pm
Auschwitz museum calls to halt visits from countries infected with virus
No cases have yet emerged in Poland, though officials say they are likely to appear soon amid global spread of pathogen
By TOI staff
Anti-Semitic Polish ex-priest Jacek Międlar. (YouTube screen capture)
February 20, 2020, 11:07 am
Polish former priest indicted for hate speech and Holocaust denial
Three charges brought against Jacek Miedlar who, among other allegations, in 2017 said Jews in synagogues ‘get drunk with Talmudic hatred’; could face 3 years if convicted
By Agencies
People visit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 14, 2020, 7:19 pm
Polish government accepts new Jewish museum chief, ending yearlong standoff
Authorities agree to former deputy director of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in a compromise, after refusing to re-appoint director for alleged political bias
By Vanessa Gera
People walk through a wooden 17th century synagogue once located in Gwozdziec, a formerly Polish town now in Ukraine, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jew in Warsaw, Poland, October 21, 2014. (Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press)
February 12, 2020, 12:41 pm
To break Warsaw Jewish museum impasse, elected director agrees to give up post
Dariusz Stola ran afoul of Polish authorities for criticizing their policies, including controversial Holocaust speech law; says willing to cede his right to head POLIN institution
By Vanessa Gera
Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, center, walks to meet dignitaries, rear left, during commemorations at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 29, 2020, 10:35 pm
Auschwitz survivor draws praise, but also criticism in Poland with WWII speech
Marian Turski says the Holocaust didn’t ‘fall from the sky’ but came after growing acceptance for discrimination against minorities; remarks seen as aimed at nationalist government
By Vanessa Gera
A Polish flag displayed in front of a former crematorium oven at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, January 20, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
January 25, 2020, 4:16 am
Poland pushes for Nazi camp in Austria to be remembered
Warsaw charges that Gusen camp, a satellite of Mauthausen complex, is neglected by Austrian authorities; some 35,800 detainees, many Polish, died there
By Celine JANKOWIAK and Blaise GAUQUELIN
Some of the objects discovered at the former synagogue of Wieliczka, Poland in 2019. (Courtesy of Michał Wojenka via JTA)
January 25, 2020, 3:36 am
Restorers find trove of precious Judaica in wall of former Polish synagogue
Hidden chest includes silver-plated candlesticks, bronze vases with Hebrew inscriptions, silver goblet; unknown who concealed it
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Trupa Trupa (Courtesy)
January 23, 2020, 4:13 am
Polish post-punk band rages against populism, hatred, and Holocaust denial
Trupa Trupa vocalist and songwriter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski — shaped by his ancestors’ imprisonment at Stutthof concentration camp — speaks truth to power through punk poetry
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A drawing of cows wearing concentration camp uniforms and a yellow star, meant to compare the meat industry to the Holocaust. (Sylwia Spurek/Jo Frederiks/via JTA)
January 22, 2020, 5:46 pm
Polish lawmaker shares image likening meat industry to Holocaust
Sylwia Spurek pushes back against criticism with Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: ‘In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A wagon stands on the railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, December 8, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
January 22, 2020, 5:00 am
A haunting view of Auschwitz, 75 years after liberation
Associated Press photographer Markus Schreiber captures black and white photos of the remains of notorious death camp where a million of Europe’s Jews were murdered
By AP and TOI staff
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
January 21, 2020, 4:57 pm
Lithuania leader joins Poland in snubbing Israel event amid WWII row with Russia
Gitanas Nauseda cancels participation in Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, with source saying it is because Polish president wasn’t allowed to speak while Putin was
By AFP and TOI staff
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