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Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)

From the WebApril 18, 2019, 10:33 pm

100 families to celebrate seder in Warsaw Ghetto for first time since 1943

Historic Passover meal to be held on the 76th anniversary of WWII uprising, the Jewish News reports

Fire damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, April 16, 2019. (Gigarama.ru via AP)

April 18, 2019, 8:21 pm

In letter to bishops, Polish rabbis grieve over Notre Dame damage

Jewish leaders say community knows ‘what it means to see your house of worship burning’

By Agencies

Polish Senator Grzegorz Bierecki talks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, April 11, 2019 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

April 12, 2019, 2:40 am

Amid outrage, Polish senator defends talk of ‘purging people who are not worthy’

Ruling party’s Grzegorz Bierecki says his remarks were misunderstood, only referred to those responsible for 2010 plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski

By Vanessa Gera

British Holocaust denier David Irving. (JTA)

April 3, 2019, 11:16 pm

Activists petition Polish police to bar Holocaust denier from country

David Irving causes uproar with plan to give tour of death camps in September

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this July 12, 2009 file, the empty parking lot of an Auchan hypermarket is seen in Plaisir, France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

April 3, 2019, 11:32 am

French supermarket chain apologizes over swastika money belts

After complaint by customer in Polish branch, Auchan says sale of product sale was an ‘oversight’ and it is being pulled from shelves

By AFP

In this file photo from July 29, 2016, a man crosses the iconic rails leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)

April 1, 2019, 12:17 am

US man charged with trying to steal item from Auschwitz

37-year-old man admits attempting to steal metal part of historic rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded; faces up to 10 years in prison

By AP

A convoy of UN vehicles drive through damaged buildings in the Syrian town of Quneitra, in the Golan Heights on March 26, 2019. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

March 26, 2019, 10:03 pm

At UN, European states reject Israeli sovereignty over Golan

Belgium, UK, France, Germany and Poland say no change in stance on strategic plateau after Trump recognition, warn move could have negative consequences

By AFP and TOI staff

A couple holds hands as they walk balanced on the rails of the railroad tracks that brought more than a million people to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 26, 1995. (AP/Jockel Finck)

March 21, 2019, 6:57 am

Stop trying to balance on tracks, Auschwitz museum pleads

Commemorative site says too many visitors are disrespecting those who perished at the Nazi death camp by using the railroad ties leading to the site for balance practice

By JTA

Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

March 20, 2019, 8:55 pm

Russia ‘bewildered’ by Poland’s WWII anniversary celebration snub

Moscow says Warsaw ignoring ‘historic logic’; Polish president’s office says events will be commemorated with allies who ‘work for peace based on observing international law’

By AFP

An inscription reading 'They were Flammable' and a Nazi swastika are seen in Jedwabne, Poland, September 1, 2011, on the monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne burned to death by their Polish neighbors in 1941. (AP/Michal Kosc/File)

March 19, 2019, 6:43 pm

Poland calls off exhumation of bodies from 1941 Jedwabne pogrom

Prosecutor says investigation into attack on town’s Jews by their neighbors will not be reopened, as digging up bodies would likely not provide new evidence

By Katarzyna Markusz

Illustrative. Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine vials, with syringe. (iStock by Getty Images/ Andrey Popov)

March 14, 2019, 10:44 pm

Health Ministry warns of measles infections at nightclub and mall

Unvaccinated partygoers in Tel Aviv and shoppers at mall near Ashdod advised to get immunized, as Israel struggles to contain outbreak of deadly virus

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Historian Jan Gross on the front page of a Polish weekly that instructs readers on how to recognize Jews. (Misiek Kaminski/via JTA)

March 14, 2019, 8:22 pm

Polish parliament drops nationalist weekly over anti-Semitic headline

Spokesperson says list of publications delivered to the legislature will be reviewed to prevent repeat, after Tylko Polska publishes story on ‘How to Recognize a Jew’

By AP and TOI staff

Memorial in Jedwabne, Poland dedicated to Jews who were murdered here on July 10, 1941. (Fczarnowski, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

March 6, 2019, 7:56 pm

Poland considering exhumations at World War II massacre site

In what would be a violation of Jewish religious laws, authorities want to dig up bodies at Jedwabne, where Poles burned alive more than 300 Jews during German occupation

By Agencies and TOI staff

The German words 'Jude Raus' (Jew, get out) are written on the building of the Citizens of Poland (Obywatele RP) movement on February 26, 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

March 4, 2019, 7:57 am

Polish anti-Semitism festers on the internet

‘The old stereotypes are resurfacing,’ says prominent member of Jewish community as nation faces resurgent nationalist right

By Michel VIATTEAU

NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell at the 60th anniversary celebration of NBC's Meet the Press at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, November 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

March 1, 2019, 9:14 am

Polish institute sues NBC’s reporter for conflating Poland with Nazis

Andrea Mitchell said Warsaw ghetto uprising was against ‘the Polish and Nazi regime’; Institute of National Remembrance demands on-screen apology

By JTA