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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
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony for the 77th anniversary since the Leningrad siege was lifted during the World War II at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of siege victims are buried, in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 18, 2020. (Alexei Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 19, 2020, 8:59 am
In WWII dispute with Russia, Poland notes ‘atrocities’ done by Soviet Union
After Putin claimed Poland bears responsibility for war’s outbreak and days before Auschwitz liberation anniversary, Warsaw says that brought ‘decades of communist oppression’
By AP
Soldiers of the Armia Krayova (Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski/Public Domain)
January 17, 2020, 2:04 pm
In latest broadside, Moscow says Polish resistance army killed Jews in WWII
Russia’s defense ministry accuses Armia Krayova of ‘destroying Jews’ in Warsaw, amid feud with Poland over war’s history
By AFP
Lithuania's Foreign Affairs minister Linas Linkevicius answers journalists' questions as he arrives to attend EU foreign ministers emergency talks on Iran at the Europa building in Brussels on January 10, 2020. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
January 16, 2020, 5:28 pm
Poland, Lithuania lock arms to resist Russia’s WWII revisionism
‘We will not let the Kremlin manipulate history so easily and spread lies,’ pledges Vilnius’s top diplomat, as Moscow blames Polish anti-Semitism for war’s outbreak
By LIUDAS DAPKUS and Vanessa Gera
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of Lithuania, seen in 2016, heads the committee drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in the Holocaust. (Petras Malukas/AFP)
January 15, 2020, 5:16 am
Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes controversial Holocaust law
Government drafting legislation declaring neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in genocide. Survivors, historians and remembrance institutions say this is blatantly false
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish President Andrzej Duda during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019, at the United Nations in New York City. (Don Emmert/AFP)
January 14, 2020, 1:48 am
Polish Jewish community head backs president’s decision to skip Holocaust event
Country’s largest Jewish group unconditionally stands behind Andrzej Duda’s decision to withdraw from next week’s memorial event in Jerusalem after being left off speakers’ list
By JTA and TOI staff
From left: an unidentified girl, Anna Herskovicova, another unidentified girl, Lea Friedmann, and Debora Gross (Adela’s sister), c. 1936. (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)
January 2, 2020, 4:16 am
First transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 young Slovak women and teens
New book details how unmarried women were tricked into showing up for deportation, and follows the few who managed against all odds to survive three long years of hell on earth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Stolperstein Holocaust memorials, or stumbling stones, in front of an apartment building in the Rome Ghetto. (Marcy Oster via JTA)
December 23, 2019, 9:46 pm
Polish city refuses to install memorial stones for Holocaust victims
Szczecin city architect tells Jewish woman who asked to commemorate her father with ‘Stolpersteine’ that passersby might think the perpetrators of the Nazi crimes were Poles
By Katarzyna Markusz
Anti-Semitic Polish ex-priest Jacek Międlar. (YouTube screen capture)
December 13, 2019, 7:23 pm
Polish far-right leader arrested for inciting anti-Semitism
Authorities plan to charge Jacek Miedlar over manifesto accusing Jews of betraying the country when it regained independence in 1918
By AP
A man walks by the State High School of Oswiecim, located in what used to be SS troops's residential building, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
December 5, 2019, 11:15 pm
In Oswiecim, in Auschwitz’s shadow, history is a tough burden to shake
‘Visitors believe that we should be in mourning all day, every day,’ Polish resident says, a day before Merkel visits former Nazi death camp
By Maja Czarnecka
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