Poland

Polish officials and war veterans pay tribute to a World War II-era underground force that collaborated with Nazi German forces toward the end of the war in Warsaw, Poland, August 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

August 11, 2019, 6:02 pm

Poland honors World War II group that collaborated with Nazis

Polish president, ruling party officials pay tribute to wartime force in pitch to right-wing voters; country’s chief rabbi calls ceremony ‘dangerous’ historical revisionism

By Agencies

Krystyna Danko receives flowers from From the Depths founder Jonny Daniels in her Warsaw apartment on her 102nd birthday, July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)

August 9, 2019, 8:33 pm

Polish woman who saved adoptive Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102

Krystyna Danko, a Righteous Among the Nations, remembered as ‘an angel of goodness’ for rescuing Kokoszko family

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

August 7, 2019, 9:47 pm

Polish government invites top rabbi to event honoring accused Nazi collaborators

Rabbi Michael Schudrich blasts ceremony for Swietokrzyska Brigade, held under auspices of Polish president; condemns ‘dangerous’ historical revisionism

By AFP

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

August 7, 2019, 8:26 pm

Poland bans neo-Nazi group filmed celebrating Hitler’s birthday

Judge in southern city of Gliwice says leaked footage of 2017 event sponsored by Pride and Modernity party leaves ‘no doubt’ of intentions to propagate Nazi ideology

By AFP

In this July 17, 2004 photo tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the 'Wolf's Lair' in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, where his chief of staff members made an unsuccessful attempt at Hitler's life on July 20, 1944 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

August 2, 2019, 11:32 pm

Critics say revamp of Wolf’s Lair will turn Hitler HQ into neo-Nazi ‘Disneyland’

Historian says Polish plan for historical reenactments at site where Holocaust decisions were made is ‘insane and outrageous’

By TOI staff and Agencies

People light flares as they observe a minute of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II on August 1, 2019, in the Polish capital Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

August 1, 2019, 10:17 pm

Poles mark 75 years since Warsaw Uprising against Nazis

Polish capital comes to standstill as sirens wail in homage to failed rebellion; German FM tells Polish people he’s ashamed of what Nazis did to their country

By AFP

Maria Mostowska, 96, shares her memories with The Associated Press Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Warsaw, Poland, of having faced death during the 1944 Warsaw Rising struggle against the occupying Nazi Germans ahead of state ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the failed revolt. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

August 1, 2019, 12:55 pm

Ex-nurse recalls bravery and carnage in failed 1944 Polish revolt against Nazis

In largest act of resistance during World War II, 50,000 fighters of clandestine Home Army fought Germans for 63 days before surrendering

By Monica Scislowska

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

July 31, 2019, 8:38 pm

German FM in Poland for talks, WWII Warsaw revolt’s 75th anniversary

Heiko Maas is highest German official in years to attend observances for uprising against Nazis

By AP and TOI staff

Kazimierz Albin. (Auschwitz Memorial/Twitter)

July 23, 2019, 7:33 pm

Kazimierz Albin, early Auschwitz prisoner, dies at 96

Last survivor from first convoy of prisoners sent to Nazi death camp went on to become an engineer and serve on PM advisory board that looked after Holocaust memorial

By AFP

Vandalism at the newly renovated Jewish cemetery in Tarnow in southern Poland, July 2019. The graffiti reads, 'Jews eat children. Jadowniki eat Jews.' Jadowniki is a nearby village. (Facebook/Natalia Gancarz/via JTA)

July 22, 2019, 11:04 pm

Historic Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized a month after rededication

Graffiti at newly renovated site in Tarnow in southern Poland reads ‘Jews eat children’; official calls incident ‘result of anti-Semitism and deep depravity’

By Katarzyna Markusz

Krystyna Danko receiving flowers from Jonny Daniels on in her apartment in Warsaw, Poland on her 102nd birthday on July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)

July 21, 2019, 12:26 am

Holocaust survivor helps buy hospital bed for Polish rescuer, 102

Krystyna Danko was adopted by Jewish family before World War II, then saved all four members from the Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The POLIN Museum of Jewish History in Warsaw, Poland, opened in 2014 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

July 16, 2019, 9:30 pm

Fearing for its future, donors suspend funds for Poland’s Jewish museum

Contributions to renowned POLIN museum frozen over concerns about government’s failure to renew term of incumbent director

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Plan rendering for memorial park at the site of the former Great Synagogue of Oswiecim, Poland, set to open on November 28, 2019 (courtesy: Auschwitz Jewish Center)

July 4, 2019, 4:01 am

Memorial for 400-year-old Jewish community to be built in town next to Auschwitz

Few visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp pass through Poland’s Oswiecim. That might change as sites tied to the city’s Jewish past are preserved, restored, and digitized

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative: Jews digging a trench in which they were later buried after being shot, in Ponary, Poland. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)

June 18, 2019, 8:17 am

Anti-Semitic attack on workshop of stonemason who made Polish Holocaust monument

‘Jews Away’ found written in ruins after bulldozer flattens building where artist built memorial to 1942 massacre; property dispute may be cause

By JTA

Rabbi Dawid Szychowski telling journalists about the Festival of Tranquility that he launched in Lodz, Poland, on June 8, 2019. (Courtesy Shvei Israel/via JTA)

June 13, 2019, 11:23 am

Polish city of Lodz has first Jewish festival in decades

Historically one of Poland’s most vibrant Jewish communities, the city was emptied of Jews during the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz