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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
Marchers wave an Israeli flag in Warsaw's Pride Parade, June 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 11, 2019, 2:12 am
Jewish community participates in Warsaw Pride Parade for first time
Contingent of Jews bearing Israeli flags joins march to support ‘fight against hatred’ in Poland
By Katarzyna Markusz
Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
June 6, 2019, 10:57 am
Poland honors conservative philosopher fired by UK government over Soros rant
Roger Scruton, axed from housing panel, drew opprobrium for comments about Chinese authoritarianism, a ‘Soros empire’ in Hungary, the ‘sudden invasion’ of Muslim migrants to Europe
By TOI staff and AP
The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
June 3, 2019, 11:50 pm
With death of last Sobibor survivor, experts feud over site’s transformation
After passing of Sobibor revolt participant Semyon Rosenfeld on Monday, there will be no survivors to witness completion of the former Nazi death camp’s makeover next year
By Matt Lebovic
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
May 28, 2019, 6:08 pm
2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep nude protest
Belarusians sentenced two years after they chained themselves together in front of camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign in protest of wars in Ukraine, Syria
By Vanessa Gera
Polish MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who said that a 1953 government agreement with Berlin about war reparations was not legally binding. (YouTube screenshot)
May 21, 2019, 7:28 pm
Polish official says country should seek German reparations for WWII
Ruling party lawmaker asserts no records show Poland ever renouncing its right to do so, even as Warsaw refuses to discuss Jewish restitution
By Agencies and TOI staff
Polish politician Konrad Berkowicz puts a skullcap on the head of rival lawmaker Anna Krupka during a debate in Kielce on May 18, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
May 19, 2019, 7:53 pm
Polish candidate puts kippah on rival, says her party ‘kneels to Jews’
Election debate devolves into display of anti-Semitism as candidates spar over restitution to Jewish Holocaust victims; Polish PM says paying compensation a ‘victory for Hitler’
By TOI staff
Far right demonstrators protest against the US Senate's 447 Holocaust Restitution bill, in Warsaw on May 11, 2019. (Photo by Alik KEPLICZ / AFP)
May 13, 2019, 7:49 am
Poland cancels Israeli officials’ trip over Holocaust property restitution row
Warsaw says composition of delegation set to visit from Jerusalem suggested talks would focus on restoring Jewish assets
By TOI staff and AFP
Illustrative: Screen capture of the Nowy Targ synagogue, Poland. (Google maps)
May 12, 2019, 4:29 pm
Two former synagogues destroyed in Poland and Ukraine
16th-century building in Pidhaitsi collapses due to heavy rains; contractors tear down 100-year-old structure near Krakow after conservationists fail to register it as monument
By JTA
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, right, and Dariusz Stola, the director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, visit the museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday March 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 12, 2019, 3:02 am
Incumbent director of Polish Jewish museum wins backing to stay in job
Panel supports Dariusz Stola, who criticized Holocaust law, to continue to lead Polin history museum, but government has last say
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Far right demonstrators protest against the US Senate's 447 Holocaust Restitution bill, in Warsaw on May 11, 2019. (Photo by Alik KEPLICZ / AFP)
May 12, 2019, 12:00 am
Polish far-right marches in protest at US pressure for Holocaust restitution
Thousands or activists gather at US embassy in Warsaw, in one of the largest anti-Jewish street demonstrations in recent times
By Agencies
Blue and White co-chairman Yair Lapid at the opening session of the new Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 10, 2019, 1:58 pm
Auschwitz museum slams Lapid ‘lie’ after he claims Poles helped run death camps
Israeli politician says Poles ‘cooperated in creating and running extermination camps’; memorial site says comment ‘hurts like a clash with Holocaust denial’
By TOI staff
A Los Angeles couple, Craig Gilmore, left, and David Crocker, pose in front of a 17th painting, "Portrait of a Lady" by the Flemish artist Melchior Geldorp at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
May 5, 2019, 5:07 pm
Looted Nazi art and LGBT rights merge in recovery of Polish painting
After their prized 17th-century portrait is revealed to have been stolen from Poland’s National Museum, Los Angles same-sex couple turns setback into equality campaign
By Vanessa Gera
United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman participates in the March of the Living ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on May 2, 2019 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
May 3, 2019, 9:26 am
Friedman plays down statistics linking white supremacy to anti-Jewish violence
At March of the Living, US ambassador tells Times of Israel ‘it’s a mistake to get caught up’ in analysis of numbers when attacks are not ‘a daily occurrence’
By Michael Bachner
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