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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Polish-Jewish relations

Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
September 21, 2022, 1:10 am
Poland defends including pogroms in reparation demands: Nazis should have saved Jews
Israeli Holocaust researcher says move is part of Polish efforts to claim they were as much the victims as Jews were; Head of Yad Vashem decries ‘distortion’
By Judah Ari Gross
File: Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, second from right in blue tie, speaks next to Catholic clergymen at the Jedwabne commemoration ceremony, July 11, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)
September 11, 2022, 4:35 pm
In its $1.3t demand from Germany, Poland seeks reparations for Jews killed by Poles
Leading Polish researcher decries government report as ‘political, not historical,’ says its authors willfully ignored Polish involvement in atrocities
By Judah Ari Gross
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) speaks at a ceremony in Rabat, on August 11, 2021. Poland's President Andrzej Duda (right) arrives for a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO; Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool via AP)
November 24, 2021, 2:06 am
Poland, Israel moving toward thaw in ties after four-month freeze
Jerusalem’s chargés d’affaires expected to return to Warsaw, though Israel holding back from full restoration of ambassadors following spat over Holocaust restitution legislation
By Amy Spiro
'Lucky Jew Doll' figurines purchased in the Polish cities of Krakow, Warsaw, and Zamosc. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
November 24, 2021, 1:23 am
Why ‘Lucky Jew’ dolls are more popular than actual Jews in Poland
Going against long-held Polish tradition, Krakow’s municipality will slowly phase out the souvenir caricatures after acknowledging the trinkets are antisemitic
By Matt Lebovic
Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska (front) on a walking tour of the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. (Stan Baranski/FestivALT)
November 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp
Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site
By Amy Spiro
Polish Senator Michal Kaminski addresses the European Jewish Association gala in Krakow on November 8, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/EJA)
November 12, 2021, 12:25 pm
Israel skips Poland antisemitism meet, but some still see thaw in ties ahead
Polish opposition senator tells ToI that a diplomatic spat over Holocaust restitution legislation can be put to bed, but Jerusalem sticks to demand that Warsaw fix law first
By Amy Spiro
Jewish and Christian clergy stand together for prayers for the souls of some 60 Jews murdered by the occupying Nazi German forces during a ceremony marking a memorial to the victims in Wojslawice, Poland, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 20, 2021, 3:13 am
Not forgotten: Mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims dedicated in Poland
New technology and old memories help to find and secure burial sites of Jews shot and buried by German forces in fields and forests across the country
By Vanessa Gera
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks off, after speaking during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 2, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
August 12, 2021, 2:52 am
US urges Poland’s Duda not to sign WWII restitution law passed by parliament
Blinken says he’s deeply concerned over passage of law severely curtailing possibility for Holocaust survivors and their families to obtain property restitution
By Jacob Magid
File: The lower hose of Poland's parliament, or Sejm, filled with new lawmakers, and foreign diplomats as guests, during the gala inauguration of a new four-year term of the national parliamentin Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 11, 2021, 11:34 pm
Israeli leaders pan ‘disgrace’ as Poland passes law curbing WWII property claims
FM Lapid says Jerusalem will review 2018 joint statement on Holocaust remembrance; Knesset speaker cancels plans to form inter-parliamentary friendship group
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Thousands of Polish nationalists march to the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, on May 11, 2019, to protest US pressure on Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 29, 2021, 7:14 pm
82 MKs appeal to Polish counterparts to block anti-restitution law
The bill, which has already been overwhelmingly approved by both houses of Warsaw parliament, would effectively end Jewish Holocaust-era property claims
By ToI Staff
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
June 27, 2021, 12:15 am
‘Poland will not pay’: Polish PM hits back at Lapid criticism of restitution law
Mateusz Morawiecki digs in heels after Israeli FM attacks law that would set a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property, barring all Holocaust claims
By ToI Staff
Poland's lawmakers during voting – some in parliament, some remotely – in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 25, 2021, 9:12 am
Israel slams new Polish Holocaust law as ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace’
The legislation, which must still be approved by Poland’s senate, sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property
By Amy Spiro
A sign at the entrance to the village of Malinowo, Poland. (Google Maps)
January 19, 2021, 12:39 pm
Polish Holocaust scholars on trial for suggesting mayor helped kill 22 Jews
Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking were sued for revisiting post-WWII claim against Malinowo mayor Edward Malinowski
By Cnaan Liphshiz
President Andrzej Duda of Poland speaks to the media in front of remains of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 2019. (John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images)
September 17, 2020, 8:49 pm
2 US senators warn Poland’s president on anti-Semitism and restitution
Pointing to recent election, Nevada and Oklahoma lawmakers highlight ‘growing anti-Semitic discourse in Poland and scapegoating of the Jewish community’
By Ron Kampeas
Supporters attend a campaign meeting of Polish President and candidate to his reelection for his Law and Justice (PiS) party Andrzej Duda in Plonsk, central Poland on June 16, 2020. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP)
June 17, 2020, 9:51 pm
Polish right targets Jewish claims, LGBT in election fight
President Duda has equated ‘LGBT ideology’ with communism, while public television has attacked his main rival for being open to discussing Holocaust compensation
By Stanislaw Waszak
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