Join our Community
Support ToI and remove all ads
Learn more

ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Polish Jews

A woman passes the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 7, 2024, 11:09 am
Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust and are now just a few thousand
By Shira Li Bartov
Hillel attendees in Berlin build a sukkah. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 2:11 pm
Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot
From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection
By Mati Wagner
Katarzyna and Artur Goławski, co-managers of the Kuzmiuk Bakery, hold their signature cebularz, once called pletzel by Lublin's Yiddish-speaking Jews. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
August 27, 2024, 3:39 pm
Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis
Before 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered, the Kuźmiuk Bakery brought customers from near and far; the descendants of the family who took over only learned of its origins in 2017
By Shira Li Bartov
Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up
Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says
By Shira Li Bartov
Students shout slogans and display a banner reading "Long live the student intifada" as they take part in an anti-Israel rally at the Sorbonne University in Paris on April 29, 2024. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP)
May 2, 2024, 2:18 pm
France seen as more antisemitic than Poland in new poll among Israelis
Almost half of respondents say Poles were as much to blame for the Holocaust as Germans; Germany now seen as least antisemitic
By Canaan Lidor
Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)
April 9, 2024, 9:09 pm
Far-right Polish MP charged after extinguishing parliament’s Hanukkah candles
Grzegorz Braun indicted for insulting people on religious grounds; disrupting Jewish community event, lawmaker described holiday as ‘satanic,’ said he was restoring ‘normality’
By Reuters
Director Agnieszka Holland poses for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film 'Green Border' during the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
September 16, 2023, 4:49 am
Polish minister compares local film on migrant crisis to Nazi propaganda
Zbigniew Ziobro sparks feud with famous filmmaker Agnieszka Holland as he complains depiction of border agents in ‘The Green Border’ insults the country
By Andrew Lapin
Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, right, light a candle during a Hanukkah ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 19, 2022, 11:46 pm
At Hanukkah reception, Polish president thanks Jews for aiding Ukrainian refugees
Andrzej Duda notes that country’s Jewish community has been active in organizing housing, food, education and other services for Ukrainian Jews and non-Jews alike
By Vanessa Gera
Righteous Among the Nations Polish couple Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma. (Public domain)
December 17, 2022, 8:53 pm
Polish couple killed by Nazis for hiding Jews declared martyrs by pope
Pontiff’s move clears path to sainthood for Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma; they hid Jews in town of Markowa until informant turned them in
By AP
Zofia Posmysz, a then-96-year-old Polish Catholic woman who survived the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, poses at her home in Warsaw, Poland, January 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
August 8, 2022, 9:24 pm
Polish Holocaust survivor and novelist Zofia Posmysz dies at 98
Serving in the Polish resistance in Krakow, Posmysz survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps before becoming a journalist and novelist after the war
By AP
People attend a March of Remembrance during ceremonies on July 22, 2022 marking the 80th anniversary of the start of Nazi Germany's mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp of Treblinka. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
July 23, 2022, 5:11 am
Hundreds march through Warsaw to mark 80 years since Nazis liquidated Jewish ghetto
Poland’s chief rabbi compares operation that sent 260,00 to their deaths to mass displacement of Ukrainians during Russian invasion
By AFP
Menachem Kaiser's nonfiction book 'Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure' was announced the 2022 winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
May 19, 2022, 10:16 am
Menachem Kaiser’s memoir on reclaiming his family’s Polish home wins Sami Rohr prize
In debut book, writer recounts efforts to regain ownership of house that belonged to his grandfather before the Holocaust
By Andrew Lapin
In this Monday, Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 26th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration in Los Angeles (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
April 22, 2022, 6:57 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow funds historical signboard at Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland
Actress’s great-great-grandfather immigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States
By JTA
'Dreamworld' cape designed for volunteers with 'Stewardesses of Peace' on the Poland-Ukraine border. Joint project of RISK Made in Warsaw and artist-activist Jana Szostak. (Courtesy of RISK Made in Warsaw)
March 13, 2022, 7:50 am
These heroes wear capes: Warsaw label decks out volunteers aiding Ukrainian refugees
To make helpers easily identifiable on the border, RISK Made in Warsaw’s Antonina Samecka and Klara Kowtun team up with artist-activist to design meaningful uniforms
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Volunteers work together at a Jewish community crisis center in Warsaw. (Toby Axelrod)
March 7, 2022, 4:32 pm
Inside the Jewish response to the mounting Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland
With buses, temporary shelters and lots of phone calls, growing number of Jewish locals and groups join efforts to help countless masses fleeing savage fighting in Ukraine
By Toby Axelrod
Load More
Sign in or Register
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.
Never miss breaking news on Israel
Get notifications to stay updated
You're subscribed
image
Register for free
and continue reading
Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.