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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Warsaw Jewish Community

Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
Ukrainian refugee children gather outside the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
July 30, 2022, 11:16 am
In Warsaw, Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp
Volunteers draw on Jewish experiences with suffering to aid refugee children traumatized by war and help them prepare for a new school year in Poland
By Vanessa Gera
Warsaw's Jewish community held a funeral for an unidentified Holocaust victim, after human remains were recently discovered in an area that belonged to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
September 14, 2021, 8:26 pm
Polish Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto
Bones believed to belong to Holocaust victim; ‘After nearly 80 years this unknown person got his dignity back,’ says community chair
By Vanessa Gera
People walk through a wooden 17th century synagogue once located in Gwozdziec, a formerly Polish town now in Ukraine, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jew in Warsaw, Poland, October 21, 2014. (Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press)
February 12, 2020, 12:41 pm
To break Warsaw Jewish museum impasse, elected director agrees to give up post
Dariusz Stola ran afoul of Polish authorities for criticizing their policies, including controversial Holocaust speech law; says willing to cede his right to head POLIN institution
By Vanessa Gera
US President Donald Trump gestures while answering a question during a joint press conference with Poland's President Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 13, 2019, 12:29 am
White House refuses to say if Trump will visit Warsaw Ghetto in Poland
In July 2017 trip, US president angered Polish and American Jews by skipping site of Jewish uprising in move seen as pandering to nationalist government
By Eric Cortellessa
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, which was destroyed by the German forces during World War II, was recreated virtually with light as part of anniversary commemorations of the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, April 18, 2019. The multimedia installation, which included the archival recordings of a prewar cantor killed in the Holocaust, is the work of Polish artist Gabi von Seltmann. It was organized by a group that fights anti-Semitism. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2019, 4:29 pm
Warsaw’s Great Synagogue ‘reappears’ on anniversary of 1943 ghetto revolt
For two hours, grand building with its Greek-style columns, blown up by the Germans 76 years ago, is returned virtually to a city where most traces of Jewish life have gone
By Vanessa Gera
Illustrative: The Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)
From the WebApril 18, 2019, 10:33 pm
100 families to celebrate seder in Warsaw Ghetto for first time since 1943
Historic Passover meal to be held on the 76th anniversary of WWII uprising, the Jewish News reports
Yoram Sztykgold examines the unpublished registry from 1939 that helped him locate his family’s assets at a military library in Warsaw, Sept. 4, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 8, 2018, 1:37 am
A 1939 phone book could be key to unlocking Polish Holocaust restitution money
Holocaust survivors and their descendants can now prove ownership of properties seized during WWII, allowing them to open claims for compensation for the loss of their assets
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The old Warsaw Jewish Theater building. (Wikimedia Commons/Tadeusz Rudzk)
August 30, 2018, 10:24 pm
Warsaw gives its Jewish theater $41m to build new home
‘I promise we will make something special here,’ director Gołda Tencer says of ambitious five-year building plan
By JTA
German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland, September 1939. (Public domain, US National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia commons)
September 4, 2017, 8:33 am
Warsaw marks anniversary of WWII with Shabbat dinner
Hundreds of mostly non-Jews take part in public Friday night meal in town square commemorating 78 years since outbreak of war
By JTA
At the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. (photo credit: Kuba Wyszynski/JTA)
August 21, 2017, 12:41 pm
Volunteers from 7 countries clear historic Jewish cemetery in Poland
Overgrown burial ground in Warsaw contains 80,000 graves; workers will take part in events related to community’s culture
By JTA
In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, speaks with lawmakers in parliament in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
August 10, 2017, 7:08 pm
Polish Jews ask ruling party to denounce rising anti-Semitism
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Law and Justice party, has not responded to request sent in letter a week earlier
By AP
Golda Tencer, standing, at a Shabbat dinner during the International Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture, July 7, 2017. (Katarzyna Markusz/JTA)
July 30, 2017, 7:08 pm
Yiddish comes alive in Warsaw every summer
Now in its 15th year, the International Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture brings students back to one of the language’s great centers
By Katarzyna Markusz
US President Donald Trump is met by a guard of honor after he stepped off Air Force One upon arrival at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, Poland, July 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
July 6, 2017, 3:18 am
Jewish leaders protest Trump decision to skip Warsaw Ghetto memorial
As president visits Poland, community leaders highlight a troubling ‘break in tradition’
By AFP
Warsaw skyline (Pixabay)
February 23, 2017, 2:40 am
Warsaw lists properties that pre-WWII owners can reclaim
Any listings not claimed in six months pass to city ownership; Jewish Holocaust restitution group urges extended deadline
By Vanessa Gera
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