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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Warsaw

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
The Umschlagplatz Memorial, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2023. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP / File)
January 7, 2025, 8:27 pm
‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital
Israel envoy denounces graffiti as ‘shameful vandalism,’ calls on Poland to hold perpetrators accountable for crime
By ToI Staff
Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
A police officer at the scene of an incident in the Polish capital city of Warsaw, October 14, 2023.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
November 21, 2023, 12:56 pm
Suspected Islamist woman arrested for planting explosive device on Warsaw street
38-year-old Polish suspect holds Islamist extremist sympathies and was found to have photo of Osama bin Laden in her home
By AP
Demonstrators react as Polish opposition leader, former premier and head of the centrist Civic Coalition bloc, Donald Tusk (not pictured) addresses participants of a rally in Warsaw on October 1, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
October 2, 2023, 7:44 pm
Ahead of elections, a record one million Poles hold anti-government protest in Warsaw
Right-wing Law and Justice party holds eight-point lead over Civic Coalition bloc, but opposition leaders say gap is shrinking
By Magdalena Paciorek
Thousands of people gather in Warsaw for a yearly Independence Day march organized by nationalist groups that has been marked by violence in past years in Poland, Nov. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
November 13, 2022, 8:56 am
Polish Independence Day march features Nazi symbol, calls to burn Jews
Opposition lawmakers slam police for detaining anti-fascist activists in Warsaw but not reacting to Nazi symbol; in Krakow, crowd chants, ‘Down with the Jewish occupation’
By Vanessa Gera
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev is covered with red paint in Warsaw, Poland, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Maciek Luczniewski)
May 9, 2022, 3:04 pm
Anti-war activists throw red paint at Russian ambassador to Poland
During Victory Day at Soviet Soldiers Cemetery in Warsaw, protesters prevent envoy and others from laying flowers on graves
By AP
'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
Refugees from the war in Ukraine seek shelter at a sports center in Warsaw, Poland, on March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 12, 2022, 1:27 am
Warsaw overwhelmed as it becomes key destination for Ukrainian refugees
Over a tenth of those fleeing Russian invasion have arrived in Polish capital; mayor appeals for international help: ‘The greatest migration crisis’ in Europe since WWII
By Vanessa Gera
COVID-19 vaccination opponents protest in front of the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, against the new restrictions introduced in Poland (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
December 16, 2021, 7:00 am
Polish anti-vaccination rally jeered for use of Holocaust imagery
Top Israeli diplomat, Auschwitz Museum condemn Confederation party after protest features ‘Vaccination Makes You Free’ sign intended to mimic infamous slogan at death camp gate
By AFP
Poland's lawmakers after voting – some in parliament, some remotely – in Warsaw, Poland, on May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 13, 2021, 1:44 am
Poland gives money to group led by student who made antisemitic remarks
Website run by Konrad Smuniewski, who was suspended from University of Warsaw for hate speech, to get $50,000 grant from government
By Katarzyna Markusz
Participants lay a wreath and flowers in front of a monument dedicated to the underground archives of the Jewish ghetto, during its unveiling ceremony at the site where the Ringelblum Archive was hidden during Nazi occupation during the Second World War, in Warsaw, on April 19, 2021. (Wojtek RADWANSKI/ AFP)
April 19, 2021, 10:38 pm
Monument unveiled to remember Warsaw Ghetto’s buried archive of anguish
Installation marks spot where collection of documents recording horrors of daily life was hidden underground from Nazis, and recovered after the Holocaust
By Bernard OSSER
10 sets of tefillin that the Shem Olam Holocaust museum said were found in Warsaw, Poland. (Courtesy of Shem Olam Faith & the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation & Research via JTA)
January 26, 2021, 8:43 pm
Israeli Holocaust museum accused of smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw
After Shem Olam museum near Hadera obtains 10 sets of phylacteries found by construction workers, Polish city says it had no knowledge of discovery
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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