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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Anna Maria Jakubek

Promo pic for The Champion of Auschwitz, based on the life of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski (Courtesy)
September 5, 2021, 9:55 am
‘Champion of Auschwitz’: New book tells the story of a boxer who brought hope
Polish Catholic Tadeusz Pietrzykowski won dozens of matches at the death camp, along with special privileges that ensured his and others’ survival
By Anna Maria Jakubek
Director Roman Polanski poses during a photo call to the screening of "Based on a true story" in Paris, France, October 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori,file)
October 15, 2020, 2:33 pm
Yad Vashem to honor Poles who hid Polanski during WWII in Thursday ceremony
Stefania and Jan Buchala to be named Righteous Among the Nations in event in Poland; new documentary will feature director’s 1st meeting with couple’s grandson in 2017
By Anna Maria Jakubek and Ben Simon
Incumbent President Andrzej Duda, left, and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda wave to supporters in Pultusk, Poland, July 12, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 13, 2020, 12:44 pm
Duda: A Polish president loyal to ruling populists
Second term for the 48-year-old improves the governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party’s chances of moving ahead with its agenda
By Stanislaw Waszak and Anna Maria Jakubek
Renia Spiegel smiling in her southern Polish town of Przemysl at the age of 18 in 1942 (FAMILY HANDOUT / ARCHIVE ELIZABETH BELLAK / AFP)
September 30, 2019, 6:24 pm
Teen diarist Renia Spiegel, ‘Poland’s Anne Frank’, gets her due after 80 years
Now being translated into 15 languages, journal describes conditions in Nazi-occupied Przemysl until 18-year-old’s death in 1942, which was recorded by her boyfriend in final entry
By Anna Maria Jakubek
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, attend ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of World War II, in Wielun, Poland, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 1, 2019, 9:23 am
Germany asks for Poland’s forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak
‘We want to remember and we will remember,’ says Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Polish city of Wielun, where first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago
By Anna Maria Jakubek
US President Donald Trump gives a speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Janek Skarzynski)
August 28, 2019, 7:20 pm
Trump heading to Warsaw, 80 years after outbreak of World War II
US president among few leaders planning to attend ceremony in sign of close ties between Warsaw’s right-wing government and his administration
By Anna Maria Jakubek
93-year-old former Polish soldier Wojciech Narebski stands in front of a monument of brown bear Wojtek who was his fellow Polish servicemen during World War II in Krakow on November 14, 2018. (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
January 13, 2019, 6:12 am
True life ‘fairy tale’ of Nazi-fighting bear to get animated treatment
Poland’s Corporal Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear, made his way from Persia, via Palestine, to Europe as a morale booster for troops, and did some heavy lifting as well
By Anna Maria Jakubek
In this file photo taken on June 2, 2018, protesters take part in a demonstration against reforming the minorities education in Latvia in Riga. (AFP Photo/Ilmars Znotins)
June 24, 2018, 8:59 am
Latvia school language reform irks Russian minority, backed by Jewish community
Riga’s chief rabbi throws support behind plan mandating minority schools to teach in Latvian, cites ‘disadvantaged’ Arab students in Israel who study in Arabic
By Imants Liepinsh and Anna Maria Jakubek
The Wounded Table, 1940 by Frida Kahlo (Public domain)
December 4, 2017, 6:27 am
Desperately seeking this Frida Kahlo painting. Last seen in Poland
Exhibition at a Poznan castle, once meant to be a residence for Hitler, spotlights artist’s little known links to Poland… and the mystery of a lost masterpiece
By Anna Maria Jakubek
A drawing by David Olere (Youtube)
September 15, 2017, 9:46 pm
Poland acquires gas chamber paintings by late Holocaust survivor
Thanks to culture ministry’s purchase, Auschwitz museum now has the world’s largest collection of David Olere paintings
By Anna Maria Jakubek
New Zealander film director Niki Caro, left, and US actress Jessica Chastain, who plays the main character, at a press conference prior to the gala screening of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' in Warsaw on March 7, 2017. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
March 8, 2017, 2:37 am
Hollywood stars in Warsaw for Holocaust biopic set in zoo
Jessica Chastain stars in The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on true story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who successfully hid nearly 300 Jews from the Nazis
By Anna Maria Jakubek
French-Polish film director Roman Polanski attending a press conference at the Bonarowski Palace Hotel in Krakow, Poland, October 30, 2015. (Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 4:49 pm
Poland Supreme Court rejects Polanski extradition to US
Ruling means Oscar-winning director won’t be sent to US prison over statutory rape of 13-year-old girl
By Anna Maria Jakubek
French-Polish film director Roman Polanski attending a press conference at the Bonarowski Palace Hotel in Krakow, Poland, October 30, 2015. (Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 12:58 pm
Poland Supreme Court mulls Polanski extradition to US
American request to be reexamined after justice minister ordered review of case to ‘avoid double standards’
By Anna Maria Jakubek
Saul Dreier, right, and Reuwen 'Ruby' Sosnowicz, left, from the Holocaust Survivors Band during a rehearsal before a concert in Warsaw, Poland, July 26, 2016. (AFP/PAP/ JAKUB KAMINSKI)
July 28, 2016, 9:29 am
Holocaust Survivor Band returns home to Poland, pays musical tribute to those who died
Saul Dreier, 91, and Reuwen ‘Ruby’ Sosnowicz, 88, who play klezmer music in Florida and Vegas to honor those killed in Nazi death camps, draw a crowd on site of Warsaw Ghetto
By Anna Maria Jakubek
The first American troops arrive at the airport in Swidwin, Poland, on April 23, 2014, as part of an initial force of 600 soldiers the US sent to the Baltic states. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
April 24, 2014, 2:24 am
In ‘message to Moscow,’ US troops land in Poland
‘We have no better guarantor than the United States’ for military security, says Polish PM
By Anna Maria Jakubek
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