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Bernard OSSER

File: The name of the Wiktoria i Jozef Ulma is seen on the wall commemorating Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the opening ceremony of The Ulma Family Museum Of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa, Poland, March 17, 2014. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 7:54 pm
Beatification of righteous Poles helping leaders downplay Holocaust role — experts
Historians warn Warsaw using celebration of family who died rescuing Jews to prop up image and ignore collaboration with Nazis
By Bernard OSSER
Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 17, 2023, 12:06 pm
‘Burning all around’: Warsaw Ghetto survivors recall uprising 80 years on
Nazis confined up to 450,000 Jews in area of just over 3 square kilometers; in April 1943 hundreds of Jewish fighters rose up, preferring to die fighting than in gas chambers
By Bernard OSSER and Michael Blum
German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)
September 1, 2022, 9:57 pm
Germany rebuffs Polish demand for huge WWII reparations: ‘Issue is closed’
Berlin points to 1953 decision by Warsaw to renounce claims against East Germany; Polish opposition parties dismiss government’s claim as a domestic political ploy
By Bernard OSSER
Dead fish on the banks of the river Oder in Schwedt, eastern Germany, on August 12, 2022, after a massive fish kill was discovered in the river in the eastern federal state of Brandenburg, close to the border with Poland. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
August 14, 2022, 3:40 am
‘Dead fish everywhere’ in German-Polish river after suspected chemical waste dump
Thousands of fish wash up dead on banks of Oder river, as Berlin warns of ‘environmental disaster’ and accuses Warsaw of failing to take timely action
By Hui Min NEO and Bernard OSSER
The leader of PiS Party, Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks during a campaign convention in Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2019, (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 14, 2021, 12:31 am
Poland’s ruling populists risk isolation in bid to stay in power
Law and Justice party manages to pass controversial media ownership law and bill restricting claims on properties seized after WWII, which has strained relations with Israel
By Bernard OSSER
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
In this May 8, 2008 file photo Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist from New Jersey, takes a look at name registers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany. Germany’s International Center on Nazi Persecution has uploaded some 850,000 documents with information on ten million people collected after the end of World War II in the American occupied zone of Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
March 24, 2021, 10:47 am
Archives uncover forgotten names of Auschwitz inmates
Researchers find previously unknown identities of an estimated 4,000 prisoners and information about 26,000 others
By Bernard OSSER
The Polish academic edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (L) is seen next to an original edition of the book from 1942 (R) on the table of Eugeniusz Cezary Król, author of the translation and historical commentary of the academic edition, in his flat in Warsaw, on January 15, 2021. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
January 18, 2021, 3:54 pm
Mein Kampf academic edition published in Poland as ‘homage to victims’
Publishers won’t hold publicity campaign for translation of Hitler’s 1925 book and have set a high price to ensure it isn’t widely accessible
By Bernard OSSER
Contender in Poland's key presidential election runoff Sunday, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski greets supporters during a campaign rally, in Raciaz, Poland, on July 9, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 11, 2020, 9:57 am
Rafal Trzaskowski, the Europhile with sights on Polish presidency
Warsaw mayor describes himself as ‘pro-Semitic,’ was attacked in state TV report accusing him of failing to defend national interest by not ruling out Jewish compensation claims
By Bernard OSSER
This file photo taken on December 5, 2019, shows a man walking by the barbed wire fence enclosing the memorial site of the former Auschwitz German Nazi death camp. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
April 15, 2020, 8:18 pm
Auschwitz online: Raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age
Social media has become an important tool for the memorial museum, which hopes to teach a wider audience about the horrors of the Nazi genocide
By Bernard OSSER
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk smiles after winning the Man Booker International prize 2018, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, for her book Flights, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. (Matt Crossick//PA via AP)
May 23, 2018, 10:07 am
Polish winner of Man Booker Prize chronicles little-known Jewish sect’s history
With a style mixing real with mystical and books on human anatomy and Frankism, Olga Tokarczuk is considered the country’s most talented novelist of her generation
By Bernard OSSER
Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor, Krystyna Budnicka poses on April 16, 2018 in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
April 18, 2018, 5:53 am
75 years after Warsaw ghetto’s end, survivor recalls losing family in uprising
Krystyna Budnicka lost all seven siblings in the Holocaust; she made it out alive by hiding in an underground bunker and then in the Polish capital’s sewer system
By Bernard OSSER
A milk jug on display at the Permanent Exhibition 'What We Were Unable To Shout Out To The World' of the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, a few days before its public opening in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, November 13, 2017. (AFP/Wojtek RADWANSKI)
November 14, 2017, 2:48 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Jews’ secret archive goes on display
Thousands of documents including newspapers, ration coupons, postcards, and medical prescriptions were stashed away in milk jugs
By Bernard OSSER
Przemyslaw Wierzbowski, Esperanto association president in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok and French student Amelie Chartier, who came to Bialystok to work at the Esperanto association through a European volunteer program stand in the Esperanto Cafe in front of the portrait of Ludwik Zamenhof on April 5, 2017. Zamenhof, the creator of the synthetic language of Esperanto, was born in 1859 just a few steps away from where the cafe is located. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
April 13, 2017, 5:07 pm
Esperanto alive and well, 100 years after Jewish inventor’s death
International language created by hopeful doctor is now spoken by 1 million worldwide
By Bernard OSSER
This picture taken on December 2, 2016, in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland, shows barracks at the former Nazi concentration camp.(AFP/Bartosz Siedlik)
January 13, 2017, 6:37 am
Unprecedented work underway to preserve Auschwitz
Conservators face challenge of preserving horrible reality of Nazi concentration camp over 70 years after it was built
By Bernard OSSER
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