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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Katarzyna Markusz

Katarzyna Markusz

Marchers at a rally in Glogow, Poland, July 18, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
July 22, 2021, 12:50 pm
Polish anti-vaccine protesters chant Jews are to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic
Some marchers though city of Glogow declare that ‘Jews rule the world’ and Holocaust restitution claims will take away their homes
By Katarzyna Markusz
A Polish nationalist holds a sign reading "We demand the truth about Jedwabne," at the site of a Holocaust pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)
July 15, 2021, 9:36 pm
Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims
Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says protests at memorial for Jedwabne pogrom point to a ‘very serious issue’ involving Polish government’s stance on Holocaust memory
By Katarzyna Markusz
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
The Catholic University of Lublin (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 10, 2021, 6:57 am
Polish university calls anti-Semitic blood libel claims ‘scientific discourse’
Catholic institution decides not to punish priest and faculty member who said Jews practice ‘ritual murders’
By Katarzyna Markusz
A group of Holocaust survivors transport a covered coffin with the remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims to be buried at the United Synagogue's New Cemetery in Bushey, England, January 20, 2019. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
March 18, 2021, 5:21 am
Scholars propose Holocaust Survivors’ Day
Plan to honor those who survived would be in addition to days commemorating the victims of Nazi atrocities
By Katarzyna Markusz
Toppled headstones at the Jewish cemetery of Zabrze, Poland on September 11, 2020. (Dariusz Walerjański via JTA)
September 15, 2020, 7:57 am
Tombstones vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Poland
Around 20 headstones damaged in third case of vandalism at Polish Jewish graveyard this month
By Katarzyna Markusz
One of the documents found in the shoes belonging to victims of Auschwitz camp, July 2020. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum via JTA)
July 22, 2020, 10:56 am
Identifying inscriptions are discovered in shoes of children sent to Auschwitz
Death camp museum employees say one pair belonged to Amos Steinberg, born in 1938; they hope more detailed research will reveal details about each individual
By Katarzyna Markusz
A grave at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland. (Emmanuel Dyan/Flickr via JTA)
June 16, 2020, 6:50 am
Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint
Letters ‘AJ,’ likely meaning ‘anti-Jewish,’ sprayed on wall of historical graveyard in city of Tarnow; site was also defaced last year
By Katarzyna Markusz
Rafal Ziemkiewicz at the Warsaw Book Fair, May 21, 2017. (Maciej Gillert/Gallo Images Poland/Getty Images via JTA)
June 5, 2020, 5:33 am
Right-wing Polish journalist calls Jews ‘ruthless’, Holocaust ‘a myth’ in book
Anti-Semitism watchdog calls new text by Rafal Ziemkiewicz a criminal example of hate speech based on nationality
By Katarzyna Markusz
Stolperstein Holocaust memorials, or stumbling stones, in front of an apartment building in the Rome Ghetto. (Marcy Oster via JTA)
December 23, 2019, 9:46 pm
Polish city refuses to install memorial stones for Holocaust victims
Szczecin city architect tells Jewish woman who asked to commemorate her father with ‘Stolpersteine’ that passersby might think the perpetrators of the Nazi crimes were Poles
By Katarzyna Markusz
Polish President Andrzej Duda during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019, at the United Nations in New York City. (Don Emmert/AFP)
October 28, 2019, 6:02 am
Polish president withholds signature on paper to name Jewish scholar a professor
Michal Bilewicz deals with the study of modern anti-Semitism and has been criticized by some Polish right-wing politicians
By Katarzyna Markusz
Vandals painted a swastika and anti-Semitic slur on one of the remaining walls of the former Krakow Ghetto on Oct. 1, 2019. (Courtesy of Jonathan Ornstein via JTA)
October 3, 2019, 5:36 am
Swastika, anti-Semitic slur painted on wall of former Krakow Ghetto
‘Whores Jews, get the f*** out of Poland’ daubed on wall on second day of Rosh Hashanah; police say no suspects
By Katarzyna Markusz
Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Jacek Czaputowicz,right, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shake hands at a news conference at Lazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland, February 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 6, 2019, 6:13 pm
Senators urge Pompeo to press Poland over Holocaust property restitution
US lawmakers say urgent action needed ‘while the last Holocaust survivors are still alive’; Warsaw resisted previous attempt by secretary of state to push for reform
By Katarzyna Markusz
Vandalism at the newly renovated Jewish cemetery in Tarnow in southern Poland, July 2019. The graffiti reads, 'Jews eat children. Jadowniki eat Jews.' Jadowniki is a nearby village. (Facebook/Natalia Gancarz/via JTA)
July 22, 2019, 11:04 pm
Historic Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized a month after rededication
Graffiti at newly renovated site in Tarnow in southern Poland reads ‘Jews eat children’; official calls incident ‘result of anti-Semitism and deep depravity’
By Katarzyna Markusz
Marchers wave an Israeli flag in Warsaw's Pride Parade, June 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 11, 2019, 2:12 am
Jewish community participates in Warsaw Pride Parade for first time
Contingent of Jews bearing Israeli flags joins march to support ‘fight against hatred’ in Poland
By Katarzyna Markusz
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