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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 349

Michel VIATTEAU

A Celtic Cross is seen on a banner with the Polish and Ukrainian national colors, as participants attend Poland's Independence Day march organized by nationalist groups in Warsaw on November 11, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
November 12, 2022, 9:16 am
Ukraine features prominently as far-right Poles stage Independence Day march
‘Hitler is dead but Putin is alive and he is repeating history with the Ukrainians,’ says marcher in Warsaw; ultra-nationalist group rails at ‘Ukrainization of Poland’
By Michel VIATTEAU
Zofia Burchacinska, an eyewitness to the bombing of Wielun, holds a picture of the destroyed town on August 20, 2019. (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
August 28, 2019, 7:51 am
Nazi bombs still vivid for survivors of ‘Polish-Jewish Guernica’
20 residents of city of Wielun remember 1939 German bombardment that killed hundreds of its 16,000 population — of which a third were Jewish
By Michel VIATTEAU
Illustrative: The German words 'Jude Raus' (Jew, get out) are written on the building of the Citizens of Poland (Obywatele RP) movement on February 26, 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
March 4, 2019, 7:57 am
Polish anti-Semitism festers on the internet
‘The old stereotypes are resurfacing,’ says prominent member of Jewish community as nation faces resurgent nationalist right
By Michel VIATTEAU
A March 1968 black and white photo showing people running away as police attack near the Warsaw University during student riots. The 1968 student riots in Poland ended with an anti-Semitic campaign by the communist regime that drove an estimated 15,000 Jews from Poland. (AP Photo/PAP/CAF-Tadeusz Zagozdzinski, file)
March 6, 2018, 11:39 am
50 years on, Poles recall student revolt that sparked anti-Semitic purge
Besieged by pro-democracy protests, Poland’s communist regime turned to ‘the dirtiest weapon, anti-Semitism,’ ex-dissident says
By Michel VIATTEAU
Film director Roman Polanski, accompanied by his lawyers, arrives for a hearing in Krakow on February 25, 2015. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
May 31, 2016, 12:06 pm
Poland relaunches move to extradite Polanski to US
Justice minister seeks to reverse court’s anti-extradition decision so director can be sentenced for 1977 rape
By Michel VIATTEAU
Polish actor Jacek Kawalec poses at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on April 26, 2016. (AFP/PAP/Jakub Kaminski)
May 1, 2016, 4:02 am
John Paul II Superstar: Poland plans papal musical
‘Karol,’ a tale of the pontiff’s life, set to premiere in February 2017 with a cast of nearly 100
By Michel VIATTEAU
Jozef Jarosz looks on March 16, 2016 into an underground hideout in Stankowa, Poland, where he and his family helped Anna Grygiel and 13 other Jews to survive the Holocaust and WWII. (AFP / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)
March 17, 2016, 5:50 pm
Polish hole that hid 14 Jews during Holocaust to become memorial
Hideout in the southern village of Stankowa is a dank, stone-lined hole measuring 5 by 2.5 meters (16 by 8 foot)
By Michel VIATTEAU
Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 22, 2015, 7:44 pm
Poles bristle at lingering stigma of the Holocaust
Warsaw is still extremely sensitive to how its wartime history is presented in the West
By Michel VIATTEAU
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