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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

Nissan Tzur

Yaki Gantz (kneeling, far right) and a Bezeq-sponsored delegation at a ceremony in Poland in July to dedicate a new gravemarker for Jews killed in the Holocaust who were buried in Christian graves. (photo credit: Nissan Tsur)
December 1, 2013, 4:20 pm
Former intel agent discovers Jews in mass ‘Christian’ graves
Guide Yaki Gantz is using his secret service past to help piece together the identities of Holocaust victims in unmarked graves in small cemeteries across Poland
By Nissan Tzur
Historian Jan Grabowski. (photo credit: courtesy)
October 31, 2013, 10:50 am
New book examines Poles who killed Jews during WWII
A history professor records the massacres of Jews by their neighbors in his native Poland, until now a little-told chapter of Holocaust history
By Nissan Tzur
Aroma offers outside seating during Poland's brief summer. (photo credit: Nissan Tzur/Times of Israel)
August 14, 2013, 9:32 pm
All roads lead to Aroma — even in Poland
Popular Israeli coffee chain is conquering the country one city at a time, but keeping its home nation in the background
By Nissan Tzur
The interior of Hamsa Hummus & Happiness Israeli Restobar. (photo credit: Nissan Tsur/Times of Israel)
June 27, 2013, 4:13 pm
Hummus and shakshuka on the streets of Krakow
Why are three Poles running an Israeli restaurant? To promote world peace, of course
By Nissan Tzur
'Hidden Jews' praying at a Warsaw synagogue. (photo credit: Nissan Tsur)
April 11, 2013, 4:52 pm
Reigniting the flame of Judaism… in Auschwitz
Participants in a Hidden Jews seminar last weekend in Oswiecim, Poland only discovered their Jewishness recently, but it won’t be easily extinguished
By Nissan Tzur
Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz (photo credit: Polish Photography Agency/Polska Agencja Fotografów)
April 9, 2013, 4:49 pm
Respected Polish professor reveals anti-Semitic views
Polish pogroms ‘were mostly motivated by great fear of the Jews,’ Polish-Jewish relations expert Krzysztof Jasiewicz says
By Nissan Tzur
An image of Tadeusz Pankiewicz adorns a display in Krakow's newly refurbished Pharmacy Under the Eagle. (Courtesy of Monika Bednarek/Historical Museum of Krakow)
March 31, 2013, 11:41 am
Pharmacy that aided Jews in Krakow Ghetto reopens
The only gentile-owned business to operate in the area, the Pharmacy Under the Eagle is now a museum
By Nissan Tzur
February 26, 2013, 7:33 pm
Threats against Polish officials cite ‘Jewish mafia’
A supporter of an embattled Catholic TV channel claims the country’s president and prime minister are part of a Jewish plot
By Nissan Tzur
Minorities and advocacy groups in the Polish city of Lublin have objected to the way African immigrants and Jews were depicted on tickets for public transportation. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Lublin)
December 5, 2012, 8:09 pm
Poles call off unintentionally racist, anti-Semitic tolerance campaign
Critics claim tickets for public transportation in Lublin — intended to promote co-existence — instead propagate hostile stereotypes
By Nissan Tzur
December 4, 2012, 11:44 pm
‘Righteous gentiles’ honored in Poland
Israeli ambassador confers posthumous recognition to men and women who saved Jews during the Holocaust
By Nissan Tzur
"Aftermath" star Maciej Stuhr claims he has received death threats after playing a Polish Catholic who learns about the wartime slaughter of Jews in his hometown. (Courtesy of Apple Film Productions)
November 30, 2012, 9:22 pm
Poles release first film admitting responsibility for infamous anti-Jewish massacre
‘Aftermath,’ a drama inspired by the mass killings at Jedwabne, elicits praise and anger by examining Poles’ role in the bloodshed
By Nissan Tzur
Residents of Hitler's hometown fear that his former house could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis if sold to the wrong buyer. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)
November 12, 2012, 6:17 pm
Russian MP wants to buy Hitler’s first home — so he can destroy it
Frantz Klintsevich, a member of Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, has launched a campaign to raise $2.8 million to purchase the dictator’s Austrian birthplace
By Nissan Tzur
Additions to Poland's tiny Reform community prepare to toast the end of their conversion process Oct. 11, 2012 in Krakow. (Photo credit: Nissan Tzur)
November 4, 2012, 6:17 pm
Recent converts offer a glimpse of Judaism’s appeal in Poland
Though their ranks remain small, growing numbers of Catholic Poles are embracing a religion nearly erased from their homeland
By Nissan Tzur
Sisters Clila (left) and Hadasa Bau, seen on Israeli television, were in Poland for a tribute to their father when Clila became the target of an alleged anti-Semitic tirade. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
October 25, 2012, 5:23 pm
Daughter of ‘Schindler Jew’ claims she was target of anti-Semitic abuse in Poland
Police are investigating accusations of verbal harassment, Holocaust denial against Krakow taxi driver
By Nissan Tzur
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