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Supporter of the far-right movement Oboz Narodowo Radykalny (National Radical Camp) wearing a cape reading 'Anti-Antifa. Good night left side' attends the 'March of Independence,' on November 11, 2018, in Warsaw to mark 100 years of Polish independence. (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
November 11, 2018, 8:00 pm
Polish leaders march with far-right groups to mark Independence Day
At event attended by 200,000, president, prime minister appear alongside nationalists brandishing fascist symbols
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera
In this photo from November 11, 2017, demonstrators burn flares and wave Polish flags during the annual march to commemorate Poland's National Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 10, 2018, 5:48 pm
Polish leaders to join anti-Semitic nationalist at Independence Day march Sunday
Participation of Poland’s president, PM in event is announced by far-right leader who has called Jews a ‘fifth column’
By Vanessa Gera
In this photo from November 11, 2017, demonstrators burn flares and wave Polish flags during the annual march to commemorate Poland's National Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 8, 2018, 12:18 am
Poland blocks far-right march, will instead hold inclusive event
‘Warsaw has suffered enough because of aggressive nationalism,’ city’s mayor says, notes main organizer of event is the head of a group with anti-Semitic roots
By Vanessa Gera
Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, stands in front of the former hospital that will house the museum which is under creation and scheduled to open in 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
October 19, 2018, 11:36 pm
Poland hands over site of future Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Involvement of the government has made some critics and Jews fear officials may try to distort history
By Vanessa Gera
In this photo taken on August 29, 2018, Steven Reece, an ordained Southern Baptist minister who lives near Atlanta cleans an old Jewish cemetery in Rohatyn, the site of a Jewish Heritage project, close to Lviv, Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Yevheniy Kravs)
September 14, 2018, 2:04 pm
Texan baptist pastor finds calling in restoring post-Holocaust Jewish cemeteries
Steven Reece says his preservation of Polish and Ukrainian graves is driven by a desire for justice, inspired by Martin Luther King
By Vanessa Gera and DMITRY VLASOV
William Hahne, vice chairman of the far-right "Alternative For Sweden" party, speaks at a campaign meeting in Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (Erik Simander/TT News Agency via AP)
September 8, 2018, 5:37 pm
On election eve, Swedish PM slams ‘Nazi and racist roots’ of far-right party
The Sweden Democrats, a party rooted in a neo-Nazi movement, is riding an immigration backlash in the first elections since Stockholm allowed in 163,000 migrants
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Vanessa Gera
The July 1941 pogrom in Lviv (or Lvov), in Ukraine, when 4,000 Jews were massacred (public domain)
September 2, 2018, 5:41 pm
Ukrainian city remembers slain Jews on Holocaust anniversary
Ceremony in city of Lviv, once home to the third-largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, comes amid efforts to preserve memory of murdered population
By Vanessa Gera, Randy Herschaft and YEVHEN KRAVTS
A visitor looks at a photograph documenting Jewish life in Poland from the 1970s, in Warsaw, Poland, August 8, 2018. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
August 9, 2018, 11:55 am
Photo exhibit documents revival of Polish Jewish life
Chuck Fishman photographed communities in the 1970s and 1980s believing they were about to die out, but the fall of Communism brought a unexpected resurgence
By Vanessa Gera
In this Monday, May 30, 2005 photo, Irena Sendler, right, a Polish woman who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, meets with American students who created a play about her life, in Warsaw, Poland. The students' teacher, Norman Conard, is being honored by the Polish government and San Francisco based Taube Philanthropies in Warsaw on Monday, June 11, 2018, for his role in making Sendler's story known to the world. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 12, 2018, 1:02 am
US teacher honored for highlighting Polish Holocaust hero
Kansas educator produced play about Irene Sendler, credited with saving hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto
By Vanessa Gera and TOI staff
Buildings in Lower Manhattan provide a backdrop to a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre of 1940, on May 4, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
May 9, 2018, 6:30 pm
Dispute over Jersey statue commemorating Polish massacre heats up
Memorial to 1940 Katyn tragedy being moved for renovations amid fears the action is revenge for Poland’s Holocaust bill
By David Porter and Vanessa Gera
In this photo taken on April 19, 2016 people gather in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising monument holding daffodils to mark the Warsaw Ghetto uprising's 73th anniversary. (AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)
April 19, 2018, 12:28 pm
With daffodils, Poland marks 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
As Poles wear paper flowers as symbol of mourning, survivor says he is ‘terrified by the rebirth of fascism and nationalism’ in country
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera
In this photo taken Thursday, March 15, 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sings along with performers wearing traditional outfits at the end of his speech outside the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
April 3, 2018, 6:19 pm
Far-right, Nazi apologist views going mainstream in much of Central Europe
In many places, the shift rightward has included rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators and a rise in anti-Semitic and anti-minority statements by officials
By Vanessa Gera and DUSAN STOJANOVIC
In this photo taken March 13, 2018, Jan Gross, a Holocaust scholar who has been a catalyst for historical debates about Polish behavior during the Holocaust, speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 28, 2018, 2:51 pm
Poland is trying to ‘gag’ history, says Holocaust historian who triggered debate
Professor Jan Gross, who angered many Poles by studying Polish violence against Jews, warns legislation will prevent young people from exploring topic
By Vanessa Gera
Former Polish politician Kornel Morawiecki (CC BY-SA Kornel Morawiecki Election Committee, Wikimedia Commons)
March 22, 2018, 1:02 pm
Polish government distances itself from PM’s father
Kornel Morawiecki, a lawmaker himself, alleges Poland’s Jews entered ghettos voluntarily during the Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
A visitor explores a new exhibition devoted to an anti-Semitic campaign in Poland in 1968 that was the main reaction of the communist regime in power at the time to a student rebellion in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, March 9, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 9, 2018, 5:48 pm
Exhibit explores persecution of Jews amid brutal response to 1968 Polish revolt
In ‘Estranged: March ’68 and its Aftermath,’ POLIN Museum highlights anti-Semitic campaign that turned half of Poland’s surviving Jews into refugees
By Vanessa Gera
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