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'Attempt to reshape historical narrative': IDF delegation at Auschwitz told to lower Israeli flags

A visiting IDF delegation was stopped at entrance to Aushwitz-Birkenau and forced to remove Israeli flags mid-ceremony by local law enforcement.

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.
 Far-right European Parliament member from Poland, Grzegorz Braun, looks on during the first plenary session of the newly elected parliament in Strasbourg, France, July 16, 2024.

Right-wing Polish legislator says gas chambers fake, Auschwitz pushes 'psuedo history'

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.

The comeback of the conservative-sovereigntist Right in Poland - analysis

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.

Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot


'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Yacov Livne, Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, described Jewish life in Poland today, relations with Israel, and the attempts to rewrite the past.

 YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

European Parliament suspends MEP who disrupted Holocaust moment of silence

European Parliament Member Grzegorz Braun was suspended for thirty days from the European Parliament after disrupting the moment of silence "for the next victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza."

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity - opinion

Nuance is in order regarding Poland and its Jews; Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal calls for a reevaluation of Jews’ attitudes toward Poles, as well as Poles’ understanding of Jews. 

 OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Honoring Jewish lives: Remembering Operation Reinhard in Lublin

Before the Holocaust, Lublin was considered as “Jerusalem of the North.”

 Professor Sabina Bober at the monument the the victims of the hospitals’ massacre next to Lublin

'A disgraceful act': Officials condemn vandalism of Warsaw Ghetto monument

Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne condemned the vandalism and called on authorities to properly investigate the incident. 

 Warsaw Ghetto monument vandalized in Poland.

‘Jews to the gas chambers’: Pro-Palestinian poster at Polish university draws condemnations

Police are investigating the poster, which was discovered among an array of pro-Palestinian banners.

'Jews to the gas chambers' poster found at Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Poland.

Jewish leader bashes former PM's denial of Poland's Holocaust role

"I say to the former Prime Minister: You cannot control the past. You must live with it, and learn from it. Go and learn,” Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Germans alone responsible for Holocaust, no Polish involvement - Former Polish PM says

Morawiecki's statements on the Holocaust, particularly his 2018 remarks suggesting multiple nationalities, including Jews, were perpetrators, sparked significant backlash.

Poland's former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish city throws children’s bubble party on top of Jewish graves

The former cemetery, now a children’s play area next to an elementary school, was demolished roughly 50 years ago, but the bodies were not removed.

A Jewish cemetery (illustrative)

Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium

Grzegorz Braun, of the Confederation party, later said he disrupted the event to defend Poland’s good name against Grabowski’s “historical propaganda.” 

Grzegorz Braun, far-right MP and one of the leaders of Confederation Liberty and Independence, and Justyna Socha, one of anti-vaccination movement STOP NOP leaders, walk during a rally against measures imposed by the Polish government to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease in Warsaw

Polish gov't attack on Holocaust historian slammed by academia

More than 300 academics and institutions around the world issued a statement condemning the Polish government-led attacks against Polish historian Barbara Engelking.

 Barbara Engelking is leading scholar on Polish-Jewish history during the Holocaust.