Poland antisemitism

‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’: Polish MP's speech outside Auschwitz stirs outrage

Braun, the head of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, made the comments on Saturday amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism.

 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.
LAPD surrounds students protesting in support of Palestinians at an encampment at the University of Southern California’s Alumni Park, in Los Angeles, California, US, April 24, 2024

LAPD increases patrols around synagogues starting Rosh Hashanah, during Holy Days

Rabbi Tanya Segal stands in the courtyard of 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025.

Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust

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.

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


US Jewish group pulls 'Polish Holocaust' video after causing outcry

The answer to the ‘Polish Holocaust Bill,’ is not inflammatory, hateful rhetoric such as this but, rather, discussion and dialogue based on facts,” said the executive director of JCC Krakow.

screenshot from the suspended Ruderman Family Foundation campaign video

Polish minister says backs idea to create "Polocaust" museum

This month, Poland approved a law that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

In open letter, Polish Jews say they don't feel safe in Poland

Antisemitic threats have moved from the confines of the Internet to the public sphere, and Polish Jews now fear for their physical wellbeing.

People wear Israeli flags around their shoulders as they walk on the railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland April 8, 2013.

Scrubbing the Nazi stain

If we are tempted to think that what happens in Poland is of little consequence to those of us sheltered a few thousand miles away, we must think again.

PARTICIPANTS WALK in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual ‘March of the Living,’ during Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, in April last year. (Jakub Porzycki/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters)

As I See It: Poland unleashes its own inner demons

Poland has constructed a historical narrative about its behavior toward the Jews, which is false.

SUPPORTERS OF the Polish National Radical Camp Party gather in support of the Holocaust bill in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, February 2018

Poland revels in poking at the dying embers of Jew hatred

We shudder to think what could possibly come out of Poland next, a country that is well and truly positioning itself outside of the pale.

Protesters light flares and carry Polish flags during a rally, organised by far-right, nationalist groups, to mark 99th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2017

For Poland’s and our truth

It is repugnant to assign to an entire people the collective moral responsibility for the crimes of individuals committed without legitimate authority.

Polish President Andrzej Duda touches the Western Wall during a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem January 17, 2017

Poland’s Shoah policy – precursor to a new Holocaust revisionism?

A precursor to a new Holocaust revisionism?

‘SHOES’ STARTS out with a pair of women’s shoes in a store window and follows their journey all the way to Auschwitz (pictured).

Pressure mounts on Poland to back away from Holocaust bill

Antisemitism has resurfaced amid the debate over a bill that would criminalize suggesting complicity on the part of the Polish nation or state in Nazi Germany's crimes.

Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in the snow

Israel's embassy in Poland receives wave of antisemitic messages after Holocaust bill

"We hope that over 30 years of work and dedication of wonderful people, both in Poland and in Israel, will not be in vain."

Ambassador of Israel to Poland Anna Azari attends a commemoration event in the so-called "Sauna" building at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, January 27, 2018