Poland

Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive

The Ghetto Fighters’ House brings rare archival artifacts and stories to Givatayim for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, linking past resilience to today’s changing world.

Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.
IDF commanders visit Auschwitz as part of their training.

After October 7, IDF commanders visit Poland for Holocaust lessons and battlefield reflections

The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy

Israelis during a judo practice in Ramat Gan, July 5, 2024.

Israel alleges antisemitic attack on youth judo team in Poland, local authorities dispute claims


Eurasian silver and slavery: The unexpected rise and fall of the Piast dynasty

The fatal liability of lacking reliable prior networks revealed itself in the rapid collapse of the first Polish state.

 Marcinkowo Górne, Poland, September 20 2022. Monument of Leszek the White, prince of Masovia and Kujawy from the Piast dynasty, murdered in Gąsawa massacre, by order of duke of Pomerania in year 1227.

'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English - review

An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.

 JEWISH WEDDING in a Russian shtetl, complete with klezmer band; painting by Isaak Asknaziy, 1893.

Grapevine: Remembrance

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Rain and ashes: 2025 March of the Living commemorates Holocaust, hostages

President Isaac Herzog told the gathered dignitaries that “While we are here, the souls of dozens of Jews still thirst for water and freedom.”

 A handwritten sign in Hebrew on the train tracks to Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. The sign reads "Waiting for all 59 hostages, now!"

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Jewish Holocaust story is pushed to the margins - opinion

Eighty years after the Holocaust, the memory of Jewish suffering at Auschwitz is increasingly shaped by controlled narratives, highlighting the need to preserve the truth of the atrocity.

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.

Main lesson of Holocaust is to fight fanatical regimes that threaten whole world, Netanyahu says

Netanyahu arrived late to the ceremony -- reportedly due to security issues, but top security officials were already present at site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 23, 2025

'Among Neighbors': A filmmaker’s journey to uncover a forgotten Holocaust legacy

Filmmaker Yoav Potash arrived in Poland to document a modest ceremony in a forgotten town, but left with a profound mystery that would take a decade to unravel.

 FILMMAKER YOAV POTASH directs a drone camera while filming at the site of the Treblinka death camp for ‘Among Neighbors.’

Amber “Gummy Bear,” stolen in WWII, may be over 5,000-years-old

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study suggesting it dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period.

 Amber “Gummy Bear,” stolen in WWII, may be over 5,000-years-old.

Bearing witness to new chapter in haredi Holocaust education - opinion

As a descendant of Holocaust survivors myself, I inherited traumatic Holocaust memories that have accompanied me throughout my life.

 THE WRITER (center, holding the right corner of the second flag from the left) and students from the Netzach yeshiva high schools visit Auschwitz last month.

'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.