Polish death camps

Polish foreign minister formalizes request for German WW2 reparations

Some six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews were killed during World War Two

|ByREUTERS
Protesters carry Polish flags and National Radical Camp flags during a rally, organised by far-right, nationalist groups, to mark 99th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2017.
CURATORS LAY out a concentration camp uniform from 1944 Bergen-Belsen, a child’s doll and Jewish stars at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Is writing poetry barbaric after the Holocaust? - book review

Menachem Rosensaft, a second-generation survivor leader and a political activist is also a poet, whose newest work reveals that although he left Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen has never left him.

|ByMICHAEL BERENBAUM
Café Ariel in Krakow with a menu advertising non-kosher Jewish dishes and a Klezmer concert

Why I have no regrets about visiting Poland

“Now that we’re that close to Europe, it makes sense to go there,” she told me. At first I was very uncomfortable with the idea.

|ByROBERT HERSOWITZ
Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski

MEET THE AMBASSADOR: Marek Magierowski, of Poland

New envoy’s mission: To salvage his country’s image in Israel

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

U.S. calls on Poland to 'reevaluate' legislation on Holocaust language

“We believe open debate, scholarship, and education are the best means of countering inaccurate and hurtful speech.”

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByMICHAEL WILNER
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017

Former ADL chief: Poland's nationalist gov't is trying to rewrite history

A bill that aims to criminalize claims of Polish complicity and participation in the Holocaust have drawn ire from Israeli and Diaspora leaders alike.

JANUARY 30, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, shows the book "The Bible, the Jews, and the Death of Jesus"

Polish president says Poles 'as a nation' did not participate in Holocaust

“I will never agree, that we as a nation, Poland as a nation, be slandered by untrue historical ‘truths’ and by absolutely false accusations," President Duda said.

JANUARY 30, 2018ByHERB KEINON
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

Netanyahu, Polish PM agree to open dialogue on controversial legislation

The bill would make it illegal to attribute complicity in the Holocaust to the “Polish nation.”

JANUARY 29, 2018ByHERB KEINON
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a document outlining plans for the Auschwitz death camp as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2009.

PM: Israel won't tolerate Poland 'distorting truth or re-writing history'

The Polish envoy was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear Israeli objections.

JANUARY 28, 2018ByHERB KEINON

Restaurant in Italy cancels Holocaust Memorial Day Polish theme dinner

The menu included spicy pumpkin soup, kasha cooked “in the oven.”

JANUARY 25, 2018ByJTA
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

Kazimierz Piechowski, leader of daring escape from Auschwitz, dies at 98

He was one of four men in the escape plan involving stolen SS uniforms and weapons, and the truck of Rudolf Hess.

DECEMBER 19, 2017ByJTA
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

Former Nazi death camp guard, 96, charged as accessory to murder

The man is alleged to have worked as a perimeter guard and in the guard towers as a member of the SS’s Death’s Head division.

OCTOBER 24, 2017ByJTA
Majdanek, the second largest Nazi death camp in Poland

An open letter to my 17-year-old son visiting Poland

Every song you sing, every dance step you take, every prayer you make, brings some light into that darkest of locations for Jews – and humanity.

AUGUST 29, 2017ByGIL TROY
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.

La Pologne aux prises avec son passé

Souvent pointé du doigt pour son antisémitisme et sa contribution dans la Shoah, le pays de l’est cherche à redorer son image

APRIL 23, 2017ByILAN EVYATAR
Anna Grygiel-Huryn a survécu grâce à la famille Jarosz