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Nazi war criminal's chilling account of Warsaw Ghetto destruction reaches English readers

After decades of being translated into over 15 languages and adapted for the stage and screen, “Conversations with an Executioner” was published Tuesday for the first time in English.

Jürgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto.
A synagogue napkin made from satin, cotton and metal tassels is among the items being returned from Poland to Greece.

Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by Nazis

Dariusz Stola receives the appointment as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews' director from Marta Cienkowska, the Polish minister of culture and national heritage, in February 2026.

Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, seven years after being pushed out by nationalist politics

Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.

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


Holon’s Hayden Dalton excited to be back -interview

After a tumultuous season that led him to Israel, American forward reflects on lessons learned.

 HAPOEL HOLON’S Hayden Dalton (left) defends against Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Lorenzo Brown in a preseason game between the two Israeli title contenders

Poland rebranded as an outdoor tourist destination

The hotel we stayed in, the Warsawa, was no doubt intended to attract the capital’s more well-to-do denizens.

 NORTHEASTERN POLAND’S wetlands teeming with wildlife from butterflies to beavers.

‘Vampire’ found in ancient cemetery in Poland may have just been ill

Archaeologists in Poland found a woman's skull surrounded by items that indicate that she was accused of being a vampire at the time of her death.

The Vampire (1897) by Philip Burne-Jones

Grapevine August 28, 2022: Brazil's bi-centenary

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

 BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro takes part in a welcome ceremony for the urn with the heart of Portuguese monarch Dom Pedro I, who declared Brazil’s independence from Portugal 200 years ago, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, earlier this week.

Polish delegation to Palestinian territories pays tribute to Arafat

Multiple members of the delegation referred to Israel as an apartheid state.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Polish President Andrzej Duda review the honour guard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2017.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Novogrudok Tunnel Escape

I first became aware of the connection between the uprising and the Novogrudok tunnel escape during a memorial meeting of Novogrudok survivors and their descendants several years ago in Tel Aviv.

 President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, at the Yad Vashem ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, April 27.

Holocaust, Russia-Ukraine War: Paths of memory in today's reality - opinion

I suggest recoining the “Never Again” slogan into “We did it again” – as bystanders this time.

 The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, as photographed by the author last week.

250 Jewish refugees to celebrate Passover Seder in Warsaw

Get to know, up-close, the stories of the Jewish refugees who fled Ukraine to Poland and will be celebrating Passover with Chabad in Warsaw.

 Jewish Ukrainian refugees celebrate Passover at Chabad center in Warsaw, Poland.

‘We’re in the business of saving Jewish lives’

JFNA have raised $25,000,000 – the largest sum of funds to assist the Jewish Agency and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in their work across Europe.

 Ukrainian Jewish refugees arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport, March 6, 2022.

Polish nationalists shout ‘Death to Jews' while burning a book at a rally

Polish nationalists shouted “death to Jews” as they burned a book representing a historic pact protecting the rights of Poland’s Jews at a rally on Thursday in Kalisz.

 A PRESSURE hose is used to clean a monument with Nazi swastikas painted over it in Jedwabne, Poland, in this 2011 illustrative photo