Warsaw

The forgotten German who saved Jews in Japan - and the diary that resurfaced 80 years later

A child’s wartime diary has reopened the story of Willy Rudolf Foerster, a German industrialist who helped Jewish refugees reach Japan.

Willy Rudolf Foerster with his children,  Willy Jr. and Erica.
Members of the media work next to a cordoned-off area as police and fire fighters work at the site of a deadly attack at a school by a 15-year-old former pupil, in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2026.

Three injured in Poland's third youth stabbing attack in four days

Jürgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto.

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

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


The Tehran children and their remarkable four-year trek home

A new exhibition supported by JNF-USA at the Atlit Detention Camp heritage site, shows the dangerous journey of 1,000 Jewish orphans from Poland to pre-state Israel via Iran.

 A young Jewish boy holds yellow signs bearing the names of jews who were deported from Bordeaux to Nazi death camps in World War II. The demonstration took place in front of a synagogue, October 8 coinciding with the opening of the trial of Maurice Papon, an ex-cabinet minister, charged with crimes

Churchill and Roosevelt's roles in WWII Jewish rescue - opinion

The “attitudes of much of the Foreign Office in Britain and of the US State Department,” says Groth, “were fundamentally hostile to Jewish rescue.”

 FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT and Winston Churchill – did they fail European Jewry?

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.