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Sole Lodz synagogue to survive Holocaust triumphs over demolition plans

After local real estate developers in central Polish city planned to demolish the historic building, a solution has been found and the old Reicher Synagogue will be added to the list of preserved sites

Itamar Eichner | 06.04.23

Auschwitz survivors pay homage at camp on Holocaust remembrance day 2019

Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish political video using images of camp

The short video posted on social media by the ruling Law and Justice Party aims to discourage people from attending an opposition march in Warsaw

Reuters | 05.31.23

Israeli pop star Noa Kirel responds to Polish controversy

'Things are kind of taken out of context,' Kirel says of post-Eurovision dust-up; Poland and I have been in a love affair for a while

Paz Grace/i24NEWS | 05.23.23

Kyiv's Jewish community elders return home after months at Polish shelter

Some 200 elderly people from Ukrainian capital’s Jewish community stayed in guesthouses in Lublin and Lodz to escape ravages of winter and war; ‘In Poland, we had the opportunity to provide them with quality medical care, in a special hospital for elderly and without fear of missiles and the terror of war,’ says Rabbi Jonathan Markovich

Gilad Meiri | 05.22.23

Wizz Air nixes $16 flight to Poland citing mistake

Hungarian low-cost carrier blames malfunction in the reservation system miss-posted prices to Poalnd and Italy, promises customers a full refund

Daniel Salama | 05.21.23

Poland invites Noa Kirel for visit after 'painful' Eurovision remarks

Warsaw takes issue with singer celebrating ‘victory’ for getting full marks for final performance from Poland where members of her family perished in the Holocaust

Ran Boker | 05.20.23

Jurgen Stroop report on the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto

Rare Nazi documents exhibited in Poland archive

Israeli Ambassador invited to archive to view chilling accounts of extermination of Galicia Jews, destruction of Warsaw ghetto after the uprising there and a schedule of trains transporting Jews from the Polish capital to Treblinka

Itamar Eichner | 05.18.23

Yad Vashem, academics, institutions, condemn Poland attack on Holocaust historian

Dispute reflects the governing Law and Justice party’s ongoing push for a patriotic narrative of the past that scholars such as Engelking say erases Polish crimes against Jews during the war

Dinah Spritzer/JTA | 04.30.23

Liberation of Dachau concentration camp near Germany

Memory of the Holocaust should be marked in Berlin, not Poland

Opinion: Locales of genocide have become more important to Israelis and Jews around the world than the identity of the murderers and Berlin transformed into a coveted tourism destination; Israeli youth should march there with flags

Avner Hadas | 04.18.23

The fearless Jewish fighter who sought revenge against the Nazis

During the Holocaust, Shalom Cholawski commanded the armed uprising in Nyasvizh, continued fighting the Nazis in the forests, and even carried out a campaign of personal revenge – leaving behind a legacy of bravery in the face of adversity

Eliezer Hayoun | 04.18.23

'Youth trips to Poland should not include perversion of history,' minister says

In an agreement reached by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and finalized during his visit to Warsaw last month, Israel agreed to include at least one from a long list of sites presented by the Polish government including some which may contradict historical facts and pervert the memory of the Holocaust

ynet correspondents | 04.10.23

Polish town seeks to revive Jewish cemetery destroyed in WWII

Project by Poland’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews intends to collect fragments of Jewish gravestones, looted by locals for decoration and construction, and return them to original location

Itamar Eichner | 10.23.22

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