Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived in the mountains of Siberia.
Polish President Andrzej Duda took part in nationwide observances Friday to honor Poles who risked — and often lost — their lives trying to save Jews from the Holocaust during the Nazi German ...
Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes it ...
Though anti-Semitism has a long and virulent history in Poland, Jews form a vital and powerful segment of the present Polish government. As in other countries in Eastern Europe, the roots of the ...
Because SS soldiers used the Nożyk Synagogue as a warehouse and horse stable during World War II, it was the only major Jewish synagogue the Nazis did not destroy in Poland's capital city of Warsaw.
(JTA) In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn ...
Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. wikicommons/Adrian Grycuk via JNS From Poland, where the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation is based, I’m often asked a blunt question by Jewish ...
The newspaper has spent decades cultivating a readership conditioned to accept grotesque narratives about Jews, fully aware of the historical consequences of systematic demonization.
A former synagogue in Turka, Ukraine, near Borynya. A writer and his sister journey to the childhood homes of their Polish parents, places where once Jews like them could thrive. (Daniel Rodrigues/The ...
Jews in Poland joined in mourning the victims of a plane crash that took the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other members of Poland’s leadership. Memorial services were scheduled in ...