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• 19th century Polish synagogue to be renovated for cultural center

  September 29, 2015 8:16am

  The municipality of Koronowo signed a contract this week to renovate the dilapidated building, which it bought from the Jewish community in the 1930s.

• Polish-Jewish activist appears in court over pro-Israel demonstration

  August 11, 2015 12:44pm

  Tadeusz Markiewicz calls his case a matter of freedom of assembly.

• Polish tribunal to take up restitution law on Warsaw property

  August 4, 2015 1:52pm

  The World Jewish Restitution Organization welcomed the Polish president’s decision to refer the law, which sets a six-month deadline for a hearing, to the tribunal.

• Jewish uprising at Treblinka commemorated

  August 3, 2015 8:18am

  The last surviving prisoner of the Nazi extermination camp in Poland attended the ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the uprising’s outbreak.

• Jan Kulczyk, a major funder of Poland’s Jewish museum, dies

  July 29, 2015 11:30am

  His $5.5 million gift to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, despite not being Jewish, was the largest single grant from a private donor.

• Polish pogrom marked at site of ’41 massacre

  July 12, 2015 7:01am

  On July 10, 1941, dozens of residents of the Polish town murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of whom were burned alive in a barn.

• Polish web surfers decry post of offensive photo of Majdanek

  July 1, 2015 7:05am

  The Ukrainian teen who posted the photo on Facebook apologized to Poles who felt offended, but could be facing charges in Lublin.

• Polish non-Jews honored for Jewish heritage efforts

  June 22, 2015 12:24pm

  A new award was created to recognize the growing number of Poles involved in the protection of Jewish heritage in their country.

• Holocaust survivor from Montreal to bike from Auschwitz to Krakow

  June 4, 2015 7:51am

  When Marcel Zielinski takes part in the 55-mile Ride For The Living, he will be a traversing a similar route he had taken 70 years earlier as a 10-year-old Holocaust survivor.

• Jewish leaders in Poland awarded national medals of honor

  June 3, 2015 6:54am

  Poland’s foreign minister thanked the recipients for their “contribution to Polish-Jewish relations, writing a common history in the new conditions.”