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• New museum reflects growing Polish interest in all things Jewish

  November 19, 2014 3:19pm

  A country with only about 20,000 Jews now boasts dozens of Jewish museums, culture festivals, academic departments and hundreds of grassroots initiatives focused on preserving Jewish heritage.

• Daughter of Polish interwar leader Jozef Pilsudski dies

  November 17, 2014 6:13am

  Jadwiga Pilsudska Jaraczewska recently met with Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, along with her children and grandchildren.

• Venice Jewish museum, three synagogues to undergo renovations

  November 12, 2014 7:20am

  The $12 million project is expected to be completed in time for events in 2016 marking the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice Ghetto.

• Amid growing European anti-Semitism, new Jewish museum in Poland ‘reveals hope’

  October 28, 2014 5:08pm

  The presidents of Poland and Israel jointly inaugurated the long-awaited core exhibit of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, erected on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto.

• Presidents of Poland, Israel open Poland’s Jewish museum

  October 28, 2014 12:24pm

  “It is not a museum of the Holocaust, it is a museum of life,” Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, said at the official opening ceremony of the more than $100 million Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

• Polish official: Jewish gifts to Warsaw museum a show of trust, forgiveness

  October 28, 2014 6:15am

  The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw celebrated its grand opening with a series of events.

• Mayor of Rome accompanying city’s high schoolers on Auschwitz trip

  October 21, 2014 10:17am

  Mayor Ignazio Marino of Rome is in Poland leading city high school students on the annual “Memory Journey” Holocaust education trip to Auschwitz and Krakow.

• Pope Paul VI, first pontiff to visit Israel, moves closer to sainthood

  October 19, 2014 8:02am

  Pope Paul VI, the first pontiff to visit Israel, has moved a step closer to sainthood.

• Rome’s mayor slams Priebke tribute as ‘vulgar’

  October 12, 2014 2:58pm

  The mayor of Rome condemned a public commemoration in the city for the late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke.

• Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues

  October 10, 2014 8:33am

  The works of Patrick Modiano, the French author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, deal frequently with the experience of Jews under the collaborationist Vichy Regime in World War II occupied France.