holocaust in poland

Jan Grabowski

Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium

“Nothing like this has ever happened to me,” said the Holocaust scholar whose lecture was interrupted.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev June 1, 2023 4:02 pm

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Jozef Walaszczyk, who saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, Poland on Jan. 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jozef Walaszczyk, Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews, dies at 102

His story of rescuing up to 50 people is relatively unknown in Poland.

June 21, 2022 9:41 am

Gwyneth Paltrow funds historical signboard at her Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland

The sign “recounts the history of the Jewish community” of Nowogród dating back to the 15th century.

April 21, 2022 4:04 pm

A Polish ice cream shop owner runs a local Jewish museum. Should he get a prize — or a penalty?

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 30, 2021 5:24 am

Visitors examine signs at to the former grounds of the Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow

In Poland, plans to build a museum on Schindler survivors’ former camp spark environmental protest

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 26, 2021 6:00 am

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center)

A mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in Oswiecim

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 17, 2021 2:48 pm

Poland is ‘reviewing’ changes to Israel’s annual school trips to former concentration camps

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 16, 2021 4:54 pm

Scholar Barbara Engelking

Polish scholars will not have to apologize for their research into Holocaust pogrom, court rules

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 16, 2021 11:57 am

Polish former prime minister Beata Szydło speaks to reported in Warsaw, Poland on July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera)

2 more historians quit Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 16, 2021 9:33 am

Polish court rules that historians must apologize for part of Holocaust pogrom research

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 9, 2021 2:11 pm

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