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Jonny Daniels delivering groceries to a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland on March 17, 2020. (Courtesy of From the Depths)

Aging Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust are at risk from the coronavirus. So this Jewish group is delivering food to them.

What began as a free taxi service for the Righteous Among the Nations has become a frequently disinfected home delivery setup.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 19, 2020 4:28 pm

nna Stupnicka-Bando, the 90-year-old president of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations, entering one of the From the Depths taxis for saviors of Jews in Warsaw, Poland on Jan. 29, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Warsaw, elderly Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust have a free taxi service

The project is a life changer for rescuers who survive on a few hundred dollars a month.

February 4, 2020 4:43 pm

Maria Nowak receiving Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon to her 100th birthday celebration at her home in Krakow, Poland on Jan. 20, 2020. (Tytus Kondracki)

Belgian leader celebrates Holocaust rescuer’s 100th birthday

Flemish prime minister Jan Jambon visited Maria Nowak, who risked everything to save her Jewish schoolmate, en route to a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Poland.

January 22, 2020 3:31 pm

A drawing of cows wearing concentration camp uniform and a yellow star. (Sylwia Spurek/Jo Frederiks)

Polish lawmaker posts on social media drawing of cows wearing striped Nazi camp uniform

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 22, 2020 8:22 am

Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes a controversial Holocaust law

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 14, 2020 2:48 pm

Poland’s president says he will not attend Auschwitz commemoration event in Israel because he was not invited to speak

By Katarzyna Markusz January 7, 2020 3:30 pm

Netflix to add clarification to documentary that angered Poland

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 15, 2019 10:41 am

Polish Jewish girl’s Holocaust diary compared to Anne Frank’s published in English

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 20, 2019 11:50 am

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich delivering a speech in Warsaw, Poland on Jan. 2019 (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Polish chief rabbi spurns government invite to ceremony honoring WWII nationalists

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 7, 2019 6:25 pm

Rabbi Dawid Szychowski telling journalists about the Festival of Tranquility that he launched in Lodz, Poland on June 8, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Shvei Israel)

Polish city of Lodz has 1st Jewish festival in decades

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 12, 2019 4:22 pm

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