Poland

In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis

On the same day, a far-right lawmaker called the gas chambers in Auschwitz “fake.”

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Karol Nawrocki, right-wing Holocaust revisionist historian, elected Polish president

Nowrocki has promised to end the tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in the presidential palace.

Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after ‘A Real Pain,’ set in Poland, wins Oscar

Eisenberg has said filming in Poland inspired him to seek citizenship in the country his great-aunt fled.

POLIN Museum tallis

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On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis

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A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.

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The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.

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In first, Polish priest sentenced on charges of spreading antisemitic hate speech

Piotrkowska Street at Dusk - Lodz - Poland

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Massive trove of prewar Jewish artifacts unearthed by construction workers in Poland

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Israel suspends school trips to Poland, citing interference in content and security issues

Konstanty Gebert

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Polish-Jewish journalist quits newspaper after it demands different description of ‘neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian militia

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