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Holocaust rescuer gets a surprise 100th birthday party in Poland

Jozef Walaszczyk, who was picked up in a Ferrari, called it “the best surprise I have ever gotten in my life.”

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 15, 2019 1:01 pm

Former far-right activist named head of branch of Polish historical institute

The Institute of National Remembrance is one of Poland’s leading institution for public education about World War II, and its archives contain materials detailing crimes committed against Jews.

November 10, 2019 2:01 pm

Polish students clean up local Jewish cemetery

The students in Zalewo learned to read the Hebrew inscriptions on the gravestones.

October 27, 2019 2:52 pm

Polish president withholds signature on paperwork to give Jewish scholar the title of professor

By Katarzyna Markusz October 27, 2019 2:45 pm

Polish minister says Jewish museum’s director ‘politicized’ it

By Katarzyna Markusz September 25, 2019 10:14 am

Polish judge called Jews a ‘despicable, filthy nation’ in online forum

By Katarzyna Markusz September 12, 2019 12:30 pm

Krystyna Danko receiving flowers from Jonny Daniels on in her apartment in Warsaw, Poland on her 102nd birthday on July 9, 2019. (From the Depths)

Polish woman who saved adoptive Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 9, 2019 11:04 am

Senators ask Mike Pompeo to pressure Poland on Holocaust property restitution

By Katarzyna Markusz August 6, 2019 7:28 am

Armed guards block Chabad worshippers from entering Krakow synagogue amid dispute among Jewish groups

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 1, 2019 9:28 am

Mariusz Robert Opałko, holding a Torah scroll, and Michael Freund at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on June 9, 2013. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel)

When elders reveal they are Jewish on their deathbeds, their children often return to Judaism

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 27, 2019 3:04 pm

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