Poland

Polish rapper under fire for calling COVID-19 ‘modern Holocaust’

Quebonafide defended the reference as an homage to another artist’s song and declined a survivor’s request that he apologize.

Polish Holocaust survivor’s family wins lawsuit for land illegally sold to church by rescuer’s son

Church officials had instructed the son to falsely claim the land had been abandoned, a Polish newspaper reported.

An archive picture of Wojciech Rychlewicz. (Courtesy of Israel Hayom)

Polish diplomat in Istanbul rescued hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust, report says

Wojciech Rychlewicz gave documents attesting that refugees trying to flee Europe were Catholics “born into a Catholic family,” prompting other countries to provide visas.

Jozef Walaszczyk, right, receives a cake on his 101st birthday in Warsaw, Poland on Nov. 12, 2020. (From the Depths)

Global

Holocaust rescuer’s 101st birthday draws video greetings from 49 countries

Kosher meat from a cow that was slaughtered in Poland in Nov. 2013 carrying a kosher certification from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. (Aryeh Gross)

Global

Polish government vows to introduce new bill to end ritual slaughter

Global

Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

Global

Roman Polanski’s Holocaust saviors to be named Righteous Among the Nations

Global

Polish parliament votes to ban $1.8 billion industry of kosher and halal meat for export

United States

2 US senators warn Poland’s president on anti-Semitism and restitution

Global

Polish parliament drops bill’s proposal to ban export of kosher and halal meat

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