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A piano that belonged to Władysław Szpilman. (Desa Uninicum)

Polish auction house selling possessions of Holocaust survivor behind ‘The Pianist’ story

The priciest item on the list of Władysław Szpilman’s objects is a Steinway piano, which is estimated to fetch as much as $70,000.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 11, 2020 10:42 am

Rafał Trzaskowski poses for a picture in parliament in Warsaw, Poland on April 14, 2016. (Wikimedia Commons/Adrian Grycuk)

Leading presidential hopeful would ‘satisfy Jewish claims’ for Holocaust restitution, Polish state TV warns

Poland is the only major country in the former Soviet bloc that has taken no action to return private property to the World Jewish Restitution Organization.

June 16, 2020 12:19 pm

Dani Rotstein stands next to a monumnet commemorating the Jews of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19

“I’m drowning in quicksand,” said the owner of a Warsaw kosher restaurant that lost its income due to the pandemic.

May 22, 2020 3:57 pm

University of Warsaw students remember pre-WWII segregation of Jews at the school

By Katarzyna Markusz October 7, 2019 9:18 am

Israeli students beaten by attackers who yelled ‘f**k Israel’

By Marcy Oster September 8, 2019 11:42 am

Mike Pompeo in Warsaw calls on world to confront Iran

By Marcy Oster February 14, 2019 7:52 am

Netanyahu appears to acknowledge attack on Iranian targets in Syria

By Marcy Oster February 13, 2019 8:05 am

Warsaw airport requires Israeli musician to remove strings from cello because they are ‘too dangerous’

November 22, 2018 2:13 pm

Israel holds symbolic opening of embassy in Warsaw to mark 70 years of relations

October 24, 2018 11:29 am

Warsaw prosecutor’s office will not investigate anti-Semitic letter left at Center for Holocaust Research

By Katarzyna Markusz September 13, 2018 2:59 pm

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