Polish police are investigating the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Poland. Monika Krawczyk, the CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, said vandals spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic images and...
Poland is issuing commemorative coins this month to honor three Catholic-Polish families who were killed by the Nazis for having rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The two coins, in denominations of two zlotys, worth about 65 cents, and 20 zlotys, worth...
PRAGUE -- Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance is reopening an investigation into the 1941 rape and murder of 20 Jewish women in the Polish village of Bzury. Polish Radio reported this week that the institute, which is affiliated with the Polish...
Maja Brand, a Jewish activist from Krakow, was among the 16 people killed when two trains collided in southern Poland. Friends said Brand, who turned 30 on Feb. 22, was active “in all things Jewish” in Krakow. The head-on collision occurred Saturday...
A Polish champion horse entered in an Arizona horse show has offended some local Jewish residents because his name, Pogrom, refers to anti-Jewish attacks. The 3-year-old colt was entered to compete in the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show, which ends Sunday....
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder criticized plans by the Polish government to change the way communal property is restituted. A government proposal currently under discussion would change the current system, instituted in 1997, in which specially...
PRAGUE -- The Polish Senate has posthumously honored World War II hero Jan Karski for his work in revealing Nazi genocide taking place in Poland. During a special meeting Wednesday of Upper House of the Polish Parliament, guests including United States'...
By Joel N. Shurkin, JTA
• Published February 6, 2012
Scientists using ground-probing electronics may have discovered the missing mass graves at the site of Treblinka, one of the Nazis' most notorious death camps. No actual bodies were found and the graves were not excavated, in keeping with Jewish law,...
PRAGUE -- Jewish and historical groups in Poland have called for a day to be devoted to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of the Children of the Holocaust, the Jan Karski Association, and the Museum of the History of Polish...
The Auschwitz Jewish Center received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for its work to educate youth about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. The presentation on Jan. 27 in honor of international Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 67th anniversary...
The Auschwitz Jewish Center received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for its work to educate youth about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. The presentation on international Holocaust Memorial Day marked the 67th anniversary of the liberation...
Before leaving for Israel, I didn't fully understand the deep connection and love people have for it. I had learned a lot about Israel throughout my Jewish education, but I never felt a personal connection with the country or its people. Although I was...
