Polish death camps

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Having moved from the horrors of the Holocaust to dedicating his life to the revival of the Jewish state, his experiences are the essence of the story of the Jewish people in the 20th century.

JUNE 25, 2026|ByELI ASHKENAZI

Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Protesters carry Polish flags and National Radical Camp flags during a rally, organised by far-right, nationalist groups, to mark 99th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2017.

Polish foreign minister formalizes request for German WW2 reparations

Some six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews were killed during World War Two

OCTOBER 3, 2022|ByREUTERS

CURATORS LAY out a concentration camp uniform from 1944 Bergen-Belsen, a child’s doll and Jewish stars at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Is writing poetry barbaric after the Holocaust? - book review

Menachem Rosensaft, a second-generation survivor leader and a political activist is also a poet, whose newest work reveals that although he left Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen has never left him.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021|ByMICHAEL BERENBAUM

Café Ariel in Krakow with a menu advertising non-kosher Jewish dishes and a Klezmer concert

Why I have no regrets about visiting Poland

“Now that we’re that close to Europe, it makes sense to go there,” she told me. At first I was very uncomfortable with the idea.

FEBRUARY 25, 2020|ByROBERT HERSOWITZ

Polish Senate passes law criminalizing suggesting complicity in Holocaust

"We have to send a clear signal to the world that we won't allow for Poland to continue being insulted," Patryk Jaki, a deputy justice minister, said.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByREUTERS

U.S. calls on Poland to 'reevaluate' legislation on Holocaust language

“We believe open debate, scholarship, and education are the best means of countering inaccurate and hurtful speech.”

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByMICHAEL WILNER

The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017

Former ADL chief: Poland's nationalist gov't is trying to rewrite history

A bill that aims to criminalize claims of Polish complicity and participation in the Holocaust have drawn ire from Israeli and Diaspora leaders alike.

JANUARY 30, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, shows the book "The Bible, the Jews, and the Death of Jesus"

Polish president says Poles 'as a nation' did not participate in Holocaust

“I will never agree, that we as a nation, Poland as a nation, be slandered by untrue historical ‘truths’ and by absolutely false accusations," President Duda said.

JANUARY 30, 2018ByHERB KEINON