Poland antisemitism

‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’: Polish MP's speech outside Auschwitz stirs outrage

Braun, the head of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, made the comments on Saturday amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism.

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.
LAPD surrounds students protesting in support of Palestinians at an encampment at the University of Southern California’s Alumni Park, in Los Angeles, California, US, April 24, 2024

LAPD increases patrols around synagogues starting Rosh Hashanah, during Holy Days

Rabbi Tanya Segal stands in the courtyard of 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025.

Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.

'Attempt to reshape historical narrative': IDF delegation at Auschwitz told to lower Israeli flags


Germans alone responsible for Holocaust, no Polish involvement - Former Polish PM says

Morawiecki's statements on the Holocaust, particularly his 2018 remarks suggesting multiple nationalities, including Jews, were perpetrators, sparked significant backlash.

Poland's former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish city throws children’s bubble party on top of Jewish graves

The former cemetery, now a children’s play area next to an elementary school, was demolished roughly 50 years ago, but the bodies were not removed.

A Jewish cemetery (illustrative)

Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium

Grzegorz Braun, of the Confederation party, later said he disrupted the event to defend Poland’s good name against Grabowski’s “historical propaganda.” 

Grzegorz Braun, far-right MP and one of the leaders of Confederation Liberty and Independence, and Justyna Socha, one of anti-vaccination movement STOP NOP leaders, walk during a rally against measures imposed by the Polish government to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease in Warsaw

Polish gov't attack on Holocaust historian slammed by academia

More than 300 academics and institutions around the world issued a statement condemning the Polish government-led attacks against Polish historian Barbara Engelking.

 Barbara Engelking is leading scholar on Polish-Jewish history during the Holocaust.

Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust

A Polish group has taken to Wikipedia to distort Holocaust history – all while finding a way to evade editors on the website.

Wikipedia blackout 150

Antisemitic works on display at Warsaw Historical Book Fair

The annual Historical Book Fair in Warsaw is supported by the office of the Polish President Andrzej Duda.

 Bookshelf

Polish foreign minister formalizes request for German WW2 reparations

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

 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.

'Jews are behind the pandemic' chanted at anti-vaccine protest in Poland

'Every Pole can see today that behind the ‘plandemic’ are the Jews,' the crowd chanted

Anti-Jewish protest in London

Polish government to give $50,000 to nationalist website

An organisation run by a student who called Jews “communists” and “Bolsheviks” at a Hanukkah party that featured Poland’s chief rabbi will be given $50,000 by the Polish government.

An Orthodox Jew walks through the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw April 15, 2013. The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated on April 19, 2013. Picture taken April 15, 2013.

Polish historian resigns over 2007 photos of him performing Nazi salute

Last week, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily published the pictures from 2007 of Greniuch extending his right arm in a gesture similar to the Nazi salute during a meeting of the far-right ONR group. which

A MEMBER of a neo-Nazi party gives a salute outside a speech by Richard Spencer on the campus of Michigan State University on March 5