Polish jewry

‘The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition’ turns memory into witness - review

Auerbach arrived in Warsaw in 1933 as a journalist and has dedicated her life to remembering Holocaust victims.

CAPTURED JEWS are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation. Photo taken at Nowolipie Street, near intersection with Smocza Street.
Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.

Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Russian security bureau declassifies documents on Auschwitz liberation and Nazi crimes

 Kuźmiuk Bakery in Lublin, Poland, operates in the shadow of the Holocaust: The family that operates it took over a bakery whose Jewish owners were murdered by the Nazis.

Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by Nazis


Polish women jokes no laughing matter for Poland's diplomat to Israel

There is not a person in Israel that does not know a few Ima Polania (Polish mother) jokes.

Katarzyna Rybka-Iwańska, first secretary at the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv.

New app shines light on Polish Jewry outside Holocaust

The app shows images from the 19th century until the present day in an effort to paint a broader picture of every aspect of Poland's rich Jewish history.

JEWS LIVING in a shtetl in Poland

New campaign to highlight history of Polish Jews, Polish-Israelis

The campaign, conducted in conjunction with the Institute of Jewish History in Poland and the Polish Museum, will cover over 1,000 years of Jewish history.

Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw building

Grapevine December 1, 2019: Jerusalem regardless…

An example is the Polish Embassy, whose ambassadors have several times used the Begin Heritage Center as a venue for an important event.

A view of the Har Nof neighborhood, Jerusalem

Holocaust hero who died with orphaned children honored in Poland

Manager of an orphanage, Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, chose to stand by the children until the bitter end.

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

Incumbent director of Polish Jewish museum wins job competition

Stola, who is not Jewish, has criticized a controversial law passed last year in Poland that makes it illegal to blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes.

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Was Jack the Ripper Jewish?

According to a study published this week by the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the culprit of the brutal crimes was Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew.

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Grapevine February 27, 2019: The Polish connection

During the war, it was looted by the Nazis; and over the years since then, it had succumbed to neglect and decay, which did not quite destroy its natural beauty.

PITTSBURGH MAYOR Bill Peduto