poland Archives – J-Wire

Journey through history: Sydney Jewish Museum announces Berlin and Poland tour

J-Wire Newsdesk — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:44:21 +0000

The Sydney Jewish Museum is offering Australians a rare opportunity to walk in the footsteps of history with its 2026 Berlin and Poland tour. It is a carefully curated journey through some of the most significant sites of Jewish heritage and Holocaust remembrance. Running from 14 to 27 June 2026, the tour represents more than […]

The post Journey through history: Sydney Jewish Museum announces Berlin and Poland tour appeared first on J-Wire.

JIFF Review – ‘Among Neighbours’ – Surviving the Holocaust, only to face murder at home

Rob Klein — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:26:07 +0000

Among Neighbours is an engaging documentary that tackles one of the most uncomfortable parts of Holocaust history, the attacks on Jewish survivors who returned to their homes in Polish towns after the war. Most Holocaust films focus on the atrocities committed by the Nazis, but filmmaker Yoav Potash shifts the focus to the Polish people […]

The post JIFF Review – ‘Among Neighbours’ – Surviving the Holocaust, only to face murder at home appeared first on J-Wire.

Polish president asks government to protect Netanyahu during Auschwitz liberation anniversary

Agencies — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:42:30 +0000

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has asked the Polish government to provide protection to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, if he were to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Times of Israel portal reported on Thursday. Malgorzata Paprocka, the head of the president’s office, confirmed […]

The post Polish president asks government to protect Netanyahu during Auschwitz liberation anniversary appeared first on J-Wire.

Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem

JNS — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 06:20:50 +0000

A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was ransacked on Kristallnacht was placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust remembrance centre. The event was part of the General Kaddish Day, held by the Council of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on the 10th of Tevet, […]

The post Torah scroll, hidden during Holocaust, brought to Yad Vashem appeared first on J-Wire.

Polish ultranationalist MP extinguishes Chanukah candle

AAP — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:46:21 +0000

An ultranationalist MP in the Polish parliament has used a fire extinguisher to put out a candle on a menorah that was lit for Chanukah. The Speaker of the parliament Szymon Holownia denounced the incident carried out by Grzegorz Braun and said there would be no tolerance for antisemitic and xenophobic behaviour in the Sejm, […]

The post Polish ultranationalist MP extinguishes Chanukah candle appeared first on J-Wire.

Yad Vashem: Polish parliamentarian’s effort to silence historian ‘a new low’

JNS — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:26:41 +0000

A member of the Polish parliament allegedly assaulted a Polish-Canadian historian on May 31 who suggested that Poland was complicit in Nazi atrocities. Jan Grabowski was speaking at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw when Grzegorz Braun reportedly took the microphone from his hand, smashed it into the podium and sought to disable the sound […]

The post Yad Vashem: Polish parliamentarian’s effort to silence historian ‘a new low’ appeared first on J-Wire.

Israel and Poland restore relations after Holocaust-related spat

Aryeh Savir - TPS — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 05:10:17 +0000

President Isaac Herzog has discussed with Polish President Andrzej Duda “the promotion of their countries’ bilateral relations” and agreed to restore the relations “to their proper course”. Herzog, in a joint initiative with the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid, requested the return of Israel’s ambassador to Poland. Duda agreed that the […]

The post Israel and Poland restore relations after Holocaust-related spat appeared first on J-Wire.

Renovation work in Poland finds 60 Jewish tombstones near old Gestapo building

JNS — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:08:49 +0000

Dozens of Jewish tombstones were discovered this week in the Polish town of Radzyń Podlaski (also known as Radin), about 35 miles from Lublin, near a building that had been used as headquarters for the Gestapo during the years of World War II and the Holocaust. The tombstones were found during renovations in the area. […]

The post Renovation work in Poland finds 60 Jewish tombstones near old Gestapo building appeared first on J-Wire.

Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’

JNS — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:30:59 +0000

A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centred around the Holocaust “stupid.” Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an interview last week with the British publication Jewish News. Nowak was discussing the 2018 amendment to the country’s Act on […]

The post Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’ appeared first on J-Wire.

Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city

Ben Cohen — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 04:54:43 +0000

In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s present…writes Ben Cohen. As brutal pogroms targeting the Jewish population swept through Poland in 1918, demonstrations calling for an end […]

The post Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city appeared first on J-Wire.