By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Poland and Hungary oppose a statement from the E.U. against Ben-Gvir’s participation in the Europe Day event.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The contract is worth an estimated $36 million.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The victims of the forest executions were mostly inmates of the Soldau Nazi concentration camp killed between 1940 and 1944.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The apparent reconciliation process is taking place despite the fact that the seemingly offensive Polish law is still in place, and although Israel and Poland still disagree on Holocaust-related issues, specifically it’s legacy and history.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
MDA plans to establish a field clinic in Poland, once approved by the Polish government.
By Israel Hayom
The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.
By Ariel Kahana
The Polish ambassador was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the draft legislation • Yair Lapid: “We will not allow any parliament to pass laws the purpose of which is to deny the Holocaust.”
“We are not interested in Polish money and the very implication is anti-Semitic. We are fighting for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, for the pride of our people, and no parliament can enact laws aimed at denying the Holocaust,” Lapid stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is just one of many ways we can repay our boundless gratitude for all that they did to save Jews during the Holocaust,” said Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Still, Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said “the battle isn’t over. It has merely been postponed. If you kick a can down a road, you will eventually run out of road.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Inside were 350 objects, including artifacts from the World War I and 18 cap badges with the initials of Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph, who ruled from 1848 until his death in 1916.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The museum also said that 900,000 users follow its account on Twitter, and more than 300,000 use the museum’s profile on Facebook with 80,000 on Instagram.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The first recipients of the grant will help strengthen seven small European communities in Helsinki, Finland; Riga, Latvia; Oslo, Norway; and Warsaw, Szczecin and Wroclaw, Poland.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the program showed maps that place Nazi concentration camps within the borders of modern-day Poland.
By Israel Hayom
Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Israel, they will have an extensive tour of the nation to learn about the land, Jewish history and Zionism.
By JNi.Media
A month and a half ago, many residents of Yad Binyamin marked the 13th anniversary of their expulsion from Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
By JNi.Media
Prosecutor Rommel noted the huge difference between the US legal requirement for deportation, versus the German requirement for capital crime proceedings.
“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Together with American troops IDF paratroopers parachuted down to the ground from aircraft and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
By JNi.Media
The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.
By JNi.Media
Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Petty arguments and egos, how far will it go?
A visit to Auschwitz .
We do not expect justice in Europe that seeks - too quickly - to forget, to eradicate the memory, to deny, to destroy evidence. But, our memory, the memory of the Jewish People, is the antithesis of the haste of the Nazis. We are a nation that remembers...
By JNi.Media
"The new displays of Nazism – they too can threaten all of humankind."
The annual meeting in Israel of the Leadership Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations and their achievements.
A team from Poland will be arriving in Israel to discuss how the law should be amended,.
A sensitive issue that must be handled properly.
Israel is strong and must be a moral compass.
Hunting and harassment against Israel's PM and the Jewish People.
In the "You Gotta Meet" segment, author/activist Zahava Englard Shapiro blows the March of the Living out of the water and tells us why we should NEVER send our precious children on tours of blood-soaked Poland.
Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’
“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."
The Polish nation is passing a bill threatening a prison sentence of up to three years to anyone using the phrase “Polish death camps” to describe the extermination camps in Poland during WWII.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
We've spent the past few days deleting a lot of horribly anti-Semitic comments written by Polish commenters.
Does Poland have a right to claim innocence?
Holocaust denial by the Arabs and others.
By JNi.Media
Poroshenko's government relies on the Svoboda party, which is inspired by a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator. Party members wear Nazi symbols and organize Nazi-style rallies.
By JNi.Media
Should Kurz form a right-wing coalition with the Freedom Party, Austria would join Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Poland’s Law and Justice government in pursuing tough policies on borders, refugees and migration.
Since January, tourism in Israel has brought in nearly $3.5 billion.
By JNi.Media
Perhaps it's that note regarding the liberating Red Army that stirred the Poles' objections, seeing as the same Red Army proceeded to keep its jackboots on the necks of the Polish state for close to 50 years.
Europe, he said, was acting not just against Israel’s interests but against its own interests as well.
The Jewish people's ancestors, buried in Hebron, must be turning in their graves right now.
This vote against Israel undermines the seriousness of UNESCO assessments.
By JNi.Media
Only 43 Auschwitz staff members have been sentenced in German courts.
Remnants of Torah scrolls are buried in the Warsaw, Poland Jewish cemetery.
By JNi.Media
Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.
By JNi.Media
Out of the 150,000 Jews living in France, 76,000 were murdered after French authorities shipped them away.
By JNi.Media
A rare and impressive array of ritual baths and underground systems used by rebels during the Bar Kokhba Revolt.
By JNi.Media
The subject of a Jewish woman is rare in Kaufmann's work, making this particular painting very unique.
By JNi.Media
Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, buy were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers.
By JNi.Media
One hopes that the trial would discover what possessed the two middle-aged Belgians to desire to take home some of it.
By JNi.Media
There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.
By JNi.Media
A 21-year-old local resident named Daniel allegedly threw a firecracker at an Elk café called Kebab Prince, then was stabbed to death by the Arab staff.
By JNi.Media
Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.
By JNi.Media
Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres, who took part in establishing Israel's security apparatus and served 48 consecutive years as MK passed away following a stroke.
By JNi.Media
IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.
By JNi.Media
A senior IAF official said said the Americans downed Israeli planes in dogfights, "but we downed them, too."
By JNi.Media
Tadeusz Slowikowski, 86, is responsible for the Nazi gold train rumor and has spent much of his time since the 1950s searching for that train.
By dvora
A few of them looked to be over five hundred years old due to some of the variant letter shapes and tagim (crowns) that are no longer used.
The draft refers ten times to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.
By JNi.Media
The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."
By dvora
Katowice was the birthplace of both Chovevei Tzion and Agudat Yisrael. Before the Shoah the city had a Jewish population of more than nine thousand.
When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.
By JNi.Media
Elbit Systems was selected to provide a real-time combat training and accompanying equipment for the special forces of the Polish Army
Polish-born Prof. Jan T. Gross wrote that although the Poles resisted the Nazis, they outdid them in murdering Jews.
By JNi.Media
A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.
The gang's members, 12-14-years old, photographed the victim after the attack.
By JNi.Media
The death bed confessions of a former Nazi soldier revealed the whereabouts of the “Nazi train” which remained hidden for decades in tunnels in Poland and is thought to contain gold, art and other valuables.
The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."
By Kosher Today
His mission was to have vodka produces from the seven species of the land of Israel - figs, dates, pomegranate, wheat, barley, olive and grapes.
The Prime Minister told the Polish Foreign Minister, "Attacks on the Jews were always preceded by the slander of the Jews."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
New Polish Parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus was launched in Warsaw
By JTA
The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.
By JTA
The ban was ruled unconstitutional by the narrowest of margins in a 5-4 vote.
By JTA
Just what we don’t need is some amateur, even if he is right, making headlines with a claim that Jack the Ripper was a Jew.
Far from missiles and mortar shells, Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli has passed away at the age of 92.
By JTA
130-member community may own dozens of properties worth more than $10 million.
A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.
By JTA
Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp, but a city official said it will be rebuilt and was torn down so trees and vegetation could be cut. The wall borders the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz […]
By JTA
An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum out of Poland in his suitcase. The man was detained Sunday by border guards at the airport in Krakow. The tourist said he found the rusty piece of wire, which is nearly 16 inches long, on the ground. “During interrogation, […]
Nazi stamps used to tattoo death camp prisons are proof of the evil system as Holocaust survivors’ numbers dwindle.
By JTA
Police officers in Poland arrested a man whom they said they had caught desecrating Jewish tombstones. The suspect, who was not named, was arrested last week at the Jewish cemetery of Andrychow, 30 miles southwest of Krakow, the news site Wadowice24.pl reported Tuesday. At the 18th-century burial site, he had knocked down 13 tombstones before […]
By JTA
Amid reports that kosher slaughter is continuing in Poland in the face of a law prohibiting it, the country’s chief rabbi suspended an aide who appears to have misrepresented the practice to government inspectors. The aide, Michael Alper, wrote a letter to Polish veterinarians in which he asked for permission to slaughter 250 cows after […]
By JTA
Several Jewish organizations have criticized a Polish prosecutor’s decision not to try soccer fans who chanted about Jews and Auschwitz. A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office of Poznan in central Poland said last week that no charges would be brought against the fans because they did not mean to offend Jews when they chanted the […]
By JTA
A controversial 18-century painting depicting the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews, will be available to viewers in the cathedral of Sandomierz, Poland. The painting, “Mord Rytualny” or “Ritual Murder,” was painted by Charles de Prevot, A plaque will be mounted next to the painting, which will inform viewers that the Jews did not […]
By Paula Stern
There are ashes that remain in the ovens, ashes piled into a mountain in Maidanek.
“Anti-Semitism is like cancer. There are two things that are certain about this cancer of hate. We know that it is deadly and we know that if we don’t fight it, it will spread,’’ Polish Member of the European Parliament Michal Kaminski said in an address to the General Assembly of the European Jewish Parliament […]
The Lithuanian parliament has taken the first steps to legal ritual slaughter in what could be move that turns the tide against the wave of initiatives in Europe to defend the “rights of animals” as a higher priority that freedom of religious practices. “The fact that Lithuania currently holds the Presidency of the European Union […]
By JTA
Two students from Turkey were arrested in Poland for using a Nazi salute on a group of Israeli students visiting the Majdanek concentration camp. The students made the Nazi salute and said “Heil Hitler” when they met a group of students from Israel according to Turkey's Today’s Zaman newspaper. The Israeli group filed an official complaint, leading […]
By JTA
A Polish historian and statesman who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and recognized as a Righteous Gentile for saving Jews in World War II has donated a collection of his memorabilia to a museum in Poland. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 91 and a former member of the underground “Żegota” Polish Council to Aid Jews during the Holocaust, presented […]
Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment the couple was renting. The hideout was made into an official historic monument in 1999. A Holocaust hideout built by a Warsaw ghetto inmate was destroyed by a polish couple who pleaded guilty […]
By JTA
Polish photographer Lukasz Szczygielski has apologized for conducting a photo shoot with a half-naked model at the Jewish cemetery in the southern Polish town of Checiny. Szczygielski explained that he actually wanted to draw attention to what he said was a “neglected” and forgotten cemetery. The Jewish cemetery in Checiny was opened in the 17th […]