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Antisemitism / News Briefs / European Union

EU Cancels Europe Day Reception Rather Than Risk Listening to Itamar Ben-Gvir [Updated]

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.

Poland / Holocaust

Mass Graves of 8,000 Nazi Victims from World War II Found in Polish Forest

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.

Antisemitism / Poland / Holocaust

Israel and Poland Restore Relations After Holocaust-Related Spat

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.

Health and Medicine / Ukraine / Poland

Magen David Adom Sends 4 Armored Ambulances to Ukraine

By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk

MDA plans to establish a field clinic in Poland, once approved by the Polish government.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Poland / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

IDF to End Holocaust Delegations to Poland, Chooses Lithuania Instead

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.

Poland / Holocaust

Polish Appellate Court Throws Out Ruling Against Two Holocaust Scholars

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.

Israel / Poland / Holocaust

Israel Up in Arms After Polish Parliament Passes Law Limiting Restitution of Property Lost in Holocaust

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.

Israel / Antisemitism / Poland / Holocaust

Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid: Polish Property Restitution Bill Hints at Anti-Semitism

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.”

Israel / Poland / Holocaust

Row Between Israel and Poland over Holocaust Property Restitution Escalates

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“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.

Poland / Holocaust

Jewish Foundation to Send More than $300,000 to Righteous Gentiles in Poland

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.

Diaspora / Kosher Food News / Poland

Polish Senate Votes to Delay Bill that Would Ban Exports of Kosher Meat

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.”

Jewish / Archaeology / Poland

Archaeologists Unearth Crate of Historic Judaica Items Under Synagogue in Poland

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.

Poland / Holocaust

2.3 Million People Visited Auschwitz in 2019, Setting New Record

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.

Israel / Diaspora / Chessed and Tzedaka / Judaism

Ohr Torah Stone Launches Jewish Education Grants to Small European Communities

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.

Arts and Entertainment / Poland / Holocaust

Netflix to Edit Demjanjuk Docuseries After Pressure by Polish Government

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.

History / Poland / Holocaust

Study: Polish Norms Helped Nazis Wipe out Local Jewry

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.”

Government / United Nations (UN) / Poland / Holocaust

UN Ambassadors Visit Poland, Israel in Holocaust Education Program

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.

Politics / Gaza / Government / Judea & Samaria / On Campus / Education / Settlements

Netanyahu Celebrates New School Year with Gush Katif Refugees

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.

Headline / US / The Courts / Germany / Holocaust

German Nazi Hunter: No Proof Against Deported Camp Guard

By JNi.Media

Prosecutor Rommel noted the huge difference between the US legal requirement for deportation, versus the German requirement for capital crime proceedings.

Headline / Government / Poland / Holocaust

Former Chief Rabbi: Poles 'Shot Selves in Foot' with Holocaust Law

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”

IDF & Security / US / UK / Poland / European Union

Israeli Paratroopers Say Training on Polish Soil Brought 'Great Meaning to Every Soldier'

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.

Featured / IDF & Security / History / Eastern Europe / NATO

For the First Time Since Hannah Szenes IDF Paratroopers Jump in Eastern Europe

By JNi.Media

The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.

IDF & Security / Eastern Europe

A First: IDF Participating in NATO Eastern European Exercises

By JNi.Media

Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Headline / Government / Germany / Poland / Holocaust

President Rivlin's Speech at March of the Living

By Jewish Press News Desk

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...

The Knesset / Russia / Holocaust

Knesset, Russian Federation Council, Hold Joint Holocaust Remembrance Event

By JNi.Media

"The new displays of Nazism – they too can threaten all of humankind."

The Walter Bingham File

Conference Of Presidents - Arab Gulf States are Warming To Israel - The Walter Bingham File

By Israel News Talk Radio

The annual meeting in Israel of the Leadership Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations and their achievements.

Israel / Poland / Holocaust

Poland Freezes Holocaust Whitewash Law

By Jewish Press News Desk

A team from Poland will be arriving in Israel to discuss how the law should be amended,.

The Tamar Yonah Show

Political Jew Hunting - The Tamar Yonah Show

By Israel News Talk Radio

Hunting and harassment against Israel's PM and the Jewish People.

Pull Up a Chair

WE ARE WHAT WE TOLERATE - Pull Up A Chair

By Israel News Talk Radio

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.

Featured / Israel / Holocaust / European Union

Holocaust Survivors March on Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv Protesting Complicity Law

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Eastern Europe

Bayit Yehudi MK Demands Israel Expel Polish Diplomats

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."

The Tamar Yonah Show

HELL as Your Next Door Neighbor - The Tamar Yonah Show

By Israel News Talk Radio

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.

News Briefs / Ukraine / Holocaust

Ukrainian Rabbi Wants Holocaust Moved to Ukraine

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.

Featured / Op-Eds

How Many Poles Does It Take to Leave an Anti-Semitic Comment?

By Jewish Press Staff

We've spent the past few days deleting a lot of horribly anti-Semitic comments written by Polish commenters.

Photo of the Day

Blue Flag

By Photo of the Day

Check out these fighter planes in Israel.

Featured / Politics / History / Media / Holocaust

Ukrainian President in Hot Water over Presenting Lodz Ghetto Jews as Nazis

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.

Politics / Government / History / Antisemitism / Germany / Holocaust

Netanyahu to Austrian Chancellor-Elect: Remember the Holocaust

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.

Featured / Politics / Global / Government / History / Media / On Campus / Education / Holocaust

Russians Soliciting Israel's Support in Joining Sobibor Museum Project

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.

Politics / Government / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / European Union / Eastern Europe

Netanyahu Heard on 'Hot Mic' Warning Europe Undermining Its Security

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Europe, he said, was acting not just against Israel’s interests but against its own interests as well.

The Courts / Germany / Holocaust

Auschwitz SS Guard, 95, Dies in Prison

By JNi.Media

Only 43 Auschwitz staff members have been sentenced in German courts.

Photo of the Day

Burying the Past

By Photo of the Day

Remnants of Torah scrolls are buried in the Warsaw, Poland Jewish cemetery.

Featured / US / Politics / UK / History / The Courts / United Nations (UN) / Germany / Holocaust

New Book: Allies Knew of Death Camps in 1942, Indicted Adolf Hitler for War Crimes

By JNi.Media

Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.

Headline / Politics / History / Elections / Antisemitism / France / Holocaust

Marine Le Pen on WW2 State Crimes: We Didn't Do It

By JNi.Media

Out of the 150,000 Jews living in France, 76,000 were murdered after French authorities shipped them away.

Israel / Jewish / History / On Campus / Education / Archaeology

Students Earn Travel to Poland Digging Up 2000-Year-Old Mikvahs Outside Bet Shemesh

By JNi.Media

A rare and impressive array of ritual baths and underground systems used by rebels during the Bar Kokhba Revolt.

Jewish / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment

Isidor Kaufmann’s 'A Young Jewish Bride' Auctioned

By JNi.Media

The subject of a Jewish woman is rare in Kaufmann's work, making this particular painting very unique.

US / Politics / News Briefs / Germany / Sports / Holocaust

US Vs. Germany Fed Cup Tennis Match Opens with Nazi Anthem

By JNi.Media

Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, buy were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers.

Politics / Police and Crime / History / The Courts / News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Two Belgians on Trial in Poland for Stealing Auschwitz Fence

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.

News Briefs / Europe / Media / Jerusalem / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Online Presents Touching 'Last Letters From the Holocaust'

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.

Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Eastern Europe

Riots in Poland after Murder of Polish Man by Arab Immigrants

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.

Politics / History / News Briefs / Media / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

New Exhibition Shows Poland Using Jewish Gravestones to Build Walls, Sidewalks, Playgrounds

By JNi.Media

Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Obituaries

Israel's 9th President Shimon Peres Dead at 93

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.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Israeli Defense Companies Converge on Industry's Next Big Market — Poland

By JNi.Media

IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Gulf States / UAE / Asia

Report: IAF Trained with Pakistani, UAE Air Forces

By JNi.Media

A senior IAF official said said the Americans downed Israeli planes in dogfights, "but we downed them, too."

History / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Digging for Treasure Resumes in Tracks of Illusive Nazi Gold Train

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.

Features On The Jewish World

The Nozyk Genizah Of Warsaw: Historic Torah Fragments Discovered In Poland

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO to Question Jewish Ties to Western Wall in Arab-Sponsored Draft Resolution

By Jewish Press Staff

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.

Jewish / US / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Eastern Europe

Report: Ambitious Justice Minister Using Polanski Extradition to Pave Own Career

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."

Features On The Jewish World

Volunteering In Poland Over Pesach

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.

Israel / Holocaust

After Decades of Silence, Holocaust Survivors Open Up

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.

Israel / News Briefs / Europe / Business and Economy

Elbit to Supply Combat Training System to Polish Special Forces

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

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Poland Sues U.S. Prof. for Saying Poles Killed Jews than the Germans

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Polish-born Prof. Jan T. Gross wrote that although the Poles resisted the Nazis, they outdid them in murdering Jews.

News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Polish Army Securing Nazi Gold Train Area

By JNi.Media

A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Six Jerusalem Arab Teens Arrested for Sexual Attack on Tourist

By Jewish Press News Desk

The gang's members, 12-14-years old, photographed the victim after the attack.

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Nazi Gold Train Discovery May Bring New Claims from Holocaust Survivors

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Auschwitz Provides Tourists with Outdoor Showers to 'Cool Down'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Religion / Judaism

US Entrepreneur Turns Kosher Vodka into Spiritual Experience

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.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs / Europe

Netanyahu Charges UN with Copying Nazi Slander of Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Prime Minister told the Polish Foreign Minister, "Attacks on the Jews were always preceded by the slander of the Jews."

Israel / Europe

Polish Members of Parliament Voice Public Support of Israel

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

New Polish Parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus was launched in Warsaw

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Preserved Polish Synagogue to Become Jewish Museum

By JTA

The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.

News Briefs / Europe / Judaism

Polish Court Rules Ban on Shechitah Unconstitutional

By JTA

The ban was ruled unconstitutional by the narrowest of margins in a 5-4 vote.

News Briefs

Jack the Ripper Identified as Jewish Barber from Poland

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.

News Briefs / Business and Economy / Obituaries / Canada

Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli, 92

By Jewish Press Staff

Far from missiles and mortar shells, Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli has passed away at the age of 92.

Jewish / Europe

Critics see struggle for power behind replacement of Krakow chief rabbi

By JTA

130-member community may own dozens of properties worth more than $10 million.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Holocaust

Youngest Holocaust Survivor from Schindler’s List Tells her Story

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Warsaw Demolishing Ghetto Wall, Promises Reconstruction

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 […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Italian Tourist Caught Smuggling Barbed Wire from Auschwitz

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, […]

Europe / Holocaust

Nazi Auschwitz Metal Stamps for Tattooing Found in Poland

By Jewish Press Staff

Nazi stamps used to tattoo death camp prisons are proof of the evil system as Holocaust survivors’ numbers dwindle.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Polish Cops Nab Vandal in Jewish Cemetery

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Poland’s Chief Rabbi Suspends Aide over Kosher Slaughter Controversy

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 […]

News Briefs / Europe / Sports / Holocaust

Polish Prosecutors Clear Auschwitz Soccer Chanters

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Painting of Jews Murdering Christian Children to Go on Display

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 […]

A Soldier's Mother

Eighteen...

By Paula Stern

There are ashes that remain in the ovens, ashes piled into a mountain in Maidanek.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / European Union

Polish EU Legislator Calls Anti-Semitism a “Cancer’

By Jewish Press News Desk

“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 […]

News Briefs / Judaism / European Union

Lithuania’s Support of Ritual Slaughter May Turn the Tide

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey / Holocaust

Turkish Students Arrested for Nazi Salute at Polish Nazi Camp Site

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 […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Polish Righteous Gentile Donates Memorabilia to Jewish Museum

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 […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism / European Union

Council of Europe Says Ritual Circumcision Won’t Be Banned

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Holocaust Hideout in Warsaw Destroyed by Polish Couple

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 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Polish Photographer Uses Jewish Cemetery for Naked Photo Shoot

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 […]

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