By JNi.Media
Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.
By JNi.Media
The Polish government's statement said: "We strongly condemn aggression and violence against any person."
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
"President Putin offered to meet in Moscow on September 9," Abbas said. "I agreed. I was to fly to Moscow from here (Warsaw) to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu."
By JNi.Media
Most striking for an organization founded on the ashes of the Holocaust, the UN enables its accredited NGOs to play a central role in promoting modern anti-Semitism.
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.
By JNi.Media
Louis C.K. noted that the word “Jew” is “the only word that is the polite thing to call a group of people and the slur for the same group."
By JNi.Media
The Vistula River is hiding no end of secrets. They are everywhere...
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 […]
Warsaw Ghetto survivor and researcher Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. He was born in Warsaw, where he was wounded in the Jewish uprising against the Nazis in 1943. He is survived by two daughters and three grandchildren. Gutman survived three concentration and death camps, including Auschwitz, but his parents […]
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
Russia will contribute up to $1 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation for the conservation and maintenance of the site of the former Nazi concentration camp, the Polskie Radio website reported. A statement issued by the Russian Embassy in Warsaw stated that support for the project is “a common moral duty as it serves the mission […]
Add Poland to Hezbollah’s terrorist network, which smuggled from Poland parts of the bomb that killed five Israelis last summer, a Polish daily reported. Hezbollah paid $100,000 for the attack.
By JTA
Poland's Jewish community does not want a planned monument to righteous gentiles to be erected near the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is due to open this month on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. "The community of Polish Jews will never forget the heroism of people who, despite the threat of […]
By JTA
The city of Warsaw agreed to hand over ownership of an ancient cemetery to Poland’s Jewish community. The Brodno Cemetery, on the eastern banks of the Vistula River, will be handed over to the Jewish community in the coming weeks and undergo a major restoration operation this year, according to a report last week on […]