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Nationalist rally-goers burn a book in Kalisz, Poland, Nov. 11, 2021. (Karolina Pawliczak/Twitter)
November 14, 2021, 11:36 am
Polish nationalists shout ‘Death to Jews’ at rally while burning book about Jews
Video on social media shows Wojciech Olszański, a far-right activist, lighting a book which symbolised a pact between non-Jews and Jews from 1264
By JTA
Football (Photo by Jannik Skorna on Unsplash)
November 2, 2021, 1:07 pm
Top Polish referee sparks outrage with rant about Jews and antisemitism
FIFA urged to take action against Lukasz Araszkiewicz after he said the Never Again Association's campaign to fight antisemitism was 'utter balderdash spun by Jewish groups'
By Lee Harpin
Slogans praising Hitler atop a monument for bodies of Jews that were burnt in Rudzica, Poland. (Magdalena Nowacka via JTA)
August 21, 2021, 12:22 pm
Symbolic grave for Jews in Poland defaced with slogans praising Hitler
The incident in Rudzica, near Krakow, happened on a large tombstone-shaped monument for about 1,500 people murdered there in 1941 by German troops,
By JTA
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
June 25, 2021, 2:14 pm
Polish schoolchildren topple 63 headstones of Jewish graves
Group of 12-year-olds told the police they did it because they wanted to build a fortress out of the slabs
By JTA
Sejm Meeting Hall (Wikipedia/ The Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland / Source Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej/ Author Katarzyna Czerwińska)
June 25, 2021, 2:13 pm
In Poland, a bill to limit Holocaust restitution advances in parliament
Move would mean courts may consider appeals regarding administrative decisions only if they were made within the previous 30 years.
By JTA
Krakow (Wikipedia /Source and author Andrzej Otrębski/ Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
June 13, 2021, 10:24 am
Krakow official says good-luck figurines of Jews are ‘antisemitic’
Robert Piaskowski, the city’s alderman for cultural affairs, says the items should not longer be sold
By JTA
Captured Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation.
April 21, 2021, 4:08 pm
Warsaw unveils monument to underground archive that documented Shoah horror
The commemoration of the Ringelblum Archive was timed to the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By JTA
Auschwitz concentration camp
April 18, 2021, 9:52 am
Two historians quit Auschwitz board over right-wing politician’s appointment
After Jewish philosopher Stanislaw Krajewski quit earlier in the week, historians Marek Lasota and Krystyna Oleksy followed suit over the appointment of Beata Szydlo
By JTA
Students on the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET)/UJS Lessons from Auschwitz Universities Project, visiting Auschwitz. Photo credit: Yakir Zur
April 15, 2021, 3:39 pm
Jewish leader quits Auschwitz board over right-wing politician’s appointment
Polish communal figure Stanisław Krajewski said he would quit the museum's council over the the nomination of the Law and Justice party’s Beata Szydlo
By JTA
An election poster featuring Waldemar Wojciechowski ahead of the 2020 local elections in Poland. (PIS) Via JTA
April 5, 2021, 7:24 am
Local politician in Poland makes antisemitic joke at council meeting
'Why don’t Jews buy land? Because you can’t cheat the earth,” Waldemar Wojciechowski, of the right-wing Law and Justice ruling party, reportedly said
By JTA
Jonny Daniels delivers Jozef Walaszczyk, right, a cake on his 101st birthday in Warsaw, Poland on Nov. 12, 2020. (From the Depths)
November 14, 2020, 5:29 pm
Holocaust rescuer’s 101st birthday draws video greetings from 49 countries
British-born activist Jonny Daniels arranged for well-wishers to send messages from across the world to righteous man Jozef Walaszczyk
By JTA
November 8, 2020, 12:36 pm
Polish government vows to introduce new bill to end kosher, halal slaughter
Agriculture Minister Grzegorz Puda announced that a bill, already passed by parliament, will not be brought to the president for a signature - and a new one will be introduced
By JTA
A butcher cuts and packs lamb chops (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 15, 2020, 3:10 pm
UK relief after Poland postpones law banning export of non-stun meat
Decision comes after campaign against the bill by European Jewish Association, whose chair was encouraged it appeared to 'enjoy little support from farmers or the senate'
Przemysław Czarnek (Wikipedia/Author Adrian Grycuk/Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Poland (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/legalcode)
October 11, 2020, 5:58 pm
Polish MP who called Shoah memorial a ‘scandal’ is made education minister
Przemysław Czernek of the ruling Law and Justice party last year called for the removal of a memorial created by artist Dorota Nieznalska, branding it an 'anti-Polish scandal'
By JTA
Jewish cemetery in Lezajsk
October 2, 2020, 11:07 am
Jewish tombstones found beneath rubble in Polish town of Lezajsk
Town used to have 90 percent Jewish population, and was a pilgrimage site for 18th century rabbi, Elimelech Weisblum, before the pandemic
By Jewish News Reporter
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