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January 9, 2025, 8:51 pm
A respectful Holocaust film that contains jokes: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’
'The first generation is dying out yet art is still being created in relation to the Holocaust' says reviewer Darren Richman
By Darren Richman
From left: Nick Redshaw, Susie Kahn, James Hill, Ian Breeze and Adam Lyons
May 8, 2024, 4:45 pm
British ex-servicemen join March of the Living in Auschwitz
One of the graduates of Israel's Veterans' Games says he is 'blown away by the sheer scale of what I saw'
By Jenni Frazer
Pic: David Wolchover
March 18, 2024, 1:06 pm
OPINION: Against all odds: an epic story of childhood resilience in wartime Poland
As she celebrates her 90th birthday, David Wolchover narrates his cousin’s extraordinary story of survival as a small child in Nazi-occupied Poland.
By David Wolchover
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), sits in front of a video simulating an X feed during the Holocaust during a European Jewish Association conference in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. (Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images via JTA)
January 26, 2024, 10:44 am
Could social media really have stopped the Holocaust?
Scholars say Elon Musk’s ‘fantasy scenario’ of Twitter/X preventing the Shoah is far-fetched.
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Grzegorz Braun seen shortly after using a fire extinguisher on a Hanukkah menorah in Poland's parliament building in Warsaw, Dec. 12, 2023. JTA: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
December 13, 2023, 10:38 am
Far-right MP Grzegorz Braun shocks Polish parliament by using fire extinguisher on chanukiah
A rabbi described the scene to the Jewish Telegraph Agency as the Catholic church issued a statement apologising to “the entire Jewish community in Poland.”
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Adi Efrat in north London on 10 November 2023. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg
November 22, 2023, 5:05 pm
OPINION: Our Jewish future depends on knowing the present
'Our generation must ensure the evil of 7th October 2023 shall be passed on as historical fact, not dumped to the pile of fake news', writes Rabbi Naftali Schiff
By Rabbi Naftali Schiff
Pic: Courtesy of Chabad of Poland
November 14, 2023, 4:42 pm
Jewish community in Poland comes together for weekend of unity
Amidst growing antisemitism, the event marking Kristallnacht brought together more than 200 members of the Polish Jewish community from Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and Lodz
By Michelle Rosenberg
170 young Jewish boys and girls from Europe, Africa and Asia gathered in Warsaw for a summer camp at Hilton Hotel, marking the first such camp since the Holocaust. 
August 31, 2023, 4:44 pm
Summer camp in Poland brings Jewish kids together for first time since the war
"I can’t even describe how wonderful the experience was for our kids. My children came back home bubbling with energy. They can’t stop talking about it," said the mother of a Jewish child from Morocco.
By JN Reporter
Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski stands at the podium for a planned lectured as far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun of Poland’s Confederation party grabs the microphone and smashes it at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Jan Grabowski)
June 2, 2023, 12:33 pm
Lecture on Holocaust in Poland abandoned after far-right lawmaker storms podium
Event was intended to address efforts by Polish leaders to suppress uncomfortable truths about the history of antisemitism in the country before and during the Holocaust. 
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Pic: Forgotten Exodus
May 15, 2023, 4:50 pm
‘Forgotten Exodus’ to tell heartbreaking stories of Jews expelled from Poland in the 1960s
Records of the Polish Communist government’s post-Holocaust antisemitic purges to be preserved via video interviews, written narratives and archival materials
By Michelle Rosenberg
Students demonstrated in front of the Communist party building in Warsaw in 1968. The protests were used as an excuse to purge Jews from party and from Poland. Ultimately, 12,000 left the country. Pic: image-alliance/dpa/K.Wojciewski; https://www.dw.com/en/poland-marks-50-years-since-1968-anti-semitic-purge/a-42877652
March 23, 2023, 1:10 pm
OPINION: Forgotten exodus – When the Jews left Poland
Daniel Korski writes in order to learn what being Jewish means, we must confront the legacy of expulsion head-on
By Daniel Korski
A photograph of Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto during the uprising, taken by the photographer Z. L. Grzywaczewski. (Family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, son of Leszek Grzywaczewski / Photo from the negative: POLIN Museum)
January 20, 2023, 11:13 am
Never-before-seen pictures of Warsaw Ghetto uprising discovered
Priceless roll of film taken by Warsaw firefighter during the 1943 Jewish revolt reveals smoke over the ghetto and burned-out houses.
By David I Klein (JTA)
Picture: Cnaan Liphshiz
June 22, 2022, 8:19 pm
Jozef Walaszczyk, Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews, dies at 102
Although he was responsible for saving at least 50 Jews, his story is relatively unknown in Poland and beyond, partly because of his aversion to being celebrated as a hero.
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Michael Schudrich (Wikipedia/Cezary Piwowarski)
June 15, 2022, 5:45 pm
Poland’s chief rabbi: Jews here have gone from receiving to giving
Rabbi Michael Schudrich says the country's community has changed in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the resulting refugee crisis
By Jenni Frazer
Krystina Derkach, a doctor, fled Kyiv with her five year-old daughter and thanks Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for the ongoing support from Jewish community (Jewish News)
May 4, 2022, 10:07 pm
‘I am not Jewish but I feel safe here’ – Ukrainian refugees’ praise charity’s work
Jewish News travelled with Chief Rabbi Mirvis and World Jewish Relief to witness JCC Krakow's astonishing work in helping refugees escaping Putin's war in Poland
By Lee Harpin
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