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Karol Nawrocki
June 2, 2025, 10:15 am
Holocaust revisionist wins Polish presidential election
Karol Nawrocki, a historian who has led attempts to rewrite Poland's role in the Holocaust, has been elected president
By Lee Harpin
Dame Melinda Simmons, the UK’s incoming ambassador to Poland. Credit: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Press Department
May 19, 2025, 4:04 pm
Jewish diplomat Dame Melinda Simmons named UK’s new ambassador to Poland
Former Kyiv envoy to take up post in August following language training
By Annabel Sinclair
President Isaac Herzog with Poland's President Andrzej Duda and hostage survivor Eli Sharabi, at the gates of Auschwitz for March of the Living 2025. Pic: Twitter/X
April 25, 2025, 2:51 pm
President Isaac Herzog meets President Duda of Poland at Auschwitz
Standing alongside hostage survivor Eli Sharabi for March of the Living, Israeli premier calls return of the remaining 59 held by Hamas a 'universal human imperative'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Grzegorz Braun. Photo: Facebook
April 2, 2025, 4:22 pm
MEP suspended for disrupting Holocaust memorial with Gaza remark
Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun suspended after interrupting Holocaust memorial with remark about “Jewish genocide in Gaza”
By Annabel Sinclair
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov)
February 28, 2025, 11:01 am
Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
In a secluded burial ground blanketed with tragedy and neglect, a group of young people are revealing fragments of Poland’s Jewish past.
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, an Israeli researcher in Holocaust studies. Screenshot: Twitter/X
January 28, 2025, 10:39 am
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Screenshot: IMDB
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)
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