Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’ Jaroslaw Nowak, who was appointed to his position in July, also said that “at some point,” Poland will “have to do something” about restitution for Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Jan. 11, 2022
Polish ruling on Holocaust libel case causes profound concern among Jewish groups “Despite the passing of 75 years since the end of World War II, Poland still struggles to come to grips with its history,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Faygie Holt Feb. 10, 2021
Meet Michael Schudrich: Rabbi to Poland’s Jews, the living and the dead “From 1939 to 1989, a Jew could not feel safe in Poland,” he says. “Since then, thousands of Poles have discovered their Jewish roots … and they, in turn, are free to pursue what it means to be a Jew.” Deborah Fineblum Dec. 6, 2019
The growing pains of the Poland-Israel relationship Poland needs to shed its guilty conscience with regard to the Holocaust and move on, for the attitude of Viségrad Group is crucial for Israel in the face of the European Union’s incessant criticism of the Jewish state. Fiamma Nirenstein Feb. 20, 2019
US ambassador to Poland: Israel should apologize for Holocaust remarks Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israel’s i24 news channel, “I am the son of Holocaust survivors, we will never forgive and never forget, and there were many Poles who collaborated with the Nazis.” Feb. 20, 2019
In 2013 secretly recorded conversation, Polish premier says Jews are ‘greedy’ When he was a senior banker, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly complained to friends about “greedy” and rich “Americans, Jews, Germans, Englishmen and Swiss” who run hedge funds. Dan Lavie and Israel Hayom Staff Oct. 4, 2018
Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust The statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki “contains highly problematic wording that contradicts existing and accepted historical knowledge in this field.” July 5, 2018
Poland backtracks on controversial Holocaust law, ends criminal penalties The law first proposed earlier this year had sought criminal penalties for any accusing the Polish nation of complicity in the Holocaust, but was widely condemned and threatened to undermine positive relations between Poland, the United States and Israel. June 27, 2018
First lawsuit filed under new Polish ‘Holocaust Law’ A Polish agency filed a lawsuit against an Argentinian newspaper that used Polish soldiers to illustrate an article on the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom. March 4, 2018
