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Israeli ambassador to Poland re-enacts establishment of first diplomatic mission
24.10.2018
In honor of the 70th anniversary of Israel’s first diplomatic mission, Israel’s ambassador to Poland re-enacted the moment when the flag of Israel flew for the first time in Warsaw.
File photo: Jews from all over the world participate in the “March of the Living,” seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day on April 16, 2015. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
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In 2013 secretly recorded conversation, Polish premier says Jews are ‘greedy’
Dan Lavie and Israel Hayom Staff04.10.2018
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.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Man throws rock into window of Gdansk synagogue during Yom Kippur services
Yossi LempkowiczEuropean Jewish Press20.09.2018
A man hurled a heavy rock into the window of the women’s gallery of a synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, during prayers at the end of Yom Kippur, the Dy of Atonment, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Prepping for the High Holidays. Credit: Pixabay.
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Honoring Polish rescuers in Warsaw who risked all to save Jews during the Holocaust
17.09.2018
“Your deeds helped to preserve our collective humanity—and we are forever in your debt for doing so,” said Eric Green, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Warsaw.
Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street, between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Ambassador Brownback poised to address anti-Semitism while in Europe
Jackson Richman12.09.2018
The annual event brings together hundreds of civil society officials and government representatives worldwide for talks about advancing human rights and other freedoms.
Sam Brownback, then governor of Kansas, speaks at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.
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‘To Bear Witness’: Florida college student’s inaugural photo exhibit illustrates starkness of Poland
Arieh Kovler04.09.2018
Images in Poland may be “thought-provoking,” though they touch on the “macabre,” says Alexander (Avi) Davidson, who can relate to life’s darker moments.
Alexander (Avi) Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, documented his experiences on a Chabad on Campus “Living Links” trip to Poland.
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Jonathan S. Tobin06.07.2018
Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?
The joint Polish-Israeli statement was inaccurate, but it was also part of a necessary effort to end an unnecessary quarrel.
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Gila and Adam Milstein06.07.2018
Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future
Facing these horrors up close focused our attention on the relevance of the Holocaust to our present day. How can we ensure that “Never Again” isn’t just a slogan, but a mindset and an action plan?
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Daniel Pipes06.07.2018
Poland’s Muslim ban
Struck by this grand vision of Poland’s destiny, and particularly interested in the near-total ban on Muslim migrants (Morawiecki again: “We will not accept migrants from the Middle East and North Africa in Poland”), I just spent a week in Warsaw to understand why that country differs so sharply from Western Europe and what this implies.
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‘Historical truth is in peril’
Assaf GolanIsrael Hayom06.07.2018
Historian Yehuda Bauer, 92, says the joint Israeli-Polish statement on Poland’s controversial Holocaust law attacks the memory of the Holocaust and silences attempts to tell the stories of what befell Polish Jews at the hands of their countrymen.
The Jewish cemetery in Lodz, Poland. May 11, 2017. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.
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Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust
05.07.2018
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.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a state ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
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Ben Cohen29.06.2018
Polish-Jewish relations step back from the brink
Be confident, though, that the debate about World War II will continue to reverberate into the country’s contemporary politics.
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Poland backtracks on controversial Holocaust law, ends criminal penalties
27.06.2018
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.
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Israeli paratroopers say training on Polish soil brought ‘great meaning to every soldier’
Yaakov Lappin20.06.2018
The Israel Defense Forces flew a platoon of 40 soldiers and officers to Europe, where together with American troops they parachuted down to the ground from aircraft, and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
Israel Defense Forces paratroopers training in Poland. Credit: IDF Spokespersons Unit.
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The worldwide work of saving cemeteries and honoring the Jewish dead
Howard Blas18.06.2018
The ESJF was founded in 2015 to protect Jewish burial sites in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in places where Jewish communities were wiped out during the Holocaust. So far, it has placed fences around 102 Jewish cemeteries in six European countries and conducted mass field surveys of sites.
The Jewish cemetery in Kremenets, Ukraine, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the country that was restored and preserved by the ESJF. Credit: Coutesy of ESJF.
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