When Jews gathered for the anniversary of a World War II massacre in the Polish town of Jedwabne, they saw a new installation — one that denied a historical consensus about the grievous events that ...

Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes it ...

Amid a public debate about the complicity of Poles in the murder of Jews in the Holocaust, Poland’s education minister implied that historical accounts of such atrocities are inconclusive. In an ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government is reconsidering whether to exhume human remains at a World War II-era site where Jews were burned alive by Polish neighbors, though the country's chief ...

Many Poles want visitors to understand that their country was not just a backdrop for Jewish death, but a nation crushed in its own right.The post Poland, Jewish memory and ...

There’s been a lot of debate recently about what constitutes a genocidal attack, but here’s an example that should clear the bar for most folks: An estimated 1,600 people — many of them women, ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) Reflecting native son Pope John Paul II s efforts to reach out to Jews, Poland s Roman Catholic bishops made a historic apology Sunday not only for a 1941 massacre of Jews in ...

(JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — ...

(Excerpt from "The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" by Mordecai Paldiel, KTAV Publishing House, Inc. Hoboken, N.J. 1993.) When Germany invaded Poland on September ...

Though anti-Semitism has a long and virulent history in Poland, Jews form a vital and powerful segment of the present Polish government. As in other countries in Eastern Europe, the roots of the ...