Explore the complexities of Poland today and its relation to Jewish history and memory in a post-Holocaust context.

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 ...

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, ...

(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 — ...

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 ...

It may be a full 79 years since the end of World War II. But leave it to the deputy foreign minister of Poland, Władysław Bartoszewski by name, to remind us of the virulent anti-semitism that both ...

In the center of a forest 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) northeast of Warsaw, signposts point the way to a "place of ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - An increasing number of Polish Jews who hid their background because the Nazi occupation and the communist government's anti-Semitic campaign are now rediscovering their identity, ...