Polish death camps

Polish foreign minister formalizes request for German WW2 reparations

Some six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews were killed during World War Two

 Protesters carry Polish flags and National Radical Camp flags during a rally, organised by far-right, nationalist groups, to mark 99th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2017.
 CURATORS LAY out a concentration camp uniform from 1944 Bergen-Belsen, a child’s doll and Jewish stars at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Is writing poetry barbaric after the Holocaust? - book review

Café Ariel in Krakow with a menu advertising non-kosher Jewish dishes and a Klezmer concert

Why I have no regrets about visiting Poland

 Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski

MEET THE AMBASSADOR: Marek Magierowski, of Poland


Netanyahu leaves door open to re-addressing Polish Holocaust issue

“The goal of the contacts with the Polish government was to abrogate the criminal clauses in the Polish law that cast a pall of fear over research and free discourse regarding the Holocaust."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a Likud faction meeting, July 2 2018

Analysis: When realpolitik crosses the line

So where should the line be drawn? For the one and only Jewish state, antisemitism is a good place to start taking a strong stand, as is the Holocaust.

THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

Israel Police Chief at Auschwitz: We're coming to teach, not learn

"Coming to Poland in uniform and with an Israeli flag, with the president and other security officials, is very meaningful."

Police commissioner Roni Alsheich salutes during a ceremony

1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did

The report said many Jews preferred to flee, even to Germany, after the war.

A sign in German and Polish is seen at Auschwitz

The Polish Holocaust bill and its real repercussions

Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in the snow

Poland says controversial Holocaust law isn't 'frozen'

On Saturday night, Channel 2 reported that Poland had decided to freeze the law making it a crime to say the Polish state or nation was complicit in the Holocaust.

Polish President Andrzej Duda

US Jewish group pulls 'Polish Holocaust' video after causing outcry

The answer to the ‘Polish Holocaust Bill,’ is not inflammatory, hateful rhetoric such as this but, rather, discussion and dialogue based on facts,” said the executive director of JCC Krakow.

screenshot from the suspended Ruderman Family Foundation campaign video

An open letter to the prime minister of Poland, Mr. Mateusz Morawiecki

‘SHOES’ STARTS out with a pair of women’s shoes in a store window and follows their journey all the way to Auschwitz (pictured).

'Jewish perpetrators' comments not Holocaust denial, Polish gov't says

"The words ...should be interpreted as a sincere call for open discussion of crimes committed against Jews during the Holocaust, regardless of the nationality of those involved in each crime."

PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017.

Senate speaker asks Poles living abroad to report anti-Polish comments

The request by Stanislaw Karczewski comes on the heels of the controversial law outlawing the term "Polish death camps" and any reference to Poland's complicity in the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

On the linguistics of Polish death camps and other things antisemitic

I’m on the side of free speech and informed discussion.

PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017.