Polish death camps

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Having moved from the horrors of the Holocaust to dedicating his life to the revival of the Jewish state, his experiences are the essence of the story of the Jewish people in the 20th century.

|ByELI ASHKENAZI
Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.
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.

Polish foreign minister formalizes request for German WW2 reparations

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

|ByREUTERS
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

Menachem Rosensaft, a second-generation survivor leader and a political activist is also a poet, whose newest work reveals that although he left Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen has never left him.

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

Why I have no regrets about visiting Poland

“Now that we’re that close to Europe, it makes sense to go there,” she told me. At first I was very uncomfortable with the idea.

|ByROBERT HERSOWITZ

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.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018ByAVRAHAM GOLD
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.

FEBRUARY 6, 2018ByVIVIAN BERCOVICI
PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017.

Work with our Polish friends – while confronting our Polish enemies

Center field

FEBRUARY 6, 2018ByGIL TROY
Survivors and guests walk inside the barbed wire fences at Auschwitz, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2018.

Israel to work with Poland to ‘defend and reveal’ truth about Holocaust

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said, 'Above all, future generations must internalize the lessons of the Holocaust.'

FEBRUARY 6, 2018ByHERB KEINON
The memorial wall in dedication to the 36 diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Polish government cancels scheduled Bennett visit over Holocaust remarks

“The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground, and no law will silence it. The Government of Poland cancelled my visit, because I mentioned the crimes of its people. I am honored.”

FEBRUARY 5, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI, HERB KEINON
Naftali Bennett

Bennett to visit Poland to relay Israel’s opposition to Polish bill

“I came to tell the truth in the place where the truth happened and it is not dependent on any law.”

FEBRUARY 5, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
NAFTALI BENNETT: Iran must be forced to choose between the nuclear path and a prosperous economy

What do Holocaust survivors think of ‘Polish death camps’?

Whitewashing history “can be done more easily when our generation is not here, so it’s very important that we have to fight it.”

FEBRUARY 3, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

Pressure mounts on Poland to back away from Holocaust bill

Antisemitism has resurfaced amid the debate over a bill that would criminalize suggesting complicity on the part of the Polish nation or state in Nazi Germany's crimes.

FEBRUARY 3, 2018ByREUTERS
Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in the snow

Yad Vashem: Polish law 'jeopardizes free and open discussion' about Holocaust

Israel's Holocaust remembrance center said the law is "liable to blur historial truths."

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Israeli politicians slam Poland for passing controversial Holocaust law

The Polish parliament on Thursday passed a law that makes suggesting Polish complicity or participation in the Holocaust punishable by prison time or a fine.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN, SHOSHANA KRANISH
A sign reading "Stop" in German and Polish is placed outside the gates to Auschwitz to mark the anniversary of its liberation, January 2018