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Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive
The Ghetto Fighters’ House brings rare archival artifacts and stories to Givatayim for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, linking past resilience to today’s changing world.
When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy
Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group
New York, Berlin, London ramp up Hanukkah security after Bondi Beach shootings
Poles leave chunks of brick outside Israel’s Warsaw embassy in protest
Members of the All-Polish Youth group left large chunks of brick walls on Wednesday with a sign reading “this is your property,” the Polska Times news site reported.
Holocaust restitution: For Poland, none is too much
The Sejm’s new legislation will make it impossible for Jewish claimants or their descendants to recover or be compensated for what was taken from them in Poland.
She vandalized a Holocaust memorial. Now she teaches about antisemitism
Ewa Jasiewicz, who spray-painted the slogan in Poland in 2010, has given three sessions titled “Understanding Antisemitism."
Egyptian mummy thought to be a priest actually pregnant woman - study
In the only known instance of a fetus being embalmed, a mummy mistakenly thought to be a priest for over 150 years was actually a pregnant woman.
Warsaw unveils monument to secret archive documenting Holocaust horror
There are also plans to honor the Oneg Shabbat group with a monument at Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery, AFP reported.
On this day 78 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out
It was the first large-scale revolt by Jews during World War II.
Daughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies
Zabinska-Zawadzki’s older brother, Ryszard Zabinski, died in 2019.
Israeli Holocaust museum allegedly smuggled Warsaw artifacts
The Shem Olam museum near Hadera announced this week that it had obtained 10 sets of tefillin found by construction workers in Warsaw near the entrance to a bunker dug by Jewish fighters.
Secret bunker discovered beneath Warsaw Ghetto in Poland
The bunker was discovered following demolition work at a building site, revealing the structure which had been hidden since World War II.
Warsaw mayor, Chabad light giant Hanukkah menorah amid COVID-19
“All this happens, thanks to Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who is known as the most influential rabbi in contemporary history," said the Warsaw Mayor.