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Children enjoy a bubble party in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, for Children's Day, June 1, 2023. (Screenshot from YouTube/Kan via JTA)
June 7, 2023, 12:25 am
Polish city throws bubble party on playground over Jewish graves
Chief rabbi of Poland sends letter of complaint to mayor Kazimierz Dolny, says city has refused to engage on protecting remains still buried beneath razed cemetery
By Dinah Spritzer
People attend an anti-government demonstration organized by the opposition in Warsaw on June 4, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
June 4, 2023, 6:20 pm
Half a million march in Polish anti-government protest, say opposition leaders
Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa attends, urges defeat of ruling nationalist PiS party led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski in autumn election
By AFP
File: Protesters shout slogans as they gather in front of the Presidential Palace to show President Andrzej Duda their disapproval after he signed controversial legislation on the Supreme Court into law, in Warsaw, Poland, July 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
June 4, 2023, 11:32 am
Tens of thousands set to march in Poland against law they say harms democracy
Demonstration may be largest since end of communism; opposition says law setting up probe on Russian influence will be used to exclude them from political scene
By Vanessa Gera
Referee Szymon Marciniak officiates at the Europa League round of 16 second leg soccer match between Wolves and Olympiakos at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, England, August 6, 2020. (AP/Rui Vieira)
June 2, 2023, 9:52 am
Champions League finals referee apologizes for ties to far-right Polish leader
Szymon Marciniak allowed to officiate marquee match next week after saying he didn’t know event that he addressed was linked to ‘extreme-right movement’
By Graham Dunbar
Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski stands at the podium for a planned lecture as far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun of Poland’s Confederation party grabs the microphone and smashes it, at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Jan Grabowski via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 1:19 am
Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium
Politician, protesters disrupt speech in Warsaw by historian Jan Grabowski, a vocal critic of Poland’s efforts to constrain Holocaust discussion
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
This handout picture provided by the Polish Institute in Tokyo on May 31, 2023 shows the 16th century baroque painting 'Madonna with Child' attributed to Alessandro Turchi. (Polish Institute in Tokyo/ Przemyslaw Sliwinski via AP)
May 31, 2023, 7:57 pm
Priceless painting looted by Nazis during World War II returns to Poland from Japan
‘Madonna with Child,’ attributed to 16th Century painter Alessandro Turchi; current owner, Japanese authorities agree to hand it back
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
May 31, 2023, 5:38 pm
Auschwitz museum slams use of death camp in Polish ruling party’s political ad
State-run memorial attacks ‘instrumentalization of tragedy’ by Law and Justice party, which used theme of Nazi camp to discourage participation in upcoming anti-government march
By Vanessa Gera
A swastika on the wall of a Jewish cemetery in Oświęcim, Poland, Jan. 10, 2021. (The Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau via JTA)
May 31, 2023, 12:24 pm
Over a third of people in Hungary, Poland have ‘extensive’ antisemitic beliefs – poll
Respondents in 10 European nations asked if they believe stereotypes including ‘Jews have too much power in business world’ and ‘Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars’
By Ben Sales
Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister Donald Tusk watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 28, 2023, 5:32 pm
Polish president seeks experts’ advice on controversial bill targeting opposition
Legislation awaiting Andrzej Duda’s approval would establish state commission to probe Russian influence, but critics see it as power grab by ruling Law and Justice party
By AP
Illustrative: Keshet high school students take an examination in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019 (Courtesy Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 2:05 am
Union says high school teachers to skip parties, Poland trips as wage flap ramps up
Secondary School Teachers’ Association met with backlash from teachers, students and treasury after announcing latest measures to pressure government for higher salaries
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A view of the Górki Czechowskie park in Lublin, Poland. (Park na Górkach Czechowskich)
May 21, 2023, 11:26 pm
World War II-era mass grave discovered in Lublin, Poland
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says he does not know whether the bodies are those of Jews
By ToI Staff
Filmmaker Gary Hochman at the Sobibor excavations in Poland (courtesy)
May 16, 2023, 3:44 am
At Sobibor, a filmmaker unearths Nazi Germany’s attempts to cover up its crimes
Producer Gary Hochman’s ‘Deadly Deception at Sobibor’ depicts how gas chamber ruins and 70,000 artifacts were found at the death camp where approximately 250,000 Jews were murdered
By Matt Lebovic
An ice cream stand sits outside of the former Auschwitz camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Dagmar Kopijasz of the Foundation of Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau)
May 12, 2023, 1:27 am
Auschwitz museum criticizes ‘tasteless’ ice cream stand near iconic ‘Death Gate’
Stall with pink logo placed 200 meters from the landmark structure in the notorious camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1 million Jews
By Canaan Lidor
Sol Nayman hugs a participant of the March of the Living event during Nayman's first visit in 84 years to Stoczek, Poland on April 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 8, 2023, 1:23 am
In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew
During emotional visit, which happened on Hitler’s birthday, Sol Nayman brought to Stoczek about 100 members of the March of the Living event
By Canaan Lidor
Barbara Engelking, a prominent Polish historian. (Yad Vashem via AP)
April 28, 2023, 9:10 pm
Scholars come to defense of Polish Holocaust researcher under fire from government
Over 600 sign letter decrying ‘political attack’ on Barbara Engelking after TV interview in which she said Poles could have done more to help Jews during Nazi occupation
By AP and ToI Staff
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