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Vanessa Gera

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
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
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on its grounds, Oswiecim, Poland, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
May 15, 2023, 11:24 am
Auschwitz museum begins heartrending work preserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In two-year effort, museum processing 100 shoes a week while other evidence, such as hair shaved from victims, turns to dust as the years pass since Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
Albert Stankowski, left, the director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Anna Stupnicka-Bando, center, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, and Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, attend a ceremony for the burial of a 'time capsule' on the grounds of the museum in Warsaw, Poland, on April 18, 2023. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
April 19, 2023, 12:23 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered 80 years on, with Herzog to attend
With no surviving fighters still alive, responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory is passing from witnesses to younger generations
By Vanessa Gera
US Second Gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, visits the Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory Museum in Krakow, Poland, January 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
January 28, 2023, 8:13 pm
Doug Emhoff says ‘solemn’ visit to Auschwitz key to antisemitism fight
Touring camp on 78th anniversary of its liberation, husband of US vice president decries ‘epidemic of hate’ against Jewish people
By Vanessa Gera
People walk next to the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
January 27, 2023, 4:37 pm
Auschwitz liberation marked without Russia, as European peace again shattered by war
None of Putin’s officials invited to annual event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as Moscow’s war on Ukraine continues
By Vanessa Gera
Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, right, light a candle during a Hanukkah ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 19, 2022, 11:46 pm
At Hanukkah reception, Polish president thanks Jews for aiding Ukrainian refugees
Andrzej Duda notes that country’s Jewish community has been active in organizing housing, food, education and other services for Ukrainian Jews and non-Jews alike
By Vanessa Gera
Thousands of people gather in Warsaw for a yearly Independence Day march organized by nationalist groups that has been marked by violence in past years in Poland, Nov. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
November 13, 2022, 8:56 am
Polish Independence Day march features Nazi symbol, calls to burn Jews
Opposition lawmakers slam police for detaining anti-fascist activists in Warsaw but not reacting to Nazi symbol; in Krakow, crowd chants, ‘Down with the Jewish occupation’
By Vanessa Gera
The Nobel diploma and medal in physiology or medicine presented to Charles M. Rice is displayed, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)
September 30, 2022, 12:20 pm
‘Not a lot of peace’: Nobel season arrives amid Ukraine war, fears of nuke disaster
Experts say peace prize unlikely to honor Zelensky or the people of Ukraine amid a difficult search for a winner
By Vanessa Gera
Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, hugs Holocaust survivor Lydia Maksimovicz, right, in Oswiecim, Poland, September 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
September 28, 2022, 5:21 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers message against hatred in first visit to Auschwitz 
The former California governor and ‘Terminator’ actor meets with Holocaust survivors, vows to ‘fight prejudice together’ and return to the notorious death camp in the future
By Vanessa Gera and Rafal Niedzielski
Illustrative: Roger Waters poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Roger Waters Us + Them' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sepember 6, 2019. (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)
September 26, 2022, 8:25 pm
Polish city says it canceled Roger Waters concerts over his support for Russia
‘He doesn’t realize the truth,’ Krakow councilman says of the Pink Floyd co-founder who has blamed NATO and Ukraine; previous reports said Waters had canceled the gigs
By Vanessa Gera
A photographic illustration shows a mobile phone near the NSO Group company logo in the Israeli city of Netanya on February 9, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 21, 2022, 6:19 pm
European spyware investigators criticize Israel over sale of Pegasus software
EU lawmakers accuse Israeli government of lacking transparency in granting export licenses for NSO Group products, particularly criticizing usage by Poland and Hungary
By Vanessa Gera
Sweden Democrats' party leader Jimmie Åkesson campaigns at Stortorget in Malmo, Sweden, September 10, 2022, the day before the election. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP)
September 11, 2022, 3:31 am
Close battle, populists on the rise: What to know as Sweden holds elections
PM Magdalena Andersson, who heads a left-wing coalition, is trying to fend off right-wing rivals, including a party that has tried to rebrand away from far-right image
By Vanessa Gera
Taisiia Mokrozub, a Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhzhia, holds her son Hordii during an interview with The Associated Press in a flat in Pruszkow, Poland, August 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
August 22, 2022, 12:04 pm
‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians who fled invasion long for home as war nears 6-month mark
Many who left their homes after Russia invaded face sad realization they will not return soon, having initially believed the fighting would end quickly
By Vanessa Gera and Kirsten Grieshaber
Ukrainian refugee children gather outside the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
July 30, 2022, 11:16 am
In Warsaw, Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp
Volunteers draw on Jewish experiences with suffering to aid refugee children traumatized by war and help them prepare for a new school year in Poland
By Vanessa Gera
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