Who Was Karoline Cohn?
Recent archeological digs at the site of the former Nazi extermination camp, Sobibór, have unearthed personal effects belonging to victims of the Holocaust. Archaeologists have…
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Paths, Places and Spaces of Nazi Persecution
The new yearbook of the International Tracing Service (ITS), which came out in November 2016, focuses on the spatial dimension of the Holocaust and other…
About Jedwabne: We Need to Stop Screaming at Each Other
We, Poles, cannot bring ourselves to utter the word ‘forgiveness’. We continue to weigh and measure relative guilt and to instruct others on what they…
WJRO Disappointed with Decision by Polish Constitutional Tribunal on Law Limiting Warsaw Restitution Claims
NEW YORK, July 27 – The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) expressed disappointment with the decision today by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to affirm the…
World Jewish Congress President: Polish officials must immediately apologize for remarks questioning Poles’ involvement in murder of Jews during WWII
NEW YORK – World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder today strongly criticized statements made by high-ranking Polish officials regarding the involvement of Poles…
Third Annual Ride For The Living
JCC Krakow Announces Third Annual Ride For The Living & Partnership With JCC Association The Third Annual Ride For The Living will take place on Friday,…
New London mayor attends Shoah memorial in first public engagement
London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, on Sunday attended a ceremony in the British capital to commemorate the murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany….
New eBook Unveils the World’s First Jewish Ghetto
Commemorating 500 Years to the Venice ghetto in a new interactive eBook by the World Jewish Heritage Fund. As Israel prepares to mark the annual…
Croatian Jews boycott official Shoah memorial
The Jewish community of Croatia will not participate in the country’s official Holocaust commemoration in protest against the Croatian government’s inaction against growing neo-Nazi activity…
Helena Datner about Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Helena Datner is a historian and sociologist, she has also been actively involved in work for the Jewish community. She is the daughter of a…
Heritage? – I’ll take it ‘as is’
Seweryn Aszkenazy, a Polish-Jewish businessman who has spent most of his life in the United States, has been accusing Polish Jews of fraud in the…