A documentary about the murder of five Jews in a Polish town is being threatened with a ban in Poland — not because they were ...

The Catholic Church beatified a Polish family that sheltered Jews during World War II on Sunday, calling them "a ray of light in the darkness." The Latin formula of the Ulma family's beatification was ...

Daniel Tilles at Notes from Poland ("founded in Kraków in 2014 by Stanley Bill, Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge") reports: Poland's broadcasting regulator has ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda took part in nationwide observances Friday to honor Poles who risked — and often lost — their lives trying to save Jews from the Holocaust during the Nazi German ...

Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes it ...

Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II; By Judy Rakwosky; Sourcebooks; 384 pp., $17.99 A veteran reporter who spent years ...

Because SS soldiers used the Nożyk Synagogue as a warehouse and horse stable during World War II, it was the only major Jewish synagogue the Nazis did not destroy in Poland's capital city of Warsaw.

Poland has handed over 91 Jewish ritual objects stolen from Greek synagogues by Nazi Germany during World War II, in a first-of-its-kind restitution under Polish law, officials have said.

Selections from a recent book on the Nazi occupation of Poland and Polish Jews. These excerpts deal with Germany's brutal treatment of Poland, Polish antisemitism, and the Nazis' vast genocidal ...

To date, no nationwide demographic reconstruction has confirmed 200,000, 100,000, or even 50,000 Jews killed by Poles. The absence of such confirmation does not minimize the crimes that did occur. It ...

Though anti-Semitism has a long and virulent history in Poland, Jews form a vital and powerful segment of the present Polish government. As in other countries in Eastern Europe, the roots of the ...