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“While many Holocaust films focus on the atrocities committed by the Nazis, “Among Neighbors” shifts the lens to the Polish people and what occurred after the war”

JEWISH JOURNAL ‘Among Neighbors’: A Dark Secret Hidden in History Ayala Or-El October 15, 2025 “Among Neighbors,’” Yoav Potash’s new documentary, tells the story of the small Polish town of Gniewoszów and a dark secret the Polish government has been … Continue reading

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“Israeli authorities have indicated that Prime Minister Netanyahu will not attend the ceremony to avoid potential arrest”

JPOST Holocaust Memorial Mission to Poland canceled due to threats of arrest of Israeli PM January 1, 2024 The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) announced on Monday the cancellation of its Holocaust Memorial Mission of … Continue reading

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Braun launched into an antisemitic rant after attacking the menorah, telling those who berated him that they were the ones who should feel “ashamed to participate in the acts of a Satanic Talmudic cult.”

ALGEMEINER Fury as Antisemitic Polish MP Extinguishes Candles on Hanukkah Menorah in Parliament Building Ben Cohen December 12, 2023 A viscerally antisemitic member of the Polish parliament was expelled from the chamber on Tuesday after he extinguished the candles of … Continue reading

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“Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” (another reminder that Wikipedia articles are not always reliably accurate)

JTA Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust Asaf Elia-Shalev February 28, 2023 When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to … Continue reading

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“In the 14-minute film was a three-minute section of their visit to Kurtz’s grandfather’s home village of #Nasielsk, #Poland, a town whose Jewish community would be decimated by the #Holocaust not long after”

JTA How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary Stephen Silver August 26, 2022 In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home … Continue reading

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“It was the Lion of Judah engraved on the door of a synagogue that helped him identify it as his grandfather’s hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw”

NEW YORK POST Devastating lost footage of Polish Jews revealed in new Holocaust doc Johnny Oleksinski August 19, 2022 One day in 2009, Glenn Kurtz made a shocking discovery. In the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home of his late grandfather … Continue reading

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#Lapid: “The Poles wanted to mess with the content of the trips”

I24NEWS Israel cancels youth trips to Poland over ‘educative manipulations’ June 15, 2022 Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced at a briefing on Wednesday that youth trips to Poland were banned over attempts to manipulate educational content presented to Israeli … Continue reading

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“A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?”

TABLET MAG A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel by Shalom Goldman September 23, 2021 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, published The Books of Jacob in 2014. The novel follows the messianic religious … Continue reading

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“While the law does not mention Jews, the Holocaust or World War II, it ensures that an administrative decision rendered more than 30 years ago could no longer be challenged”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Will Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel, Jewish community? by Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS and ILH Staff August 18, 2021 Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a … Continue reading

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“Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians”

TABLET MAG The Polish Government’s Holocaust ‘Truth Campaign’ Is a Weird Mix of Authoritarianism, Ignorance, and Injured Pride by Havi Dreifuss February 25, 2021 …[Poland’s] new law deputized the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)—a central institution with state-sponsored prosecution powers—to … Continue reading

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