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 ...

JTA — Lost in Thursday’s kerfuffle over whether the US Coast Guard would no longer consider the swastika as a symbol of hate was a far more troubling development in antisemitism. The new US ambassador ...

Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived in the mountains of Siberia.

Karol Nawrocki speaks to supporters following the Polish presidential runoff election, June 1 in Warsaw. (Marek Antoni Iwaczuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing ...

On April 7th, 1943, the Gestapo rounded up 1,100 Jews in a forest near the village of Plebanówka, Poland and shot them. The Germans and their accomplices used bloodhounds, burned down houses and ...

JERUSALEM/WARSAW (Reuters) - Israel called on Poland on Saturday to amend a bill approved this week by Polish lawmakers that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for crimes ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's president signed into law on Tuesday a bill that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, prompting sharp criticism from Israel and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie paints a psychological portrait of Poland from the perspective of people living on Holocaust sites today. “Through a ...

Jan Grabowski spent more than 10 years conducting his research, including going through Polish archives, private diaries and records from more than 100 small towns where Jews lived in high ...

(JTA) — Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland.