One letter from a prisoner at Auschwitz to a recipient in the city of Kraków had a starting price of €500.
Holocaust
Last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter dies
Michael Smuss passed away, aged 99, at a care home in Israel.
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Jewish museums in Poland “outraged” by Israelis’ “illegal” removal of artefacts from Warsaw Ghetto
Authorities in Warsaw will notify police of a crime.
Upamiętnienie czy rekreacja? Spory o były obóz koncentracyjny KL Plaszow
Edyta Gawron (text also available in English) Opinię publiczną podzieliły spory dotyczące upamiętnienia byłego nazistowskiego obozu koncentracyjnego KL Plaszow w Krakowie i istniejącego tam wcześniej cmentarza żydowskiego. Choć to miejsce tragedii tysięcy więźniów...
“A hidden hero”: documents reveal how Polish consul helped Jewish WWII refugees
Juliette Bretan
Wojciech Rychlewicz provided Jews with false Catholic baptismal certificates.
Roman Polański honours Polish family who saved him from the Holocaust
“She provided me with shelter, putting her own life and that of her family in danger,” said the director.
Wywiad: Żydowscy policjanci byli jednocześnie narzędziem i ofiarami Zagłady
Agnieszka Wądołowska
Historia żydowskich policjantów to jedno z najbardziej złożonych zagadnień w badaniach nad Holocaustem.
Interview: Jewish ghetto police were both “a tool and a victim of the Holocaust”
Agnieszka Wądołowska
We speak with historian Katarzyna Person about her award-winning research.
Splintered histories: confronting the legacy of wartime pogroms in rural Poland
Agnieszka Wądołowska
A family secret led an author to explore a painful issue.
Poles see Auschwitz primarily as site of Polish martyrdom not Jewish suffering, finds study
The research also finds significant gaps in factual knowledge about the camp’s victims among Poles.
London play about Polish WW2 hero Karski offers powerful lessons from the Holocaust
Stanisław Skarżyński
The story of a Polish underground courier raises uncomfortable questions about our responses to genocide.
“Do not be indifferent”: the most powerful (and political) moments from Auschwitz commemoration
Amid the commemorations, politics was never far from the surface.
Polish MEP condemned for comparing treatment of animals to Nazi camps
Sylwia Spurek has been criticised for a Twitter post depicting cattle as Jews in concentration camps.
We must fight anti-Polonism just as we have fought antisemitism, says Polish PM
The prime minister also supported President Duda’s decision not to travel to Israel to “listen to Putin’s lies”.
