Posts Tagged: Poland and Holocaust
Hungarian PM Orban Urges End to Israeli-Polish Rift Over Holocaust
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban urged Poland and Israel on Tuesday to resolve their dispute over accusations of Polish complicity in the Holocaust, making the appeal in Jerusalem...
Poland Denies Reports of US Ban on High-Level Meetings With Polish Officials
Poland denied on Tuesday media reports alleging that the United States had banned high-level meetings with Polish officials in protest over a new law on the Holocaust that...
Polish ‘Righteous Among Nations’ Issue Plea for Dialogue as Widely-Panned Holocaust Law Takes Effect
Investigators from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) were empowered as of Thursday to begin checking for potential violations of new legislation that criminalizes discussion of...
Polish Minister Says So-Called ‘Polokaust’ Museum Won’t Be Built
Poland's deputy culture minister backed away on Monday from an academic's proposal to build a so-called "Polokaust" museum for Polish victims of the Nazis, at...
Jewish Groups Urge Warsaw to Rethink Legislation That Would Criminalize Blaming Poles for Holocaust-Era Atrocities
A number of major Jewish groups from around the globe have criticized the advancement of legislation in Poland that would make it illegal to claim...
Holocaust History from Pope John Paul II’s Polish Hometown Explored
WADOWICE, POLAND—When Karol Wojtyla left his hometown of Wadowice, Poland, in 1938 to pursue his studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland was an independent...
