SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – The tombstone of a Polish woman who saved a Jewish woman by hiding her in the roof of her barn for two years during the Holocaust was rededicated with a Talmudic ...

“There is the whole Polish background with the ruins of cemeteries ... but I’m sure at the university there are more students from non-Jewish backgrounds.” Tuszewicki is among the growing ...

In the text We, Polish Jews, written in exile in 1944, he explains to Jewish Poles why felt Polish, and to non-Jewish Poles why he felt Jewish. Perhaps his double ethnic identity is best captured in ...

Righteous Gentiles' is the phrase used for those non-Jews who risked their lives to ... almost 5,000 are Polish. What follows are profiles and oral histories of ten Polish rescuers of Jews.

For non-religious Jews, one such important place is the Jewish ... Yet no matter what the future brings, one thing is clear: for the first time in decades, the Polish Jewish community is growing both ...

On a July day in 1941 in Jedwabne – a small town in northeastern Poland – Polish Christians massacred 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors, herding many of them in a barn doused in kerosene and ...

An important lesson of the Now Jewish Nanny’s journey and the families that inspired her is to ask ourselves, if someone worked in our home, lived with our family, was involved in our lives and life ...

Historians estimate that between 1.5 and 1.8 million non-Jewish Polish people died during Nazi occupation. In the Soviet Union, millions of Soviet civilians died as a result of the Nazis’ policies.

For decades after World War II, a long silence engulfed Poland’s Jewish history and the atrocities committed there. Nine in 10 Polish Jews were killed, many survivors left the country ...