Almost a third of the population of the Polish capital was made up of Jews before World War II. They had been an integral party of the city on the Vistula for centuries. July 22, 1942, would mark ...

How the Zionist movement and the Yishuv actively sought to help Polish and other European Jews in the 1930s In European and Holocaust ... could not be achieved in the years just prior to World War II ...

Though several Warsaw sights (think: the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Warsaw Uprising Monument) pay homage to Polish Jews who lost their lives during World War II, one of the city's best ...

After all, Poland has had the unfortunate reputation as the location where millions of Jewish people died during World War II. In fact, many abroad still see the country as the site of Nazi ...

The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was ...

Some estimate that by the middle of the 16th century, three-quarters of the world's Jews lived in Poland. On the eve of World War II, there were about 3.5 million Polish Jews, or about 10% of the ...

Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.

The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity. WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of ...

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 ...

By Sam Roberts Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to ... Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which he had helped to establish ...