Similar anti-semitic publications of that period included magazines Głos and the Przegląd Wszechpolski . ... Poland's 3.3 million Jews constituted by far the largest Jewish community in Europe, with 30% of the population in Warsaw and other major cities; in some parts of eastern Poland, Jews were the majority of the resident population. ...

The main strain of antisemitism in Poland during this time was motivated by Catholic religious beliefs and centuries-old myths such as the blood libel. This religious-based antisemitism was sometimes joined with an ultra-nationalistic stereotype …

Jan 8, 2025 · A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to equate the Holocaust with the war in Gaza.

Jan 8, 2025 · In the latest case of vandalism targeting Holocaust memorials in Poland, a hateful message was recently scrawled on the city’s Umschlagplatz monument. The structure commemorates the 300,000 Jews...

Jan 2, 2025 · A global antisemitism organization has canceled a Holocaust Memorial Mission to Poland over the Warsaw government’s threat to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe), [15] was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to …

Apr 24, 2023 · In 2019, thousands of Polish nationalists protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw against U.S. efforts to require Poland to compensate Jews whose families lost property during the...

5 days ago · In the center of a forest 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) northeast of Warsaw, ... He also warned of an "alarming normalization" of antisemitism on social media. Politics 01/20/2025 January 20, 2025.

1 day ago · Grzegorz Braun seen shortly after using a fire extinguisher on a Hanukkah menorah in Poland's parliament building in Warsaw, Dec. 12, 2023. ... A vile display of antisemitism in the heart ...

Dec 15, 2024 · In this powerfully argued disquisition, Jan Grabowski explores the mechanisms by which the history of the Holocaust is being distorted, relativized, and even whitewashed in contemporary Poland. Some of these will certainly be familiar to readers of this journal.