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Ari Richter’s, ‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,’ explores the intersection of his family’s Holocaust history and Jewish identity.
As Judy and Sam return to Poland again and again, fresh obstacles emerge. In 2000 the U.S.-based Polish historian Jan Gross published “Neighbors,” a book that presents substantial evidence of ...
Grabowski’s 496-page book is now available on Yad Vashem’s website. Grabowski has written numerous books and articles focusing on the Holocaust in Poland.
The Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb was born 100 years ago, into a world that no longer exists. In 1923, Lodz was home to the second-largest Jewish community in Poland, about 250,000 Jews, more ...
Like Janicka, Grabowski is part of what has been called the "new Polish school of Holocaust history" – born after the publication, in 2000, of an influential book: Neighbors, by Jan T. Gross.
A groundbreaking book by the U.S. writer and daughter of survivors, Helen Epstein, was published at that time, titled Children of the Holocaust. It was one of the first books to explore ...
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Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland
Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...
Three years later, the government implemented a law steeped in grievance over how Poland’s World War II history is described. The 2018 memory law forbids any expression describing complicity by ...
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II; By Judy Rakwosky; Sourcebooks; 384 pp., $17.99 A veteran reporter who spent ...
Poland is the place where the Holocaust was perpetrated; it’s here, on pre-war Polish territory, that close to five million out of six million Jews were put to death. Out of three million Polish ...
Czeslawa Kwoka, a Catholic Polish girl, was murdered at Auschwitz on March 12, 1943. She was 14 years old. Until her deportation three months earlier, Czeslawa had rarely left her village in ...
Holocaust survivors and other participants gather on April 18, 2023, for the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.