Opinion | Gagging History, Un-Gagging Hate
The debate over Poland’s new ‘Holocaust law’ stokes rising anti-Semitism.
Jewish Poland: A Lost Connection, a Forgotten Identity
“What did I have of a childhood? Nothing!” she exclaims, because from her childhood she remembers mostly the lack of food, missed years of education and years spent in Siberia to escape the Nazi occupation. It is hard to say she really grew up in Poland, hard to find something for which she is grateful.
Auschwitz, in 2011
by Kayla Green
Today marks Yom HaShoah, the day we commemorate those killed during the Holocaust. Across the world, people share stories of those who survived...
The Holocaust Today
By Symi Rom-Rymer
January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 years after the liberation,...
People of the Book: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The story of Jewish Eastern European immigration is a familiar one. Even if one never had the chance to know their relatives from...
Neo-Nazi Karma
By Niv Elis
In what must be a neo-Nazi's worst nightmare, two Polish skinheads (a married couple) discovered that they are, in fact, Jewish.
Joining the ranks...
When Good Intentions Meet Reality
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In a recent posting on the Washington Post's OnFaith blog, a Rabbi and law professor recount their experience on a joint US Jewish-Muslim...
A Polish Education
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Across Poland, a new form of Jewish remembrance is taking place. Inmates from 10 different prisons are contributing their manpower to a country-wide...
Germany and Poland Revisited
By Symi Rom-Rymer
When Helen Thomas declared recently that Jews have no place in Israel and should go home to Germany and Poland, she unleashed a...
The Jews of Modern Poland
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The New York Times recently published a piece recently about a former Polish neo-Nazi who discovered his Jewish roots as an adult and...
A Declaration of War
Well, the mystery is solved…sort of. The infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign stolen from Auschwitz on December 18 has been recovered on the other side...
Do You Want to Friend Heino?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
"My name is Henio Zytomirski. I am seven-years-old. I live on 3 Szewska Street in Lublin.” So begins the profile of Heino Zytomirski, a young...