Poland

March 8, 2019, 1:56 pm

Women who wow

Today is International Women's Day. Rebecca Davis and Sophie Deutsch celebrate a few remarkable women of the community.

By Rebecca Davis

Holocaust survivors protesting in front of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv in February. Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images

July 5, 2018, 12:00 am

Poland backtracks on Holocaust law

Benjamin Netanyahu said that by securing the Polish concession, his team "upheld our prime duty to ensure the historic truth about the Holocaust."

By Nathan Jeffay

March of the Living participants at Auschwitz. Photo: Emmanuel Santos

April 13, 2018, 11:29 am

‘We are still here’

This Yom Hashoah marks the 30th anniversary of March of the Living. Participants from over the years share their very personal highs and lows with Rebecca Davis.

By Rebecca Davis

March 25, 2018, 12:00 am

Israeli mayor’s speech canned in Poland

An Israeli mayor's Holocaust comments were censored in Poland this week. If anyone was wondering what the controversial new Polish law will mean in practice, this is it.

By Nathan Jeffay

Dr Kamila Klausinska, Fay Sussman and Judy Menczel.

March 23, 2018, 12:00 am

ABC doco tells of pilgrimage to Poland

Australian musician Fay Sussman embarked on a moving pilgrimage to Poland, which has been recorded in a captivating documentary called Fay's Journey, set to screen on ABC's Compass program on March 24 at 6pm.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland.

February 9, 2018, 2:54 pm

A blow to all who cherish historical truth

Poland has enacted a problematic law, the international community has been shamefully quiet, and Israeli diplomacy failed when it was needed.

By Nathan Jeffay

Polish President Andrzej Duda. Photo: Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

February 9, 2018, 2:24 pm

‘The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground’

Poland's President dealt a major blow to Israel and Jewish groups on Tuesday, announcing that he will ratify a controversial new Holocaust law.

By Nathan Jeffay

The entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

February 1, 2018, 5:18 pm

New Polish Shoah legislation slammed

Israelis say that the parliament in Warsaw has no right to prescribe prison sentences for people who suggest that Poland bore responsibility for the Holocaust – and top scholars share their dismay.

By Nathan Jeffay

A view of the gas chamber at Stutthof. Photo: Bruce Adams-Pool/Getty Images

December 7, 2017, 11:00 am

Outrage over naked game at death camp

Poland's interior minister has instructed prosecutors to follow up on an investigation by groups representing Holocaust survivors on a video featuring nudity that was filmed at a former death camp in the country.

The only wartime photo of Francine, taken in Brussels in 1942.

July 13, 2017, 12:01 am

A child survivor’s story

Through the kindness of strangers, toddler Francine Lazarus was able to survive World War II, and recounted her amazing story to Yael Brender.

By Yael Brender

Israel Kipen is remembered as a philanthropist and a pioneer.

July 10, 2017, 12:01 am

Schools pioneer mourned

ISRAEL Kipen, Holocaust survivor, philanthropist and Jewish day schools pioneer, has passed away at 98. Kipen was among a small circle that founded Mount Scopus Memorial College, Australia’s first Jewish day school, in 1948.

By Peter Kohn

March 10, 2017, 12:01 am

Lermer mourned

TOUGHENED by his devastating journey through the Shoah, but summoning a spirit of optimism and reconciliation – that is how family, friends and colleagues at the Jewish Holocaust Centre remember Willy Lermer.

February 27, 2017, 12:01 am

Miracle letter discovered

A CHANCE discovery in Holland last year has resulted in 94-year-old Sydney Holocaust survivor Harry Fransman receiving the unimaginable in the post.

Nazi camps like Plazszow must be referred to as a “Nazi death camp in Poland", not a "Polish death camp.

August 17, 2016, 3:46 pm

Jail for users of term ‘Polish death camps’

The Polish government has proposed a bill that would make the use of terms like “Polish death camps” a crime punishable by jail time.

Ann Drillich has been fighting the Polish authorities for years for the return of her family's estate.

July 26, 2016, 11:15 am

False premises

Australian-Polish doctor, Ann Drillich, talks to Peter Kohn about her epic struggle with Poland’s authorities to reclaim an extensive family estate stolen in the Holocaust.

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