As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...

(RNS) — When I arrived in Warsaw, my hosts took me to the apartment in which I would be staying. “You will stay here,” they said. “You will stay here.” — I had heard that line before. Consider an old ...

Explore the complexities of Poland today and its relation to Jewish history and memory in a post-Holocaust context.

(AP) The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw’s former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to ...

A new museum of Jewish history opens in Poland this week to refocus attention on a vibrant community that has lived in the country for centuries but whose history, for many, has been eclipsed by the ...

(JTA) — WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has ...

More than six decades after the Nazis emptied the Warsaw Ghetto — killing its remaining Jewish inhabitants or sending them to death camps — a museum about the history of Polish Jewry in the millennia ...

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier conveys the love and ideals of a large Jewish clan in a place where Jewish lives were always endangered.

(JTA) In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn ...

On a July day in 1941 in Jedwabne – a small town in northeastern Poland – Polish Christians massacred 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors, herding many of them in a barn doused in kerosene and burning the ...

The family of a Bronx baker donates a ritual heirloom to a Warsaw museum as a gesture of remembrance and healing. Like Dave and Benji, the oddly matched cousins in Jesse Eisenberg’s new feature film, ...