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Polish far-right MEP stripped of parliamentary immunity for a variety of alleged crimes, including antisemitic incidents

The most controversial and widely reported of the incidents happened in December 2023, when Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles lit during a ceremony in the Polish parliament involving Polish-Jewish leaders.

Far-right MEP who disrupted minute of silence during IHRD sanctioned

He will also be sidelined from parliamentary activities for a month and prohibited from attending next year’s Holocaust memorial.

Polish government unveils a monument to honour Poles killed for aiding Jews during the Holocaust

The new monument, featuring inscriptions in Polish, English and Hebrew, has been installed in Ciepielów, a town of just 770 people in central-eastern Poland.

Rose Girone, believed to be oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies aged 113

Girone was one of about 245,000 survivors still living across more than 90 countries, according to a study released by the Claims Conference last year.

Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor and journalist, dies at 98

In 1944 he was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, where both his father and brother died.

Holocaust survivor Mordechai Ciechanower dies at 100

Ciechanover was born in 1924 in the Polish town of Maków Mazowiecki. To survive two years in Auschwitz, he worked as a roofer, repairing barracks in the camp. He was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and later that year immigrated to Israel.
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