80th anniversary of the 1946 Kielce pogrom

He emphasised that genuine dialogue and personal encounter between Christians and Jews remain essential to overcoming prejudice.

The European Parliament in Strasbourg has voted to lift parliamentary immunity from four Polish Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), including Grzegorz Braun, in a move that clears the way for national proceedings to advance. The decision follows a recommendation by the Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). While the vote covered several politicians, it […]

Polish parliament member Konrad Berkowicz displayed the Nazi swastika at the Sejm (“parliament”). He claimed Israel is responsible for a death rate of Gaza children “greater by the dozens” than the death rate of children in Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion. “Israel is the new Third Reich,” Berkowicz said, and unfurled a blue-and-white flag with the Star of […]

Braun, who is already separately on trial for attacking a Hanukkah ceremony, will now face prosecution for his claim that the gas chambers at Auschwitz are “fake” as well as for various antisemitic incidents.

Braun, who has a long history of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, declared in court that he was facing trial because he had “dared to defend myself against Jewish supremacy”.

Amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism, Braun declared: “Jews want to be super-humans in Poland, entitled to a better status, and the Polish police dance to their tune.”

The event has been cancelled after organisers said they received a “wave of hate and threats from antisemitic organisations”, stoked by far-right leader and member of the European Parliament Grzegorz Braun.

Michael Smuss, who fought Nazi soldiers with Molotov cocktails during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of World War II and became a painter after the war to process his trauma, has died.

“We are honouring an ordinary, simple man who demonstrated extraordinary heroism,” Białystok Mayor Tadeusz Truskolaski said. “His deed was like a beam of light in the dark—a sign of hope that evil can be defeated.”

The Mayor of Łódź joined dignitaries and a Holocaust survivor in a march to honour victims of the city’s infamous former ghetto.

According to the prosecutor’s office, Braun denied — “in public and contrary to established facts” — the genocide the Nazis carried out at Auschwitz between 1941 and 1944, in particular the murder of Jews and other victims using gas chambers.

Radosław Sikorski criticised far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun, who has questioned the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.