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Poland

Israeli organisation donates 2,000 boxes of matzah for Polish Jews

Close to 2,000 boxes of matzah were delivered to the Jewish community in Poland ahead of the Passover holiday.

Polish Holocaust mass grave monument vandalised

Two swastikas were painted on a monument marking the mass graves of 2,000 Jews from Otwock, in central Poland.

Poland says Holocaust denier David Irving not welcome on death camp tour

Poland has said it will bar entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving if he plans to present his opinion on the Nazi genocide of Jews during his planned tour of death camps.

Polish prosecutors will not reopen case into Jedwabne pogrom

The Polish National Prosecutor’s Office has decided that there are no grounds for re-exhuming the victims of the 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne.

Front page of Polish newspaper runs piece on ‘how to spot a Jew’

A right-wing newspaper with national distribution in Poland ran on its front page an article that instructs readers on “how to recognise a Jew.”

Poland weighs exhumations at pogrom site

The Polish government is reconsidering whether to exhume human remains at a World War II-era site where Jews were burned alive by Polish neighbors.

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