Tag: Poland

The subject of a Jewish woman is rare in Kaufmann's work, making this particular painting very unique.

Secy-Gen. Stoltenberg to Lithuanian PM: "With NATO you will never lose that independence."

Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, buy were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers.

Tourism to Israel continues to rise, says Minister Yariv Levin, especially from China.

One hopes that the trial would discover what possessed the two middle-aged Belgians to desire to take home some of it.

There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.

The president of Poland laid a bouquet of flowers on the grave of Yoni Netanyahu, who he said was "a hero."

A 21-year-old local resident named Daniel allegedly threw a firecracker at an Elk café called Kebab Prince, then was stabbed to death by the Arab staff.

After three-quarters of a century, a phone call changed the lives of two people who thought they were alone in the world.

Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.

The prime minister of Poland was involved in a complex motor vehicle accident in Israel.

Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres, who took part in establishing Israel's security apparatus and served 48 consecutive years as MK passed away following a stroke.

IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.

A senior IAF official said said the Americans downed Israeli planes in dogfights, "but we downed them, too."

Tadeusz Slowikowski, 86, is responsible for the Nazi gold train rumor and has spent much of his time since the 1950s searching for that train.

The last Polish Jew who managed to survive the Sobibor Nazi death camp has passed away at the age of 90.

A few of them looked to be over five hundred years old due to some of the variant letter shapes and tagim (crowns) that are no longer used.

The draft refers ten times to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.

The Israel portion of the Mission begins with an private audience with Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."

Katowice was the birthplace of both Chovevei Tzion and Agudat Yisrael. Before the Shoah the city had a Jewish population of more than nine thousand.

When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.

Gas company workers were doing maintenance work on a pipeline when they discovered the bones.

Elbit Systems was selected to provide a real-time combat training and accompanying equipment for the special forces of the Polish Army

Polish-born Prof. Jan T. Gross wrote that although the Poles resisted the Nazis, they outdid them in murdering Jews.

A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.

The gang's members, 12-14-years old, photographed the victim after the attack.

The death bed confessions of a former Nazi soldier revealed the whereabouts of the “Nazi train” which remained hidden for decades in tunnels in Poland and is thought to contain gold, art and other valuables.

The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."

Shavei Israel and the Jewish community of Lodz will open the first Jewish kindergarten in the city since World War II.