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Berlin Biennale showcases contemporary political art [Apr 19, 2012] BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of birch trees from the biggest Nazi death camp, at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, are dotted around Berlin as a living memorial of this dark chapter in Germany's past. The trees, called Birke in German, lent their name to the Birkenau camp where as many as 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, perished between 1940 and 1945. The installation "Berlin-Birkenau" by Polish ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Stay classy, Poland: anti-Semitic t-shirts being sold outside stadium of one of Europe?s most popular soccer teams [Apr 13, 2012] The central Polish city of Lodz was the site of an infamous Nazi death camp during WW II, which makes this all the more tragic. Anti-Semitic t-shirts with slogans such as ?This is Widzew territory, entry to Jews is forbidden? were seen being sold just outside the home stadium of Widzew Lodz, one of Poland?s? [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 14, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 14, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 13, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 13, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 13, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 11, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Mar 11, 2012] Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's 'In Darkness' recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Auschwitz museum seeks return of barracks lent to US [Feb 29, 2012] WARSAW, Feb 29 ? Occupying the site of the biggest Nazi death camp in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum is having trouble getting back a wooden barracks building it rented to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum some 20 years ago, officials said yesterday. As many as 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, perished in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, either ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Auschwitz museum seeks return of barracks lent to U.S. [Feb 28, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Occupying the site of the biggest Nazi death camp in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum is having trouble getting back a wooden barracks building it rented to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum some 20 years ago, officials said Tuesday. As many as 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, perished in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, either in the gas chambers or from freezing ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Jan 18, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Jan 18, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him ... [via YahooNews] More >>

A Polish woman?s heroic journey of self-discovery [Dec 15, 2011] In this Aug. 6 photo, Magdalena Grodzka-Guzkowska, 86, speaks during an interview in Warsaw, Poland about how she rescued Jews during World War II. Grodzka-Guzkowska taught Catholic prayers and customs to Jews during the Nazi occupation of her country, never realizing at the time that she was Jewish herself. [via YahooNews] More >>

Jewish History Museum to open in Warsaw on anniversary of uprising [Sep 30, 2011] An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland?s Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish Jewish museum to open in April 2013 [Sep 26, 2011] Officials say a museum on the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [via YahooNews] More >>

Jewish History Museum to open in Warsaw [Sep 23, 2011] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, officials said Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Museum on Poland's Jews to open next spring [Sep 19, 2011] An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, officials said Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Jewish History Museum to open in Warsaw on anniversary of uprising [Sep 19, 2011] WARSAW, Poland - An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, officials said Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland slams vandalism of Holocaust memorial [Sep 02, 2011] Poland on Thursday voiced outrage at the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in the north of the country dedicated to Jews who were burned alive in a barn by their Polish neighbours during World War II. [via YahooNews] More >>