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Poland

Chulpan Khamatova in “Our Class.” (Irina Danilova)
Posted inTheater

When betrayal leads to murder: ‘Our Class,’ set in 1941, coming to S.F. stage

by Sue Fishkoff March 6, 2026March 10, 2026

In July 1941, in a small village in Nazi-occupied Poland, hundreds of Jews were burned to death in a barn — not by the Nazis, but by their own non-Jewish […]

Ceremonial finials
Posted inWorld

Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov March 4, 2026March 4, 2026
Witold Wrzosinski
Posted inWorld

Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired amid clash over who controls the preservation of Poland’s Jewish past

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov December 22, 2025December 22, 2025
A still from "Among Neighbors" with Pelagia Radecka, who was an eyewitness to murder as a child. (Courtesy)
Posted inFilm

One day to see ‘Among Neighbors,’ the local film causing controversy in Poland

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 11, 2025December 11, 2025
Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inFilm

Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025
Janina Jaworska is featured in "Among Neighbors." (Courtesy of 8 Above)
Posted inFilm

Bay Area-linked documentary about post-war Polish village reveals dark secrets

by Sue Fishkoff October 10, 2025October 11, 2025
Holocaust survivors Esther and Zygmunt Binder, the author's parents, in Detroit in 1975. (Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

A little-known Polish story comes to life in bestselling memoir

by Sue Fishkoff October 8, 2025October 9, 2025
Larry Sokoloff with his family's Torah, which now lives at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto.
Posted inFirst Person

My family’s Torah was written in Poland about a century ago. It has a new home in Palo Alto

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff August 11, 2023August 11, 2023
a graphic of the Wikipedia article "The Holocaust in Poland" with a magnifying glass superimposed on it
Posted inTech

Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev May 23, 2023
Jews move along a crowded street in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inWorld

Wikipedia tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust history

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 28, 2023March 6, 2023

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