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Lies about Polish responsibility for Holocaust threat to national security

Poland could be isolated and its security threatened by Russian misinformation and a slander campaign alleging Polish responsibility for the Holocaust, a government official has warned in a press article.

WWII artefacts found in hidden bunker at Warsaw Ghetto building site secretly ‘smuggled’ out of Poland

The director of the Shem Olam Institute in Israel which took the artefacts said: “The task of transferring the tefillin was done secretly but under the noses of the authorities.” Warsaw City Hall says it is now investigating and added it was “a crime” to not report valuable and historical items found at construction sites.

Poland and Israel sign deal on cooperation in cybersecurity

Poland's Ministry of Defence and the Israel Defense Forces have signed an agreement on cooperation in cyber-security info-sharing.

Yad Vashem researching Polish righteous diplomats - Israeli president

Israel's Holocaust remembrance institute Yad Vashem has been analysing additional documents related to two Polish war-time diplomats in Switzerland that helped save Jews, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin told a Polish honorary consul in Zurich.

Flying the Flag for Poland Abroad... Life as a Polish Diplomat

Katarzyna Rybka-Iwańska, a Polish diplomat serving in Israel, lifts the lid on what it's like to represent Poland abroad.

Family who saved Roman Polański from Holocaust honoured as Righteous Among the Nations

The couple from the village of Wysoka, about 30 kilometres from Kraków, risked their lives by taking in Polański who was 10 at the time after he had escaped along with his father from the Kraków Ghetto in 1943.

Poland extends flight ban to 44 countries

Poland is banning until September 15 direct flights from 44 countries in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the country, in line with the government's regulation published on Wednesday after midnight.

Polish Jazz Festival in Tel Aviv launches on Thursday

A concert by the Marcin Wasilewski Trio in Warsaw's SPATiF club on Thursday will kick-off the Polish Jazz Festival in Tel Aviv, concerts will be performed in Israel and Poland and can be watched online.

The past cannot affect Polish-Israeli relations - Israeli ambassador

History must be remembered and passed on to new generations, but the past cannot affect Polish-Israeli relations, says Israeli Ambassador to Poland, Alexander Ben Zvi.

Polish-Israeli relations thaw with appointment of Israel’s new foreign minister

Following last year’s outburst by then Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz that Poles “suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk”, the appointment of Gabi Ashkenazi has brought an easing of tensions between the two countries.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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