Representatives of the North American Board of Rabbis (NABOR) told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that, from a moral point of view, Poland’s claim for war reparations from Germany needs to be resolved. On September 1, 2022, the Polish government presented a comprehensive report detailing the material losses suffered by Poland during the Second World…

Congress’s JUST Act, “Justice For Uncompensated Survivors Todayâ€, was signed into law by President Trump in 2017. It requires the U.S. State Department to issue an annual report that names the European countries that are – and are not – paying Jews and their heirs for property seized by the Nazi Germans and subsequent communist…

Jan Peczkis has developed a comprehensive database that contains his reviews of 1,700 books on many aspects of Polish-Jewish relations. These can be easily accessed through his website at https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org, Jan’s insightful analyses show why Polish-Jewish relations continue to be problematic, largely because of the many distortions that authors, most of whom are Jewish, have…

The annual Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków – a positive example of present-day Polish-Jewish relations Photo caption: Sounding of the Shofar, a ram’s-horn trumpet used by ancient Jews in religious ceremonies and as a battle signal, now sounded at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Source: Jewish Festival Poland website. The annual Jewish Culture Festival in…

Many Jews are now moving to Poland, where they feel safer than in Western Europe, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) wrote in a report from Kraków.  In a website article published on Thursday, FAZ claims that this move is strongly influenced by the war in Ukraine and the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel.…

Outlined below is a brief summary of Polish-Jewish relations during consecutive periods of Polish history. Because it is a summary, it does not address all aspects of the more than one thousand years in which Poles and Polish Jews lived so closely together yet so far apart. For the most part, Polish Jews lived in…

In February 2018, the Polish Parliament passed legislation commonly referred to as Poland’s antidefamation law. The law was an amendment to the “1998 Act on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nationâ€. The purpose of the antidefamation law was to protect the reputation of the Republic…