(JTA) — When Jews gathered this week for the anniversary of a World War II massacre in the Polish town of Jedwabne, they saw a new installation — one that denied a historical consensus about the ...

The play, about the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, in which residents of a Polish village murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, is now on stage at BAM. Variations of this question are asked again and ...

Writing a comprehensive history of Polish citizens during the Holocaust is a hefty task. A Polish law that criminalizes any mention of Polish responsibility for or complicity in Nazi crimes makes it ...

JEDWABNE, Poland (AP) _ Seeking to atone for a wartime massacre of Jewish villagers blamed for decades on Nazi troops, Poland's president formally admitted at a ceremony Tuesday that Poles carried out ...

The remains of victims from the Jedwabne pogrom were reburied at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the massacre in the Polish town. Dozens of people gathered Wednesday at the site in Jedwabne ...

A Polish Jesuit used disguises and cunning to save Jews from the Holocaust, refusing three chances to escape his own ...

Bialystok, 9 July 2002 (RFE/RL) -- Prosecutors in Poland said today that local men, not Nazi soldiers, played a decisive role in a World War II pogrom in the northwestern Polish village of Jedwabne.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) Reflecting native son Pope John Paul II s efforts to reach out to Jews, Poland s Roman Catholic bishops made a historic apology Sunday not only for a 1941 massacre of Jews in ...

(Excerpt from "The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" by Mordecai Paldiel, KTAV Publishing House, Inc. Hoboken, N.J. 1993.) When Germany invaded Poland on September ...

WARSAW, Poland – Sixty years after as many as 1,600 Jews were killed in eight hours in a village in northeast Poland, the nation’s president on Tuesday offered a strong apology. It was not Nazi ...