Warsaw Offers Rare View of Jewish Holiday
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Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland.
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Visiting officials of an influential Jewish organisation say they believe that the list of Jewish community's property to be restored would be completed within a few weeks.
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When the notices went up in Kiev ordering the Jews to gather on the corner of Melnyka and Dokterivska streets by 8 a.m., they assumed the Nazis were shipping them to a ghetto. Some even arrived early for a good seat on the train. There were no trains. What met the Jews that morning was death in a ravine called Babi Yar.
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ROME, JAN. 18, 2005 ( Zenit.org ).- As a priest, Karol Wojtyla refused to baptize a Jewish child who had been entrusted to a Catholic family in Nazi-occupied Poland, out of respect for the youngster's religious ...
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The venturesome New York art gallery Broadway 1602 offers an utterly fascinating mix of photographs by a little-known Polish artist.
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Tsezar Kats thought it was a Soviet parade as he marched with Jews out to Ukraine's Babi Yar ravine in 1941, but the absence of balloons and red Soviet flags puzzled the 4-year-old.     Then he saw the piles of ...Comment
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Now the town houses a menorah workshop, and the chanukiahs have become popular with both Poles and tourists.
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A Jewish Holocaust survivor made a plea for tolerance Tuesday at a conference in the world's most populous Muslim nation that also brought together religious leaders and victims of attacks by Islamic extremists.
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A Roman Catholic radio station that has been accused of anti-Semitism and criticized by the Vatican was praised Thursday by the prime minister as a source of 'comfort and hope' for Poles.Comment
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue, which survived the horrors of the Nazi holocaust and the oppression of communist rule, reopened on Friday as a symbol of the rebirth of the Jewish community.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary ...
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Pope Benedict is due to visit Austria, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazis.
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October 7 (RIA Novosti s Leonid Sviridov) - On Thursday, October 7, RIA Novosti opens a photo exhibition in Gdansk, Poland, devoted to the 60th anniversary of victory over Nazism and titled People Who Defeated ...
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Jewish leaders are to join Polish dignitaries for the start of work on a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of   one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,   reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off   European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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A ceremony of commemoration to mark Holocaust Memorial Day took place in City Hall in Dublin this evening.