Poland
Mimicking the totalitarian habit of rewriting the past.
It wasn’t easy for an entire Jewish family to escape Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Ruth Wisse’s did.
And it brings anti-Semitism with it.
Collaboration in the slaughter of the Jews on the one hand, “Jewish crimes” against Lithuanians on the other.
Heroic acts of rescue alongside terrible crimes.
What underlies Poland’s new Holocaust legislation.
Jews and Poles should try to put the past behind them.
Last month I received two letters that brought back memories of a love story with the Holocaust as background but, for once, not with a tragic ending.
“Defending the good name of the Polish nation.”
Demon.
Elsewhere than Zion, said the greatest Hebrew poet of the 19th century—until he changed his mind, paving the way for others.
Israel, Poland, and Putin.
The attempt to revoke Jan Gross’s Order of Merit.
Eyewitness reportage from Poland helps explain the Holocaust better than a shelf of well-researched histories.