Warsaw

Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, seven years after being pushed out by nationalist politics

Dariusz Stola steered the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw from its founding in 2014 to become a breakthrough in Poland’s recognition of its extinguished Jewish past. 

Dariusz Stola receives the appointment as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews' director from Marta Cienkowska, the Polish minister of culture and national heritage, in February 2026.
Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.

Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive

The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy

Tombstones at the Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland.

Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group


New York, Berlin, London ramp up Hanukkah security after Bondi Beach shootings

Berlin police said they were ramping up measures around the German capital's Brandenburg Gate, where a large electric menorah is being lit to mark the first night of Hanukkah.

The Israeli flag waves as lights are lit on the Hanukkah candelabrum during a ceremony of the Jewish Hanukkah festival of lights at Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany December 14, 2025.

Remains of Jewish chocolate factory destroyed in WWII found in Warsaw

Meir Bulka, a researcher of Jewish heritage in Poland, called the discovery “a time capsule".

Remains of Jewish chocolate factory destroyed in WWII found in Warsaw.

Hidden basement cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of lost yeshiva of the sages of Lublin books in Warsaw

The researchers removed about 40 to 50 sacks—roughly 1.5 tons—from a locked basement near the Nożyk Synagogue.

Hidden basement cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of lost yeshiva of the sages of Lublin books in Warsaw.

Israeli singer D’or splashed with red paint at Warsaw performance

Anti-Israel group Bas Collective said that two people were arrested and that it was attempting to hold solidarity rallies for the activists.

Israeli singer David D'Or sing during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2024.

11-year-old boy uncovers 50,000-year-old skull on river walk

What Marcel thought was just a bone turned out to be a priceless Pleistocene relic - and scientists are thrilled.

Marcel and his parents with the skull fragment.

On the hunt for Frédéric Chopin's footprints in Warsaw

Walking the cobblestone streets of the Old Town, meticulously rebuilt from wartime ashes, I found it postcard-perfect.

A PAINTING in the district anchored by the Chopin University of Music

Warsaw is silent, but Poland rises up in anti-establishment statement - anaylsis

Nawrocki’s narrow win, securing just over 50.8% of the vote, marked a stunning reversal of the liberal optimism that swept Prime Minister Donald Tusk into power barely 18 months earlier.

 Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, speaks next to his wife Marta Nawrocka, his sons Antoni and Daniel and daughter Katarzyna, as he reacts to the exit polls of the second round of the presidential election, in Poland, June 2025.

Woman beheaded during axe attack at Warsaw University, Polish media reports

Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that a woman's severed head and an axe had been found at the university.

Polish police secure an area at the Warsaw University campus after an attack with an axe, in Warsaw, Poland, May 7, 2025

UK politician compares Hamas to Warsaw Ghetto freedom fighters

Liberal Democrat councillor John Boyd sparks controversy by comparing Hamas to Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, while the party denounced his comments.

SS SOLDIERS patrol Nowolipie Street in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

In the last few years, a new form of life has come to the cemetery. Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing, and digging with shovels.

 Gravestones under restoration at Warsaw's largest Jewish cemetery, September 2024.