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Remembering the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Tablet traveled to the Polish capital in 2013 for that year’s commemorations

By Stephanie Butnick · April 21, 2015
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Do Polish Kids Hate Jews?

A student survey about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reflects the country’s new nuanced approach to the past

By Magdalena H. Gross · May 7, 2013
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Bartoszewski at the U.S. Holocaust Museum

Honoring a hero and celebrating the museum’s 20th anniversary

By Adam Chandler · April 26, 2013
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Reconsidering Poland

A night with the Israeli Philharmonic in Warsaw

By Morton Landowne · April 23, 2013
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Re-Reading My March of the Living Journal

Looking at Poland fifteen years after my first visit

By Adam Chandler · April 19, 2013
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The Invisible City

What’s the best way to make history come alive? One guide’s answer: stories.

By Matthew Fishbane · April 19, 2013
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Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Poland gives tribute on the 70th anniversary

By Adam Chandler · April 19, 2013
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What Lay Here Before

Warsaw’s newest museum rests on the site of the former Jewish ghetto

By Stephanie Butnick · April 19, 2013
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Q&A: Władysław Bartoszewski

Why you should learn to spell the name of the mastermind of Poland’s relations with Germany and the Jews

By David Samuels · April 19, 2013
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Inside the Ringelblum Archive

A guided tour of Polish Jewry’s greatest treasure, once buried in the rubble of Warsaw

By Vox Tablet · April 19, 2013
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Ghosts of My Grandfather’s Village

The Holocaust destroyed Plock’s Jewish community. But the exodus started decades earlier, after World War I.

By Wayne Hoffman · April 19, 2013
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The Warsaw Ghetto’s Last Burial

A reburial for a Jewish woman who died in 1943 while hiding as a Catholic

By Stephanie Butnick · April 18, 2013
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Unveiling a Plaque at the Hotel Polski

Warsaw marks a historic venue

By Adam Chandler · April 18, 2013
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Ride of Their Lives

New Jewish museum reaches out to Polish cyclists

By Matthew Fishbane · April 18, 2013
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The Best Pierogi in Warsaw

An adventure in dumpling consumption

By Stephanie Butnick · April 18, 2013
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Did Poland Invent the PC?

A surprising legacy of Jewish mathematicians and Polish resistance fighters

By Liel Leibovitz · April 18, 2013
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Poland’s History Detective

Zygmunt Miłoszewski plumbs the country’s painful past in his best-selling thrillers

By Liel Leibovitz · April 18, 2013
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My Mother’s Life

How Chava Rosenfarb survived the Lodz ghetto to write a masterpiece about the experience

By Goldie Morgentaler · April 18, 2013
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Our Lost Warsaw Ghetto Diary

My relative wrote one of the Shoah’s most revealing documents. Why doesn’t anyone know of it?

By Sarah Wildman · April 18, 2013
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Stumbling on History

Finding answers on a first walk through Warsaw

By Wayne Hoffman · April 17, 2013
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My Other Trip to Poland

I was here 15 years ago. I did not want to come back.

By Adam Chandler · April 17, 2013
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The View from the World’s Last Fotoplastikon

Now showing: images of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto

By Liel Leibovitz · April 17, 2013
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Who Owns Jan Karski?

The politics of memory hit Poland’s unsung hero

By Liel Leibovitz · April 17, 2013
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Tablet, Warsaw Edition

The week of the 70th anniversary of the ghetto uprising, Tablet magazine reported from Poland

By Alana Newhouse · April 17, 2013
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The Book Thief: How Stolen Nazi Documents Made Their Way to American Jewish Archives

Did Zosa Szajkowski save precious documents from the Nazis, or did he steal the cultural patrimony of French Jews?

By Lisa Leff · April 17, 2013
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Poland’s Undead Gravestones

Photographer Łukasz Baksik hunts repurposed matzevot, burial markers turned cornerstones and cobbles

By S. Lawrence* · April 17, 2013
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In the Polish Aftermath

In a public debate over a controversial new Holocaust film, Poland faces up to a complicated past

By Denise Grollmus · April 17, 2013
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Wu-Tang’s Kiddush

My family Kiddush became the haunting opening for Schindler’s List, and was sampled by the hip-hop collective

By Aaron R. Katz · April 15, 2013
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The Curator of Joy and Ashes

How ethnographer Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett became the keeper of Poland’s Jewish heritage

By Allison Hoffman · April 10, 2013
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A Polish Village’s Secret

A farming town hid a Jewish-born teacher during the Holocaust. I went to dig up what it had buried.

By Suzanne Rozdeba · August 21, 2012
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