Poland's 'LGBT-free zones' could lead to hate crimes and violence, rights group warns
Reported hate crimes against LGBT people more than doubled to 150 in 2019.
Reuters
Feb 14, 2021
"From Exile to Exile"
By Nathaniel Hill Photo: Portraits of Abdullah Gamidov, his wife Khalida, and her father Zia Chumidze lie on the checkerboard in the...
Genocide Watch
Jan 13, 2021
Roma Holocaust victims commemorated
Deportation from Lety to Auschwitz Lety, South Bohemia, May 13 (CTK) - The commemorative act for the Roma Holocaust victims was on Sunday...
Prague Daily Monitor
May 14, 2018
Holocaust survivor warns Polish leaders over Nazi groups
The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz,center, addresses a rally he organized in protest against a recent gathering by far-right groups in...
Associated Press 1
Apr 21, 2018
Lithuania's Museum of Holocaust Denial
This past winter here in Vilnius, the charming capital of Lithuania, was much like any other. During long solid weeks of subzero...
Dovid Katz | Tablet
Apr 11, 2018
Scrubbing Poland’s Complicated Past
This month, Poland marks fifty years since the “March events” of 1968, when mass protests erupted in response to the stagnant Communist...
The New York Review of Books
Mar 25, 2018
Poland’s Misunderstood Holocaust Law
World War II altered not only the fate of nations but also that of millions of families in Europe. From the viewpoint of Poland, it was...
Mateusz Morawiecki
Mar 19, 2018
Poland’s new ‘Holocaust law’ comes up against massacre of Jews in 1941
JEDWABNE, Poland — The Jews who survived the axes were burned alive in a barn on the outskirts of town. The Germans had just recaptured...
James McAuley
Feb 22, 2018
In solidarity with Civil Society in Hungary
On 13 February 2018, the Hungarian government tabled to Parliament a proposed legislative pack of three laws, commonly referred to as...
Reporters without Borders 1
Feb 21, 2018
In laws, rhetoric and acts of violence, Europe is rewriting dark chapters of its past
In Poland, the president signs a law criminalizing anyone who dares suggest that the country’s citizens helped perpetrate crimes of the...
Griff Witte
Feb 19, 2018
Rewriting History in Eastern Europe
Last week, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial law criminalizing statements that attribute responsibility for the...
Foreign Affairs
Feb 14, 2018
Poland to outlaw references to 'Polish death camps' in Holocaust bill
By Judith Vonberg Poland's senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it illegal to accuse the nation of complicity in crimes...
CNN 1
Feb 2, 2018
