Poland

Alleged Nazi treasure including the Amber Room may be buried in Poland's Kashubia

After ten years of private investigation, treasure hunters, led by Jan Delingowski, have received permission to begin excavations.

Kashubia, Poland.
Archaeologists uncover medieval knight's remains beneath former ice cream parlour.

Archaeologists uncover medieval knight's remains beneath former ice cream parlour

Maciej Hunia met with President Isaac Herzog.

After long hiatus, there is finally a Polish ambassador in Israel

 ISRAEL GUARD Omer Mayer had 24 points and 11 assists to pace the blue-and-white to a 91-75 victory over Poland at Under-20 EuroBasket in Crete on Monday.

Israel rolls past Poles, stays perfect at U20 EuroBasket


Vandals deface Holocaust memorial in Polish Jewish cemetery with anti-Israel, Nazi graffiti

This incident occurred just days after far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun referred to the Auschwitz gas chambers as “fake” and accused the Auschwitz Museum of promoting “pseudo-history.”

 The Holocaust memorial that was defaced over Friday night with a swastika and anti-Israel graffiti In Dulka Poland on July 11, 2025.

Right-wing Polish legislator says gas chambers fake, Auschwitz pushes 'psuedo history'

MEP Grzegorz Braun previously put out the candles of Poland's menorah with a flamethrower during a national commemoration of Hannukah.

 Far-right European Parliament member from Poland, Grzegorz Braun, looks on during the first plenary session of the newly elected parliament in Strasbourg, France, July 16, 2024.

In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis

In 1941, local residents of Jedwabne killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of them in a barn where they were burned alive.

 A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbors, July 10, 2025. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

Discovery reinforces advanced cognitive abilities of early homo sapiens in Europe.

 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

Discovery reinforces advanced cognitive abilities of early homo sapiens in Europe.

 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Poland detains 19-year old man suspected of planning terrorist attack, interior ministry spokesman

The suspects are believed to have been inspired by mass-killers, including Anders Breivik.

Police officers look on outside a restaurant ahead of a football match,  May 28, 2025.

Israel, don't let democracy die: Beware the populist tide in Europe - opinion

After a populist with ties to organized crime won the Polish elections, does Israel face a similar threat?

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

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.

Polish nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency in setback for pro-EU government

In a victory for European conservatives inspired by US President Donald Trump, Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, election commission data showed.

 Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, reacts to the exit polls of the second round of the presidential election, in Warsaw, Poland, June 1, 2025.

The comeback of the conservative-sovereigntist Right in Poland - analysis

The 43-year-old historian, director of the Polish National Remembrance Institute (IPN), won the presidential race, despite polls foreseeing his defeat.

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.

Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot

Voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian rewriting Holocaust history.

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.