Poland
The walk to Bubba's House in Lublin, Poland. Photos: Supplied
July 24, 2025, 12:09 pm
Two siblings, one Bubba and a ‘real pane’
Past and present collide for Tony Simmons while on a whirlwind trip to Lublin, Poland, to visit his grandmother's house.
By Tony Simmons
January 27, 2025, 1:55 pm
Walking in Auschwitz
Sawicki speaks of the final weeks of Auschwitz II-Birkenau in January 1945 – the death march westwards towards Germany.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Eli Schlanger and his son Nossen place the Torah, which has a significant history, in the ark at Chabad of Bondi.
January 15, 2025, 2:55 pm
An incredible story spanning generations
From Poland to Sydney, a bar mitzvah amidst rising antisemitism
By AJN STAFF
POLIN Museum 10th Anniversary.
December 10, 2024, 2:36 pm
Poland’s Jewish struggle
But beyond the gates of the death camps stands a millennium of Jewish life, as showcased at the impressive POLIN Museum in Warsaw, which opened in 2014.
By Peter Kohn
dinkus image
October 11, 2023, 6:54 am
The land of Jewish worker bees
Without the Jewish worker bees, Israel would never have been established as a modern state. The Jewish worker bees together made a massive and critical difference.
By Roger mendelson
June 20, 2023, 6:42 am
The experience of migration
"We began to explore the image of the boastful rooster as a hero, which in turn led us into questions of journeying, migration and the status of claims to the ownership of animals, objects and ideas."
By Hannah Schauder
A building damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv. Photo: AP Photo/Alex Babenko
June 20, 2023, 6:39 am
Israeli warning system to be deployed by September
The system has been credited with saving hundreds of lives in Israel over the years during flare-ups of violence with terror groups in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon
By LAZAR BERMAN & CANAAN LIDOR
The ice cream stand outside Auschwitz. Photo: Dagmar Kopijasz
May 23, 2023, 6:33 am
Auschwitz museum slams ice cream stand
"The trailer, however, stands outside the boundary of the protection zone of the memorial designated by law, so unfortunately we have no influence over it."
By CANAAN LIDOR
Israeli President Isaac Herzog prepares to lay a wreath at Yad Vashem. Photo: Yad Vashem
April 20, 2023, 9:32 am
Yom Hashoah marked in Israel, Poland, US
'This year is no ordinary year. And this memorial day is like no other'
Historian Eliyana Adler.Photo: YouTube screenshot
December 1, 2021, 9:00 am
Jewish historian rejects prestigious Polish award
By Times of Israel
The book-burning in Kalisz.Photo: Screenshot, Twitter
November 19, 2021, 12:00 pm
Jewish book-burning slammed
By Times of Israel and JTA
Ann Drillich working on her campaign in 2016. Photo: Peter Haskin
December 24, 2020, 12:00 am
Australian declared rightful owner of family land
Poland’s Supreme Court rules in favour of Australian Ann Drillich, who claimed neighbour who saved her mother from Nazis later betrayed family and gave away their property.
By Peter Kohn
Yvonne Engelman, pictured with her son Michael, holds a candle during a havdalah service in Krakow last week.
January 30, 2020, 7:00 am
‘I survived, so I am the victor’
Sydney Shoah survivor Yvonne Engelman returned to the very site where she lost her family, and almost her own life, as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
By Evan Zlatkis
From the WebJanuary 1, 2020, 11:22 am
Polish children simulate being gassed to death at Auschwitz-themed dance recital
Event marks renaming of a school to honor Polish children deported by Nazis, some of whom were forcibly adopted by German families if found to be sufficiently Aryan.
Artwork: Adriana Alvarez
March 8, 2019, 1:56 pm
Women who wow
Today is International Women's Day. Rebecca Davis and Sophie Deutsch celebrate a few remarkable women of the community. 
By Rebecca Davis
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