The new film “Irena’s Vow” brings to life the true story of Irene Gut Opdyke, a young Polish Catholic woman who risked everything to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. The two-hour film, based on a Broadway play, hits
The head of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem has described as "heartbreaking" an incident of being spat at by Jewish extremists in the Old City, describing the suspects as "hooligans of religion."
According to police, two Jewish Israelis were detained Feb. 3, the
On a Jewish holiday and the sabbath, Oct. 16, 1943, German forces rounded-up more than 1,250 men, women and children in Rome for deportation to extermination camps in Poland.
Those who were Jewish -- 1,022 of them -- were detained for two days
Until Polish film director Mariusz Pilis told him the story of the Ulma family in 2022, the mayor of the German city of Esens had no idea that the murderer of the newly beatified Poles who sheltered Jews lived unbothered in his
Former Soviet political prisoners have pointed to "a common enemy," one intent on undermining the cause of Ukrainian-Jewish understanding they worked to achieve, in a recent controversy over a World War II memorial in a Ukrainian Catholic cemetery near Philadelphia.
"For us, this
Eight hundred unique photographs of the Ulma family, beatified on September 10, remain precious memorabilia in family and state archives. They tell a story of the joys and hardships of their everyday life. But they also tell the story of those they
The documentation regarding 4,300 people -- including 3,600 of whom are named -- given refuge by women's and men's religious congregations was found in the archives of the Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, also known as the Biblicum. The registry was
When Józef and Wiktoria Ulma are beatified with their children Sept. 10, eight decades after they were shot by Nazis for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse near the village of Markowa in southeastern Poland, it will be a graphic reminder of the
The vice president of the Warsaw-based Institute of National Remembrance, Mateusz Szpytma learned through a family photo album of the Ulmas and the tragic deaths of the family and the Jews they hid in 1944 during World War II. Szpytma's grandmother, Maria,
An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole and a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us, writes David Mills, not despite her bigotry but