Articles by Agnieszka Markiewicz

The Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) survey leaves no illusions – antisemitism in today's Europe is a growing problem.

This is one of the most serious physical attacks on the Jewish community since Poland threw off communism in 1989, and it recalls—for those familiar with the history of modern Poland—the aggressive antisemitism of the 1930s. For members of today’s Jewish community, which is experiencing a post-Holocaust revival in Poland, this was a traumatic event.

Today, April 19, 2018, we mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A year ago, over 500 guests from Poland, the U.S., and other countries met at the Polin Museum to celebrate the opening of the new Warsaw-based American Jewish Committee office - AJC Central Europe.

We are experiencing the most serious crisis in Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations since the collapse of Communism in Poland in 1989. While the Polish Jewish community is at the center of this maelstrom, its voice is not considered enough in the discourse.

Poland, the country where I was born and where I live and work today, has suddenly found itself at the center of a major internal and international crisis that is deeply rooted in historical tragedy, competing narratives and questions of identity.