The case concerns legal recognition of a family, including minor children, who sheltered Jews persecuted under Nazi antisemitic policies during the Holocaust. The court emphasized that hiding Jews exposed the entire household to severe punishment, including death, and held that minors could be recognized as participants in protecting Jews from antisemitic persecution.

Art. 2(31), Art. 21, Art. 22(1) Act of 24 January 1991 on Combatants and Certain Persons Who Were Victims of Wartime and Post-War Repression

Art. 145 § 1(1)(a) Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

Access to information concerning Jewish cemeteries and sites of Holocaust-related martyrdom. The applicant sought information from a Jewish religious community on the location and funding of Jewish cemeteries, invoking their historical link to antisemitic persecution and public oversight. The court dismissed the complaint, holding that despite their cultural and historical significance, religious communities maintaining Jewish cemeteries do not perform public tasks and are not subject to public-information duties absent proven use of public funds.

Art. 1(1), Art. 4(1)(5), Art. 6(1)(5)(d), Art. 13(1) Act of 6 September 2001 on Access to Public Information

Art. 61(1) and (2), Art. 25(3) Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Art. 52(1) and (2), Art. 119(4), Art. 151 Law of 30 August 2002 on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 9(1), Art. 9(2)(2), Art. 11(1) Act of 17 May 1989 on Guarantees of Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Art. 2(2) Act of 31 January 1959 on Cemeteries and Burial of the Deceased

Procedural assistance in administrative proceedings sought by a Holocaust survivor in a case concerning denial of combattant status. The applicant, identifying as a Holocaust victim, applied for full legal aid in proceedings challenging the refusal to recognise her combattant rights. The administrative court held that references to historical antisemitic persecution do not dispense with the statutory requirement to demonstrate financial inability to bear litigation costs and dismissed the application on procedural grounds, without examining the merits of the Holocaust-related claims.

Art. 245 § 2, Art. 246 § 1 pkt 1, Art. 199 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns an applicant who repeatedly used antisemitic and offensive language in submissions to the administrative court, including references to an alleged “Jewish occupation.” While condemning these remarks as incompatible with the dignity of judicial proceedings, the court nevertheless granted legal aid, holding that the applicant’s antisemitic statements did not justify denying his right of access to a court.

Articles 243, 244 §3, 245 §3, 246 §1, 252 §1, and 260 of the Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Article 45(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Judicial review of a physician’s temporary suspension based on conduct involving antisemitic and Holocaust-related rhetoric. The case concerned the interim suspension of a doctor following repeated offensive communications invoking antisemitic tropes, Holocaust imagery, and racial hierarchies, combined with conduct raising concerns for patient safety. The court held that this pattern justified a reasonable suspicion of impaired fitness to practise and upheld the preventive suspension as a proportionate measure to protect public health.

Art. 12 § 1, § 3, § 4, Art. 57 § 2 Act of 5 December 1996 on the Professions of Physician and Dentist

Art. 25 point 4, Art. 40 § 4 Act of 2 December 2009 on Medical Chambers

Art. 7, Art. 10 § 2, Art. 77 § 1, Art. 80, Art. 107 § 1 point 6 and § 3, Art. 108 § 1, Art. 138 § 1 point 1 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 151 Act of 30 August 2002 – Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 15zzs⁴ Act of 2 March 2020 on Special Measures Related to the Prevention, Counteracting and Combating of COVID-19

The case concerns refusal to approve a construction project on land identified as a former Jewish cemetery and Holocaust related site; the administrative court upheld the decision, holding that conservation authorities could lawfully refuse consent to protect the historical and cultural value of the site, emphasising that its status as part of Jewish heritage and a place of memory justified protection regardless of the investor’s claims, and that such proceedings cannot be used to challenge the inclusion of the land in the heritage register.

Art. 39(3) Building Law

Art. 89, Art. 93 Act on the Protection of Monuments

Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns refusal of refugee status to an applicant who invoked fear of persecution based partly on her Jewish identity; the court held that while antisemitism exists as a social phenomenon, isolated incidents and general claims are insufficient to establish a well founded fear of persecution without concrete individual risk, and although it annulled the decision due to incomplete assessment of other circumstances, it confirmed that antisemitism must reach a serious and personalised level to justify protection.

Art. 1A(2) Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Art. 7, Art. 77 §1, Art. 107 §3 Code of Administrative Procedure

The case concerns a planned construction project on land allegedly overlapping with a former Jewish cemetery, where authorities refused approval on the basis of protecting Jewish heritage and memory; the court acknowledged the importance of safeguarding sites connected to Jewish communities, especially in light of their historical destruction, but held that such protection must be grounded in clear and verifiable evidence, and annulled the decisions because the authorities failed to prove that the specific plot actually constituted a protected cemetery area despite invoking its Jewish historical significance.

Art. 7, Art. 77 §1, Art. 80, Art. 107 §3 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 60(1), Art. 53(4)(2) Act on Spatial Planning and Development

Entry in the register of monuments (Wpis do rejestru zabytków) - Confirmation of the decision to include a building with historical and cultural links to the Jewish community in the register of monuments

Art. 9 ust. 1 Ochrona zabytków i opieka nad zabytkami

The case concerns a supervisory decision annulling the appointment of a director of a municipal cultural institution, challenged by the City of Warsaw; the administrative court annulled the supervisory act, holding that public authorities cannot interfere with cultural institutions based on ideological disagreement with artistic programmes, including those addressing minority issues or discrimination, and emphasised that such interference threatens pluralism and the ability to address topics like antisemitism, while supervisory review must be limited strictly to legality and not value based judgments.

Art. 85, Art. 91 Polish Act on Municipal Self-Government

Art. 16 Act on Organising and Conducting Cultural Activity

Art. 2, Art. 7, Art. 32, Art. 60, Art. 73, Art. 171 Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Art. 8 European Charter of Local Self-Government

The case concerns a property restitution claim invoking the Terezin Declaration, which addresses property lost by Holocaust victims. The court held that the Declaration could not itself provide a legal basis for restitution under Polish law, highlighting legal limitations in recovering property connected to Holocaust era dispossession.

Art. 1, Art. 7, Art. 8 Decree of 26 October 1945 on the Ownership and Use of Land in the Area of the Capital City of Warsaw

Art. 156 § 1(2), Art. 156 § 2 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 91(2) Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Art. 145 § 1(1)(a), Art. 151 Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

The case concerns allegations of antisemitic bias in the admission process for doctoral studies, arising from the applicant’s proposed research on Polish–Israeli and Polish–Jewish relations. The court found no objective evidence that the recruitment committee had acted with discriminatory or antisemitic bias and upheld the refusal of admission based on the applicant’s failure to obtain the required interview score.

Article 196(2)–(4) and Article 207(1) of the Higher Education Law

Articles 7, 11, 77(1), 80, 107(1) and (3), and 138(1)(1) Code of Administrative Procedure

Article 151 Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

Resolution No. 308 of the Senate of the University of Warsaw of 18 April 2018 on the Conditions and Procedure for Admission to Doctoral Programmes

The case concerns a refusal to restore a missed procedural deadline in proceedings before the Institute of National Remembrance, where the applicant argued that the delay was due to postal error and personal circumstances including wartime experiences and activities related to combating antisemitism; the administrative court dismissed the complaint, holding that the delay resulted from incorrectly addressed correspondence attributable to the applicant and that such personal history was not relevant to assessing fault in procedural compliance.

Art. 58 § 1, 2, Art. 127 § 3 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 3 § 1, Art. 134 § 1, Art. 145, Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Administrative proceedings concerning a request for interpretation of a judgment, in which allegations of antisemitism and Nazi-era persecution were raised. The applicant argued that a prior judgment failed to eliminate a historical decision allegedly inciting antisemitic hatred and that the court thereby perpetuated antisemitic persecution. The Administrative Court rejected the request, holding that the judgment was clear and that interpretative proceedings cannot be used to reopen the merits of a case, revisit historical grievances, or pursue polemics concerning antisemitism outside the scope of the adjudicated administrative matter.

Art. 158 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 7 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 28 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 138 § 2 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 3 point 20 Construction Law

The case concerns an attempt to exclude persons of Jewish nationality from participating in administrative proceedings. The court rejected the request, holding that public officials cannot be excluded from proceedings on the basis of their nationality.

Art. 1, Art. 3(1)(1), Art. 4(1)(1), Art. 12(1)(7), Art. 13d(1) Act on Agricultural Tax

Art. 1(1)–(2), Art. 2(1)(1), Art. 3 Act on Forest Tax

Art. 130, Art. 132, Art. 194 § 1 Tax Ordinance

Art. 21 Geodetic and Cartographic Law

Art. 3 Act on the Constitutional Tribunal

Art. 134, Art. 145 § 1(1), Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case includes antisemitic language used by the applicant in her pleadings. The court deliberately omitted reproducing the offensive, obscene, and antisemitic statements, finding them irrelevant to the legal issues, and resolved the case solely on the basis of the applicable property tax provisions.

Article 3(1)(4)(a), Article 1a, and Articles 2–6 of the Act of 12 January 1991 on Local Taxes and Charges

Article 336 Civil Code

Article 151 Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

Article 21 of the Geodetic and Cartographic Law

Article 43 of the Real Estate Management Act

the provisions of the Tax Ordinance concerning tax proceedings and the invalidity of decisions, in particular Articles 187(3), 210(4), and 247(1)

The case concerns a claimant who sought recognition for detention allegedly linked to his opposition to antisemitic propaganda and his efforts to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, including removing antisemitic graffiti and defending Jews. The court acknowledged these anti-antisemitic activities but held that they did not meet the statutory definition of activity directly connected with the struggle for Poland’s independence.

Article 4(1)(4) and Article 8(2)(2) of the Act on Combatants and Certain Persons Who Were Victims of Wartime and Post-War Repression

Art. 151 Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

Disciplinary sanction for antisemitic hate speech in written submissions to an administrative court. The case concerned the imposition of a fine on a litigant who repeatedly used vulgar and explicitly antisemitic language in court pleadings directed at judges and public authorities. The court held that such hate-based abuse undermines the dignity and authority of judicial proceedings, is not protected by freedom of expression, and may be sanctioned even when expressed in written submissions.

Art. 49 § 1 Law on the Organisation of Common Courts

Art. 29 Law on the Organisation of Administrative Courts

Administrative proceedings on confirmation of Polish citizenship in the context of post-war Jewish emigration to Israel. A Holocaust survivor who emigrated from Poland as a child sought confirmation that she had retained Polish citizenship. The administrative authorities and the court held that she had lost Polish citizenship by acquiring Israeli citizenship shortly after the establishment of Israel, applying the 1920 Citizenship Act.

Art. 11 pkt 1, Art. 13 Act of 20 January 1920 on Citizenship of the Polish State

Act of 15 February 1962 on Polish Citizenship

Israeli Law of Return of 5 July 1950 Israeli Citizenship Law of 1 April 1952

Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns refusal to reopen proceedings on recognition of wartime persecution of a person as a child, where the applicant argued that the experience of Jewish children hiding during the Holocaust constituted persecution aimed at extermination under antisemitic policies; the court upheld the refusal, holding that new legal interpretations about the situation of Jewish children do not qualify as new evidence, and emphasized that despite acknowledging the historical reality of antisemitic persecution, procedural rules prevent reopening the case without new factual material.

Art. 145 § 1 points 5, 7 and 8, Art. 151 § 1 point 1, Art. 138 § 1 point 1 Code of Administrative Procedure

Monument protection (Ochrona zabytków) - The ruling overturned the decision to register a former synagogue building as a monument because it can no longer be considered a monument following the demolition of some of its characteristic elements.

Art. 135, Art. 145 § 1 pkt 1, Art. 145 § 1 pkt 1 lit. c, Art. 200 Prawo o postępowaniu przed sądami administracyjnymi; Art. 7, Art. 17 pkt 2, Art. 68, Art. 77, Art. 77 § 1, Art. 80, Art. 85, Art. 107 § 1, Art. 107 § 3, Art. 127 § 2, Art. 138 § 1 pkt 1 Kodeks postępowania administracyjnego; Art. 67 Prawo budowlane; Art. 67 Prawo o ustroju sądów administracyjnych; Art. 3 pkt 2, Art. 6 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. c, Art. 7 pkt 1, Art. 9 ust. 1, Art. 89 pkt 1, Art. 93 ust. 1 Ochrona zabytków i opieka nad zabytkami

The case concerns a request for public information relating to alleged antisemitic conduct by employees of a Regional Heritage Protection Office. The court held that the authority had to properly address the applicant’s claim that disclosure served the public interest because of the allegations of antisemitism, rather than dismissing that argument without adequate reasoning.

Article 61(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Article 2(1), Article 3(1)(1), and Article 16(1) Act on Access to Public Information

Articles 80, 104(1)–(2), and 107(3) Code of Administrative Procedure

Articles 145(1)(1)(c) and 200 Law on Proceedings Before Administrative Courts

The case concerns a tax procedure dispute in which the applicant introduced explicitly antisemitic demands, including a request to exclude Jews from adjudicating his case; the administrative court treated these statements as legally irrelevant and upheld the rejection of his procedural complaint, confirming that no appeal lies against the initiation of tax proceedings, and implicitly affirming that discriminatory demands based on ethnicity or religion have no place in legal proceedings and cannot affect judicial decision making.

Art. 165, 228, 236–237 Polish Tax Ordinance

Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns whether certain land should be recognised as part of a former Jewish cemetery and protected as cultural heritage; the court upheld the refusal, finding no sufficient evidence that the land functioned as a cemetery or contained confirmed Jewish burial sites, holding that unproven claims of wartime burials were insufficient, and emphasising that protection of Jewish heritage requires clear, verified historical or material evidence.

Art. 3, Art. 6, Art. 7, Art. 9, Art. 89, Art. 93 Act on the Protection of Monuments

Art. 7, Art. 77 § 1, Art. 80, Art. 127 § 2, Art. 138 § 1 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 134 § 1, Art. 145 § 1, Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns permission for archaeological research linked to a municipal investment near a former Jewish cemetery; the administrative court dismissed the complaint, holding that the permit was lawfully issued with proper safeguards and supervision, that the works concerned a plot not included in the officially protected Jewish cemetery, and therefore did not require consultation with Jewish religious authorities, while also confirming that the authorities conducted the proceedings correctly and that the decision complied with both procedural and substantive law.

Art. 36(1)(5), Art. 89(1), Art. 93(1) Act on the Protection of Monuments and the Care of Monuments

Art. 7, Art. 8, Art. 77(1), Art. 80, Art. 138 § 1(1) Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 145 § 1, Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Discrimination (Dyskryminacja) – The plaintiff accused a Jewish mayor of discrimination and persecution due to his Polish origin

Art. 3 § 1 pkt 8, Art. 3 § 2 pkt 1, Art. 3 § 2 pkt 4, Art. 58 § 1 pkt 1, Art. 149 Prawo o postępowaniu przed sądami administracyjnymi

Judicial review of alleged administrative inactivity concerning Holocaust-era measures invoking antisemitism. The applicant complained that the Minister had failed to invalidate alleged Nazi-era decisions promoting racial hatred and ordering wartime expropriation of land used for Jewish camps. The administrative court held that the claims did not constitute an administrative matter subject to judicial review and found the complaint inadmissible.

Art. 3 § 1–2, Art. 58 § 1 point 6 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 156 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 13 Constitution of the Republic of Poland

Administrative proceedings concerning an order requiring a foreign national to return to his country of origin, in which allegations of antisemitic persecution were raised. The applicant, a foreign national of Jewish faith, claimed that removal would expose him to antisemitic persecution and inhuman or degrading treatment. The authorities and the court rejected these assertions as unsubstantiated, holding that allegations of antisemitism must be supported by credible and individualised evidence and upholding the return decision.

Art. 302(1)(16a), Art. 299(6)(2), Art. 348, Art. 351 Act on Foreigners

Art. 3, Art. 8 European Convention on Human Rights

Art. 151 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

The case concerns refusal of legal aid in administrative proceedings, where the claimant also expressed antisemitic statements during the case; the court upheld the refusal, holding that the applicant failed to demonstrate financial inability and did not provide required information, emphasising that legal aid depends solely on objective criteria, while the antisemitic remarks, though noted, had no legal relevance to the assessment.

Art. 245, Art. 246 §1, Art. 255,

Art. 260 Polish Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 84 Constitution of the Republic of Poland

The case concerns refusal to initiate proceedings on restitution of property allegedly affected by post war agrarian reform, where the applicant invoked Holocaust related arguments including the so called Act 447. The court rejected this, holding that such references have no legal relevance in Polish law, and emphasised that claims connected to Jewish property losses must be based on proven legal succession and domestic legal grounds, not on broader historical or political narratives, thereby preventing the misuse of Holocaust related discourse in property disputes.

Art. 61a § 1, Art. 28, Art. 7, Art. 77 § 1, Art. 80, Art. 107 § 3 Code of Administrative Procedure

Art. 151, Art. 134 § 1, Art. 119 point 3, Art. 120 Law on Proceedings before Administrative Courts

Art. 1025 § 2, Art. 1027 Civil Code

Art. 2 Decree of 6 September 1944 on Agrarian Reform