The remains of a teenage girl were found with a padlock fastened to her toe and a sickle placed across her neck.
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Polish far-right leader charged with Holocaust denial for calling Auschwitz gas chambers “fake”
Denying Nazi crimes is a criminal offence in Poland that carries a prison sentence of up to three years.
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Ukraine to establish new national pantheon as Poland warns against honouring massacre figures
President Zelensky reiterated that “only Ukrainians will decide who is a hero to us”.
Warsaw Uprising veteran and activist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska dies aged 99
In her later years, Traczyk-Stawska became a vocal advocate for the rights of women and disabled people.
Negative views of Polish-Ukrainian relations reach highest level on record in Poland
Meanwhile, the proportion who believe that reconciliation is possible has fallen to the lowest level on record.
Remains of Poles massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in WWII exhumed in Ukraine
Around half of the remains belonged to children, and most show signs of brutal deaths, including skulls pierced with farming tools.
Candidate to lead Polish state history institute rejected in rare clash between houses of parliament
The Institute of National Remembrance has been leaderless since its previous head, Karol Nawrocki, become president.
Unexploded WWII ordnance discovered under busy Warsaw street
The discovery led to part of the city centre being shut down.
Russia condemns Poland’s “sacrilegious” demolition of Soviet monument
Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance says the monument was a “Soviet propaganda object” that had to be removed.
Poland to deport foreigner who performed Nazi salute at Auschwitz Museum
The 34-year-old Colombian citizen was charged with promoting Nazism.
Residents oppose move to add Polish village to list of protected monuments
Ostaszów was established by Nazi Germany in 1936 as an agricultural settlement.
Poland identifies remains of legendary anti-communist resistance fighter
Mieczysław Dziemieszkiewicz, codenamed “Rój”, led a unit that fought the communists for years after the end of WWII.
Archaeologists uncover synagogue in Warsaw Jewish cemetery destroyed by Germans in WWII
The cemetery served what was, until the Holocaust, the second-largest Jewish population of any city in the world.
Poland welcomes Zelensky’s five-point plan for resolving dispute over WWII massacres
Ukraine has pledged to open historical archives and allow more exhumations to take place.
