The decision has been criticised by the owners of the building, who say it will hinder plans to redevelop the area.
History
Tombstone of Polish WWII exiled leader Władysław Sikorski transferred from UK to Poland
The item will become part of the collection of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw.
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Israeli official condemns report Poland would arrest Netanyahu if he attends Auschwitz anniversary
“We are obliged to respect the decisions of the International Criminal Court,” says a Polish deputy foreign minister.
Remains of German Enigma machine discovered buried in Poland
It is likely to have been destroyed and buried by retreating German forces at the end of the war.
Positive sentiment towards Poles among Ukrainians falls by half in two years
Most identified border blockades by Polish farmers and the WWII Volhynia massacres as reasons for disputes between the two nations.
The Polish town 97% destroyed in WWII which then rose from the ashes
Filip Mazurczak
No Polish town – and probably none anywhere in Europe – suffered more destruction than Jasło.
US Holocaust Museum adds names of 3,000 Jews helped by Polish diplomats to database
The Polish consulate in Switzerland issued fake Latin American documents to help recipients survive under German occupation.
Only known banner bearing Hitler’s personal standard found in Poland
The item had lain unidentified for decades in Poznań city hall museum.
Law banning glorification of Ukrainian nationalist Bandera proposed by Polish opposition
The law would place propagation of “Banderism” alongside Nazism, fascism and communism as a crime carrying a jail sentence of up to three years.
Poland and Ukraine announce “progress” on exhumation of WWII massacre victims
Ukraine has indicated there are “no obstacles” to exhumations taking place and that it will “positively consider” requests.
Nineteenth-century Japanese coin found buried in Poland
Such 100-mon coins were produced in Japan in the period 1835-1870.
Polish opposition picks non-party candidate for presidential election
Karol Nawrocki, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), is a relatively little known figure.
Polish theatre to perform writer’s unfinished play after it was completed by AI
Witkacy began to write the work in 1938 but it remained unfinished at the time of his death by suicide in 1939.
“My love letter to Poland”: Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-tipped A Real Pain premieres in Warsaw
Eisenberg’s ancestors were Jews from Poland.
