Poland’s president and defence minister were among those to condemn the exhibition at Gdańsk city hall.

Poland’s president and defence minister were among those to condemn the exhibition at Gdańsk city hall.
The man had an estimated height of 180cm (5’11”), exceptionally tall by the standards of the time.
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The coins date back to the period of Bolesław the Bold, who was first duke and then king of Poland between 1058 and 1079.
The “Polish Operation” of 1937-38 was an ethnic cleansing action against Poles in the Soviet Union during which over 100,000 were sentenced to death.
Last year, the remains of a woman buried with similar “anti-vampire” measures were discovered nearby.
Researchers believe that the remains, which date from the 14th-century, could belong to one of the largest medieval synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe.
The holiday honours Polish children who suffered under German and Soviet occupation during World War II.
MonumentApp offers ready-made sightseeing tour plans on a variety of themes and interests.
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas crashed in what is now Poland just 650 km short of their destination.
A a total of 72 artillery shells from World War Two were removed by army sappers.
The heads of Poland’s Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church signed a joint declaration on the Volhynia massacres.
The tracks were discovered at the wartime headquarters of Nazi Germany’s military high command, located in what is now Poland.
The memorial was revealed on the 80th anniversary of Władysław Sikorski’s death in a plane crash that remains unexplained.
The scene, made up of 21,000 bricks and displayed in Szymborska’s home city of Kraków, depicts the moment she was awarded the 1996 prize.