The item was carved by early humans from a mammoth tusk around 40,000 years ago.
History
Auschwitz Museum launches educational material on homosexuals imprisoned at the camp
“The aim is to shed light on the history of one of the lesser-known victim groups of Auschwitz,” says the museum.
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Poland and India commemorate maharajas who sheltered thousands of Polish refugees in WW2
Officials from both countries, as well as descendants of the Indian royal families and former child refugees, attended the “Commemoration of the Good Maharajas”.
Poland lodges protest over demolition of WWII soldiers’ cemetery in Belarus
Warsaw says the “barbaric” incident is part of an “anti-Polish campaign by the Belarusian authorities”.
Polish museum founded in Switzerland 150 years ago saved from eviction threat
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland, became an important location for Poles exiled from their partitioned homeland.
Only Polish guides should show Israeli groups around Auschwitz, says education minister
The education minister also called for a “copy” of the Auschwitz museum to be created near Berlin, as a reminder that it was a German camp.
Poland intervenes after Ukrainian ambassador denies wartime massacre of Poles and Jews
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany also sought to justify Stepan Bandera’s collaboration with Nazi Germany.
Polish state history body to reopen cases of priests who died under communism
There are cases in particular that could be re-examined, says the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Poland protests removal of flags at cemeteries in Russia of murdered Polish officers
Over 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union in the Katyn massacres of 1940.
Polish billionaire to turn Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s Paris house into “space for exceptional women”
Skłodowska-Curie was “a symbol of female strength and a harbinger of great change”, says Dominika Kulczyk.
Poland declares national holiday marking uprisings against German rule
The Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921 helped ensure that part of the region broke away from Germany and joined Poland.
Austrian museum returns animal specimens stolen from Warsaw in WWII
The Haus der Natur in Salzberg discovered the items in a warehouse in 2017 and informed the Polish embassy.
Poland knows what Russian imperialism means. Will the West finally start listening?
Marcin Makowski
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe experienced Russian imperialism first-hand.
Dog digs up huge haul of medieval coins in Poland
The bracteates – thin, single-sided coins – found near Wałbrzych are the first such find in more than a century.
