The development is “an example of how joint efforts help both nations restore historical memory and justice”, says Ukraine’s deputy culture minister.
History
Call for museum to honour deaf platoon that fought in Warsaw Uprising
The platoon, formed as the Institute for the Deaf in Warsaw, numbered 29 strong by the time of the uprising.
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Polish city auctions remains of 18th century palace that served as Nazi HQ
Hatzfeld Palace in Wrocław was mostly destroyed in WWII.
The Polish opening: does Chess World Cup success augur a new golden age for Poland?
Mateusz Bartel
Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s recent triumph, as well as government support, have boosted the sport.
Polish government turns communist-era hotel into museum instead of planned shopping centre
Hotel Cracovia operated from 1965-2011.
Mass grave shows “evidence of genocide” against Poles by Nazi Germany, say archaeologists
The area in which the grave was found was named the “Valley of Death” by locals due to the number of mass executions.
Inventing authenticity: how the rebuilding of Warsaw’s Old Town became a model for other cities
Andrew Demshuk
Warsaw’s Old Town was recreated after wartime destruction.
Holocaust scholars win appeal against Polish court ruling ordering them to apologise
“Interference in academic research” is not the role of a court, said the judge.
Polish archbishop criticises John Lennon’s “Imagine” and condemns “false belief of Europeanness”
The song offers a “poisonous utopia”, warned the archbishop of Częstochowa, speaking at Poland’s holiest Catholic shrine.
Polish foundation launches app to document forgotten cemeteries
The aim is to create a growing database of burial sites in Poland and the wider region.
International campaign on “how Poles brought freedom to western Europe” to launch
The project will be run by the state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Polish nationalists march against “LGBT totalitarianism” on anniversary of WWII uprising
One of the march’s organisers also took down an EU flag.
The underground photographer who chronicled the Warsaw Uprising
Ben Koschalka
Sylwester Braun captured the dramatic and tragic events of the struggle against Nazi-German occupation.
Ancient Pomeranian culture face urns discovered in burial ground on Polish riverbed
The oldest artefacts are three thousand years old.
