Hundreds of local residents gathered to watch the monument being demolished, with many applauding as it collapsed.

Hundreds of local residents gathered to watch the monument being demolished, with many applauding as it collapsed.
Holocaust historian Alex Dancyg was an active advocate for Polish-Israeli dialogue.
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Daniel Tilles
Whatever one thinks of the Polish government’s historical policy, Poland must be properly represented.
A spokesman for President Duda sets out “our condition for being present at the ceremony”.
Some in PiS are “conscious allies” in Putin’s “project to disintegrate the EU and Nato”, says Tusk.
Children as young as seven acted as prisoners being gassed.
Russia’s president is attempting to reintroduce “Stalin’s historical narrative”, says the Polish foreign ministry.
The Polish government has accused Putin of reviving “Stalinist propaganda”.
Nicholas Hodge
The Czartoryski Museum reopens following a controversial state purchase.
Stanley Bill gives a geopolitical overview of 1000 years of Polish history in 5 minutes.
Photographer Jerzy Ochoński captured the drama, tragedy and absurdity of martial law in Poland.
Percy Metcalfe
The diplomats in Switzerland forged up to 10,000 passports intended for Jews trapped in German-occupied Europe.
Parts of the former camp complex, where thousands of Poles were imprisoned and killed, have “turned into places unworthy of commemoration”.
In the first part of our Brief History of Poland, Stanley Bill looks at the beginnings of the Polish state and the Baptism of Poland.