The head of the the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Karol Nawrocki, is currently a leading presidential candidate.

The head of the the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Karol Nawrocki, is currently a leading presidential candidate.
Researchers believe the practice was likely carried out for ritualistic reasons rather than being necessitated by hunger.
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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.
Norman Davies
The historian recalls his participation in commemorations of the Katyn massacre, days before the Smolensk plane crash.
Fabio Parasecoli
Food has always been at the centre of debate on what Poland is or should be.