Around half of the remains belonged to children, and most show signs of brutal deaths, including skulls pierced with farming tools.
Around half of the remains belonged to children, and most show signs of brutal deaths, including skulls pierced with farming tools.
The Institute of National Remembrance has been leaderless since its previous head, Karol Nawrocki, become president.
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“It is deeply troubling that the statement commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz failed to mention the Polish victims of the camp.”
“To this day, the German state has not paid Poland reparations for the evils of WWII,” declared Karol Nawrocki.
“It’s been 163 years since the January Uprising and one thing remains unchanged: Russia remains a threat,” said Karol Nawrocki.
Wojciech Konończuk
Poland has paid more for the maintenance of former camps than Germany has ever given to Polish WWII victims.
The claims echo Vladimir Putin’s longstanding revisionist narrative about the war.
The Rusyns are from a region that today lies around the borders between Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania.
Work will take place in three former Polish villages where residents were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists.
Poland’s foreign ministry has “reassured” the president that “there is no threat on our western border”.
Ben Koschalka
Many customs have remained unchanged for generations, if not centuries.
Nawrocki said that the meeting was “a sign that we are together” and “bad news for Moscow”.
“I can proudly say that post-communism has today ended in Poland”, declared Karol Nawrocki.
“We say ‘no’ to…Russians who believe that these lands somehow belong to their sphere of influence.”