Over 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union in the Katyn massacres of 1940.
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Over 10,000 volunteers helped restore 100 Jewish cemeteries in Poland last year
Poland’s hundreds of remaining Jewish cemeteries often rely on local communities and volunteers to maintain them.
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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.
Dozens of gravestones vandalised at Jewish cemetery in Polish city
Polish are investigating after almost 70 gravestones were desecrated overnight.
Concerns in Poland ahead of All Saints’ Day, when millions traditionally visit cemeteries
Normally, millions of Poles visit cemeteries around the holiday.
Repairing the world: The Olympic athlete restoring Poland’s Jewish heritage
Estera Flieger
A town honours its Jewish community that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
