If identified, the perpetrators could face up to eight years in prison.
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Polish government criticised over firing of director of Polish History Museum
Robert Kostro had led the museum for 18 years since its founding.
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Poland investigating provenance of 16th-century “king’s sword” on auction in Germany
The German auction house says the sword belongs to Sigismund III Vasa, king of Poland from 1587-1632.
Ukraine agrees to exhumation of Polish victims of WW2 massacre
The massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia – and the remains of victims – have long been a source of tension between Poland and Ukraine.
Father of girl born thanks to IVF to sue Polish education minister and author of new textbook
The “History and the Present” textbook compares IVF to human breeding and asks “who will love the children produced in this way?”
Anti-communist “Solidarity is alive” inscription from 1980s found during building renovation in Poland
The inscription is likely to have been created during the period of martial law, when Solidarity was outlawed.
Poland lodges protest over demolition of WWII soldiers’ cemetery in Belarus
Warsaw says the “barbaric” incident is part of an “anti-Polish campaign by the Belarusian authorities”.
Polish state history body to reopen cases of priests who died under communism
There are cases in particular that could be re-examined, says the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Polish billionaire to turn Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s Paris house into “space for exceptional women”
Skłodowska-Curie was “a symbol of female strength and a harbinger of great change”, says Dominika Kulczyk.
Poland declares national holiday marking uprisings against German rule
The Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921 helped ensure that part of the region broke away from Germany and joined Poland.
Poland and Ukraine must forget grand projects and embrace “mediocrity” to build relations
Daniel Szeligowski
Attempts to forge a strategic partnership have fuelled mutual disappointment.
Polish village commemorates long-lost Scottish community
Poland once had a significant Scottish population, but its history has been largely forgotten.
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.
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).
