The cemetery served what was, until the Holocaust, the second-largest Jewish population of any city in the world.
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Poland welcomes Zelensky’s five-point plan for resolving dispute over WWII massacres
Ukraine has pledged to open historical archives and allow more exhumations to take place.
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Auschwitz Museum criticises Germany for failing to mention Nazis’ Polish victims in commemoration
“It is deeply troubling that the statement commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz failed to mention the Polish victims of the camp.”
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It’s time for Germany to start paying the cost of maintaining Auschwitz and other former Nazi camps in Poland [Opinion]
Wojciech Konończuk
Poland has paid more for the maintenance of former camps than Germany has ever given to Polish WWII victims.
Poland hindered Soviet efforts to prevent WWII, claims head of Russian state archives
The claims echo Vladimir Putin’s longstanding revisionist narrative about the war.
German parliament calls for memorial to Polish WWII victims
The idea has been discussed for years, and was previously approved by the Bundestag in 2020.
Germany agrees to return medieval documents looted by the Nazis to Poland
The culture minister called the decision “the most important and valuable return of stolen cultural heritage in modern Polish history”.
Former Auschwitz prisoner can sue German publisher for writing “Polish death camp”, rules court
Stanisław Zalewski, a former member of the Polish underground resistance who turned 100 this year, has fought a long-running legal battle.
Poland criticises Israeli Holocaust institute’s post suggesting Polish responsibility for German crimes
The Auschwitz Museum was among the wide range of Polish officials and institutions to criticise Yad Vashem’s post.
New US ambassador condemns “grotesque falsehood” that Poles responsible for Holocaust
Thomas Rose, also said Poland is today “the safest country in Europe for a Jew to walk the streets”.
German ambassador says Polish opposition “helping Putin” with WWII reparations claims
His comments sparked outrage among opposition politicians as well as the head of President Nawrocki’s foreign-policy office.
Polish president appoints “ambassador for historical diplomacy”
Karol Nawrocki has appointed his former PhD supervisor, Grzegorz Berendt, to the position.
Poland secures return of stolen artwork that appeared for auction in Denmark
Its Danish owners agreeing to hand the work back to Poland after learning its provenance.
Last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter dies
Michael Smuss passed away, aged 99, at a care home in Israel.
