There was “absolutely no anti-Polish intent”, says Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha.
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Built 140 years ago and still in use, Warsaw’s sewers connect the city to its brutal past
Filip Mazurczak
Built by British engineers, the sewers survived the destruction of WWII, when they were used by resistance fighters to move around Warsaw.
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Poland honours 101-year-old Polish-Israeli Warsaw Uprising veteran
Stanisław Aronson received the Bene Merito for his efforts to “promote Poland’s good name and reconciliation in Polish-Jewish relations”.
Warsaw Uprising veteran promoted to colonel on her 105th birthday
Urszula Tauer, pseudonym “Ala”, took “enormous risks every day, fully aware of the potential consequences”.
Mass grave discovered at site where Ukrainian nationalists massacred Poles in WWII
Ukraine previously banned exhumations, but last year allowed them to resume in a diplomatic breakthrough.
Polish government backs planned museum on WWII massacres by Ukrainian nationalists
Around 100,000 ethnic Poles are believed to have been killed in the Volhynia massacres.
Poland returns to Greece Jewish objects stolen by Germany during Holocaust
It is the first time that Poland has returned historical objects following a request from a foreign country under Polish restitution law.
Ukraine permits further searches for Polish victims of WWII massacres
The searches will take place in the former village of Huta Pieniacka, where around 850 Poles were killed by Ukrainians on on 28 February 1944.
Nazi documents withdrawn from German auction passed to Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
The auction was cancelled after international criticism and intervention by Poland’s government.
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.
New documents raise questions about African immigrant who became a Polish WWII hero
Nicholas Boston
August Browne was believed to have fought in the Warsaw Uprising, but that claim is now in doubt.
Huge stash of WWII resistance documents found under floorboards in Warsaw
The collection also includes the diary of a young woman living under the Nazi-German occupation.
