Karol Nawrocki has appointed his former PhD supervisor, Grzegorz Berendt, to the position.
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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.
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The legal questions behind Poland’s claim for war reparations from Germany
Mateusz Piątkowski
Why is Poland demanding reparations, does it have a valid legal case, and what will happen next?
Scholz rejects Poland’s war reparation demand, saying issue already “settled”
The German chancellor “is deeply mistaken”, says the Polish MP who oversaw a report on Poland’s reparations claim.
Poland to seek war reparations from Germany to cover losses of $1.3 trillion
Jarosław Kaczyński also welcomed Israel to join Poland’s claim, as Polish Jews made up a large proportion of those killed.
WWII “history is repeating itself” in Ukraine, warns Poland on anniversary of Nazi German invasion
“Imperial evil has been reborn. And part of Europe still does not draw conclusions from the tragedy of the war,” said Poland’s defence minister.
Exhibition shows children’s drawings of Ukraine war alongside those from Poland after WWII
“The similarity between historical and contemporary works is striking,” said the exhibition’s curator.
Warsaw ghetto archaeologists find children’s shoes and books
The excavations are taking place at a site where the Jewish underground resistance was based.
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”.
Austrian museum returns animal specimens stolen from Warsaw in WWII
The Haus der Natur in Salzberg discovered the items in a warehouse in 2017 and informed the Polish embassy.
Secret WWII radio found under floor in Warsaw apartment
The radio was used by the underground resistance to listen to foreign broadcasts.
UN adds Polish amendments to new Holocaust denial resolution
Among the changes proposed by Poland is the rejection of attempts to blame other nations for German Nazi crimes.
Poland launches contest for school students to “promote truth” about Soviet massacre
The 1940 Katyn massacre saw 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia murdered by the Soviet secret police.
Controversy over memorial to Pole killed for helping Jews near Nazi death camp
A historian says it is part of efforts to obscure “Polish complicity in the Holocaust” but a deputy minister accuses him of spreading “fake news”.
