Michael Smuss passed away, aged 99, at a care home in Israel.
WWII
Two men hospitalised in Poland after drunkenly exploding WWII artillery shell in apartment
The owner of the apartment said he had found the artillery shell in the forest years ago and brought it home.
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Poland renews push for war reparations amid signs new German coalition may be more amenable
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed the formation of a state Institute of War Losses.
Poland to create War Losses Institute to push for German WWII reparations
The head of a parliamentary commission on war losses has previously suggested Germany could owe $850 billion.
Award-winning Polish director takes on WWII pogrom of Jews in latest film
Nicholas Hodge
Unlike previous directors, Wojciech Smarzowski depicts the massacre directly.
Right-wing activists replace “Nazi” with “German” on WWII memorials in Warsaw
They claim to be fighting Germany’s efforts to promote a “historical lie” by absolving itself of responsibility for Nazi crimes.
The story of a Holocaust survivor’s returns to Poland
Agnieszka Wądołowska
Ryszard Ores was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, but regularly returned to Kraków after the war.
“We won’t allow Poland’s borders to be violated,” says president on WWII anniversary
Andrzej Duda promised to protect Poland from current “hybrid” threats.
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.
Poland marks 80th anniversary of Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbours
At least 340 Jews were killed by non-Jewish Poles, most of them burned alive in a barn.
Poland marks 75th anniversary of “Europe’s last pogrom” of Jews in Kielce
More than 40 were killed following rumours Jews had kidnapped a Christian child.
Son of Auschwitz survivor takes Germany to human rights court over “Polish death camps” claim
Germany’s highest court refused to enforce a Polish ruling.
Belarus declares national holiday marking Soviet invasion of Poland
The date “symbolises historical justice and reunification of the Belarusian nation”, says President Lukashenko’s office.
Church bell hidden from Nazis in occupied Poland dug up 80 years later
A monk ordered it to be hidden when the Germans began seizing bells to melt them down for metal.
