Stanisław Zalewski, a former member of the Polish underground resistance who turned 100 this year, has fought a long-running legal battle.
WWII
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.
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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”.
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.
