Anniversary

Poland sends Lithuania message of support to mark 30th anniversary of country’s independence

To mark the 30th anniversary of Lithuania’s Independence Day, an enormous illumination in Polish and Lithuanian has appeared on the front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw saying Wolnosc Laisve (Freedom Lithuania). Albert Zawada/PAP

Freedom Defender’s Day, commemorated in Lithuania on the 13th January each year, honours those killed 30 years ago when unarmed civilians in Vilnius stood up to defend Lithuanian independence against Soviet forces attempting to seize control.

Roma camp liquidation in wartime ghetto marked online due to Covid-19

The 79th anniversary of the closure of a Roma camp in the World War Two Jewish ghetto in Poland's central city of Lodz, known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, was marked online on Tuesday due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Auschwitz liberation anniversary ceremony to focus on fate of children

The 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27 will this year be held online and will highlight the fate of children in the camp.

President commemorates workers fallen in 1970 protests

The Polish president has paid tribute to dozens of workers killed by communist police and soldiers during mass protests in 1970 in Baltic-coast cities, saying that the blood shed that day had helped to give birth to a “free Poland”.

Freedom achieved through struggle with communist occupier - PM

Poland's prime minister speaking on the 50th anniversary of the December 1970 worker protests said that memory about those who shed their blood for a free Poland should not be forgotten.

Polish PM marks Wujek coal pit massacre

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has commemorated the shooting dead of nine protesting coal miners by communist riot police units in December 1981.

Gdańsk marks 50 years since brutal strike suppression

Armed militia confrontations with protestors led to the deaths of around 40 people, while over 1,000 people were injured.

Mazowsze to give online live performance of ‘Polish Bethlehem’

On December 13th at 5p.m. the Mazowsze group will perform Lucjan Rydel's ‘Betlejem Polskie’ (Polish Bethlehem), directed by Zbigniew Kułagowski.

“I stood on the edge of Germany’s historical abyss…” The day West German Chancellor Willy Brandt stunned the world as he atoned for his country’s past

Commonly cited as one of the most iconic reconciliatory moments ever captured on camera, on this day 50 years ago the West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, sank to his knees in Warsaw in atonement of his nation’s wartime atrocities.

President Duda commemorates November Uprising outbreak anniversary

Speaking at Sunday's commemorations President Duda said that today it is difficult for young people to understand what it truly means to have Polish authorities chosen by Polish people in free elections.

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