Communist police

Film depicting true life story of poet’s murder by communist police nominated for Oscars

Directed by award-winning Jan P. Matuszyński, the film Leave No Traces tells the story of the murder of Grzegorz Przemyk, a teenage who died shortly after receiving a severe beating in a police station in 1983. Press materials

VIDEO: Directed by award-winning Jan P. Matuszyński, the film Leave No Traces tells the story of the murder of Grzegorz Przemyk, a teenage who died shortly after receiving a severe beating in a police station in 1983.

Investigators uncover remains of teenagers murdered in Stalinist horror jail

WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES: The remains of three bodies belonging to victims judged to be around 19-20 years old were found by the Search and Identification Bureau of the Institute of National Remembrance.

Stunning new museum to be built in memory of murdered priest Jerzy Popiełuszko

According to Mirosław Nizio, the principal architect and designer, the museum will follow “a timeless form” that will enable people to “nurture” the memory and spiritual heritage of the priest.”

Harrowing images by US photographer of village set ablaze by commie security forces go on display to mark tragic anniversary

The disturbing images captured by photographer John Vachon show the village of Wąwolnica in eastern Poland engulfed in thick flames as locals desperately try to save their possessions and livestock as their homes are torched by post-war Communist security services.

Gruesome remains found on housing estate at site of former secret police prison

Known as “Toledo”, the prison in Warsaw’s Praga district operated from 1944-1956,  first being run by the Soviet NKVD, and later by Poland’s communist-era Ministry of Public Security.

The hero insurgent who interviewed a Nazi monster after they found themselves sharing a Stalinist cell

On the anniversary of resistance hero Kazimierz Moczarski being incarcerated with Jurgen Stroop, the man who hunted down and quashed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, TFN’s Alex Webber looks back at the incredible story of their shared confinement and the book that emerged exploring what “led certain Germans to become genocidal killers.”

Anti-commie firearms found buried behind former secret police HQ

The rusted firearms are thought to have belonged to anti-communist partisans who waged a guerrilla war against state forces for a number of years after 1945.

Death of student beaten to death by communist police remembered

President Duda today laid a wreath in memory of a student who was beaten to death by Poland’s Communist police.

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