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Today’s news round-up in Poland

Today’s news round-up in Poland Kalbar/TFN

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Family minister wants stricter child abuse laws

Family and Social Policy Minister, Marlena Malag told PAP on Friday that she has asked the justice minister to begin work immediately on the Penal Code section that deals with child abuse.

Rare documents listing Katyń massacre victims go on public show to mark official Victims’ Memorial Day

The yellowing papers known as the Majchrzycka archive were secretly copied by Home Army soldier Jadwiga Majchrzycka and provide key evidence of the Soviet Union’s massacre of Polish officers at Katyń in 1940.

Duda draws parallels with Russian war crimes against Poles and Ukrainians

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has compared some of the crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine to the mass murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD during World War Two.

Ukraine should reflect on Volhynia crime, says Polish FM spokesman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Poland offers an opportunity to achieve reconciliation between the two countries over the massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry has said.

Police bust one-million-a-day illegal cigarette factory

The Central Investigation Bureau (CBSP) has shut down a counterfeit cigarette production facility in south western Poland that could turn out up to a million cigarettes a day.

Russian leaders must answer for war crimes in Ukraine says minister

Russia's leaders must be held accountable for war crimes committed in Ukraine, a Polish deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Former Nazi typist aged 97 found guilty of WWII murders

Irmgard Furchner was given a two-year suspended sentence by the district court in the German town of Itzehoe after being convicted under juvenile law owing to the fact that she was only 18 years old at the time of the crimes.

Polish teenager killed by peer in the United Kingdom

A Polish 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed with a knife by another teenager in Gateshead, northeast England, Gateshead police said on Wednesday.

Third Pole arrested in Dutch crime reporter's murder

A 30-year-old Pole has been arrested in Poland on suspicion of involvement in last July's assassination of a popular Dutch investigative journalist Peter de Vries, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday.

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  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
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Haunting never-before-seen photos reveal Jewish life in first few weeks of Nazi German occupation

Released by the Warsaw Rising Museum, and compiled in collaboration with the Jewish Historical Institute, the book ‘W obliczu Zagłady’ (‘In the Face of the Holocaust’) begins by showing pictures taken not just before the Ghetto Wall was erected, but before Jews were even required to wear identifying armbands

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