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Warsaw Ghetto border sealed 80 years ago today, imprisoning 460,000 Jews behind walls that they had to pay for and build themselves

The sixteen-kilometre wall was an ever-tightening noose around the Jewish district and a further stage in the Germans’ plan to exterminate all Jews in occupied Poland. PAP/CAF

The sixteen-kilometre wall was an ever-tightening noose around the Jewish district and a further stage in the Germans’ plan to exterminate all Jews in occupied Poland.

New film tells the incredible story of secret society which compiled documents detailing the horrors of the Holocaust

The Ringelblum Archive survived the destruction of Warsaw where after the war it was found buried under the rubble in 10 metal cases and two metal milk bottles.

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Life of richest Pole to have ever lived after he won 774 kilos of gold in a casino is explored in riveting new book

A high-living bon vivant, Karol Jaroszyński’s youth was characterised by wild spending and long nights in Europe’s most glamorous casinos. And then he literally broke the bank of Monte Carlo by winning 774 kilos of gold at the roulette table.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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