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Swedish daily corrects "Polish death camp" misnomer

The Swedish daily "Svenska Dagbladet" has corrected the phrase "Polish death camp Auschwitz" used in a film review to "German Nazi death camp Auschwitz," the Polish embassy in Stockholm has reported.

Auschwitz Museum open to public from Monday

The Auschwitz Museum, located on the memorial site of the notorious WW2 Auschwitz Nazi death camp in south Poland, will reopen to the public on Monday after several months under lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the museum announced on Thursday.

Lublin marks anniversary of Nazi German death camp liquidation

Poland's eastern city of Lublin on Wednesday marked the 76th anniversary of the liquidation of Majdanek, a death camp where Nazi Germans killed around 80,000 people, including 60,000 Jews between 1941 and 1944.

President commemorates Stutthof death camp victims

The Stutthof death camp is a warning for Europe and the world, President Andrzej Duda wrote on Monday in a letter commemorating the 80th anniversary of the first prisoner transport to the camp, sited in today's north Poland.

‘He was more than just a brave man’: On 76th anniversary of Treblinka Uprising TFN talks to wife of last surviving escapee of horror death camp

Launched on August 2, 1943, in about 30 minutes of violence and mayhem around 300 prisoners managed to find their way through the barbwire to freedom. Among the 63 who survived to see the end of the war was Samuel Willenberg, an artist who would later fight with distinction in the Warsaw Uprising.

75 years ago today, prisoners rose up against their SS guards at the German Nazi death camp Treblinka

Realising that the tide of war had turned, prisoners became fearful that the Germans might try and hide their crimes by murdering all those in the camp and then razing it to the ground. In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance organisation was formed with the goal of seizing control of the camp and escaping to freedom

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Hero Polish porter who fought off London Bridge terrorist collects bravery award from Princess Anne

In a ceremony at Windsor Castle, Princess Anne presented Łukasz Koczocik with the Queen's Medal for Gallantry, which recognises exemplary acts of courage.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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