Jarosław Szarek

French daily marks anniv's of Poland's worker protests and martial law

In December 1970 protests erupted in cities on the Baltic coast on December 14, 1970, over planned food price hikes. They culminated on December 17, when police opened fire on shipyard workers, killing many people. Edmund Pepliński/PAP

A French newspaper has marked the 50th anniversary of worker protests on the Polish coast, and the 39th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by publishing an article entitled the "Unknown war in the middle of Europe".

Polish remembrance institute, US National Archives to work together

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), investigating Nazi German and communist crimes against Poles will start, in January 2020, cooperation with the US National Archives in research on documents from World War II and from the communist regime in Poland.

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