Massacre

Grandma at centre of Holocaust defamation row tells historians ‘write the truth about history’

Filomena Leszczyńska, the 80-year-old niece of wartime village mayor Edward Malinowski who historians said was complicit in a massacre of Jews during WWII, said: “If these researchers are well-educated and intelligent people, why is their research biased? Research should be impartial.” TVP Info screengrab/PAP

Filomena Leszczyńska, the 80-year-old niece of wartime village mayor Edward Malinowski who historians said was complicit in a massacre of Jews during WWII, said: “If these researchers are well-educated and intelligent people, why is their research biased? Research should be impartial.”

Polish PM marks Wujek coal pit massacre

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has commemorated the shooting dead of nine protesting coal miners by communist riot police units in December 1981.

Bones and bullets unearthed at WWII execution site dubbed ‘Death Valley’

Dr. Dawid Kobialka, from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences said the grim discovery related to a massacre by Gestapo officers in the second half of January 1945.

Polish PM expresses outrage over slogan in Ukrainian village

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday he was outraged to learn of an anti-Polish slogan written in the Ukrainian village of Huta Pieniacka, where many Poles perished at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists during World War II.

PM, President mark Wujek coal pit massacre

PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday in Katowice, southern Poland, commemorated the 38th anniversary of the December 1981 Wujek massacre, in which communist riot police killed nine protesting miners in the city's Wujek coal mine.

Jersey City Council to move Katyń Memorial to new site

Jersey City Council decided on Thursday to remove the Katyń Memorial from the Exchange Square where it stands now. There were six votes for moving the monument 60 metres from its current location and three against.

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