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Polish WWII memorial desecrated in Gardelegen, Germany

On Tuesday, Marcin Król confirmed in a tweet that crosses and Stars of David were damaged and torn out at the cemetery in Gardelegen. Marcin Król/Twitter

Twenty-four graves in the Gardelegen cemetery, northern Germany, where Poles burned alive by the Germans in 1945 are buried, have been desecrated, the Gardelegen Memorial has reported.

Plans unveiled for museum and memorial site at former WWII camp where ‘untold numbers perished’

The new museum at the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp which became immortalized in the film Schindler’s List will not just commemorate those that perished but will also dedicate itself to publicising the testimonies of the many that survived.

Poland to take down FOUR Red Army memorials

Four memorials to the Soviet Red Army will be taken down on Thursday morning, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), the body charged with investigating wartime and communist-era crimes, said on Wednesday.

FM hails Nobel prizes as reflecting fight against totalitarianism

Poland's foreign minister has said the choice of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners is clear recognition of the fight against totalitarianism and the defence of human rights and civil freedoms.

Another Polish WWII memorial site destroyed in Belarus

A memorial site with tombs of Polish World War Two Home Army (AK) soldiers in north-western Belarus is being levelled to the ground by the Minsk regime services, Lukasz Jasina, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, said on Thursday.

Another Polish WWII memorial site found destroyed in Belarus

The desecrated memorial site in the village of Kaczycze, in the Grodno region of Belarus, was the final resting place for 89 Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers killed during a battle against Soviet NKVD forces near Raviny, Belarus, in January 1945.

Polish diplomat summoned by Belarusian foreign ministry

Polish charge d'affaires in Belarus Marcin Wojciechowski has been summoned by the Belarusian foreign ministry, the Polish foreign ministry told PAP on Thursday.

Warsaw demands explanation after Belarus destroys Polish WWII memorial

The memorial, in the western village of Mikuliszki, consisted of the remains of the wartime headquarters of a Polish Home Army unit whose members died in combat in the area in 1944.

MFA concerned over desecration of Polish memorials in Belarus

Poland's foreign ministry has raised concerns over the increasing number of acts of vandalism against Polish memorial sites in Belarus.

Tensions between Poland and Russia mount as Polish flag removed from Katyn war memorial in Smolensk

On Friday, Smolensk mayor Andrei Borisov posted on social media a photo of the memorial site showing a Russian flag next to the empty flagpole.

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The first war-loss to be repatriated from the Far East, the Madonna with Child painted by the Italian master Alessandro Turchi at the end of the 16th century was stolen by the Germans during the war from the extensive Lubomirski art collection in Przeworsk.

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