Memorial

‘I investigated the past to free myself’: One woman’s incredible story to commemorate her Polish-Jewish family lost in the Holocaust

Evelyn Fine plans to lay two stolpersteine outside the old family home which still stands in Grajewo in memory of her great-grandparents who lived there. Evelyn Fine

Evelyn Fine plans to lay two stolpersteine, brass-faced cobblestones that contain the name, date of birth and, when available, the date and location of death and location of death, outside the old family home which still stands in Grajewo in memory of her great-grandparents who lived there.

Warsaw to help restore Washington Kosciuszko memorial

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski has declared the city's help in restoring a memorial to Polish and US national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, located in front to the White House in Washington DC.

Berlin to honour the 12,000 Poles who took part in the Battle of Berlin

The memorial plaque, the flag design of which is a reference to the Polish flag that Polish soldiers raised on the Victory Column in Berlin’s Tiergarten on 2 May 1945, will be mounted on the city’s Polytechnic where the First Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division finally broke the fierce resistance of the Germans defending the building.

Polish president honours Katyn victims at Warsaw memorial

Polish President Andrzej Duda laid flowers on Friday at Warsaw's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in tribute to more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war executed by the NKVD Soviet secret police in Katyn, western Russia, and other locations in the spring of 1940.

Hiding place of priceless Warsaw Ghetto chronicle to be marked by memorial

The Ringelblum Archive provided historians with first-hand accounts and evidence of the horrors perpetrated against the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Memorial to Polish soldiers resited in Boston after 12 years

The Partisans Memorial, a sculpture depicting Polish WWII underground soldiers was unveiled after 12 years in Boston, the Boston Herald daily announced on Tuesday.

President pays tribute at the Katyń Memorial in Jersey City

US-visiting President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda on Wednesday laid flowers at the Katyń Memorial in Jersey City, which commemorates 22,000 Polish POWs mass-executed by the Soviets in April and May 1940 in west Russia's Katyń Forest.

Jersey City, Polish diaspora reach accord on Katyń memorial

Jersey City authorities and the local Polish diaspora on Monday reached a consensus around the location of a memorial to the 1940 Katyń Forest Massacre, in which the Soviets mass-executed around 22,000 Polish POWs.

FM praises solution to dispute over Katyń memorial in US, as PM helps

Poland's Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said on Monday that the country has succeeded in bringing the dispute over the Katyń memorial in Jersey City to a successful conclusion. It also emerged that PM Mateusz Morawiecki was also involved in the efforts.

Agreement regarding Katyń Memorial reached with Jersey City mayor

The Katyń Memorial in Jersey City will remain at the embankment of the Hudson River. It will be moved 60 metres from the place where it is now, Polish Consul general in New York Maciej Golubiewski wrote on Twitter late on Friday.

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