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Polish President, US Vice-President to visit Auschwitz

Polish President Andrzej Duda and US Vice-President Mike Pence are to visit the former Nazi-German death camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland on Friday, a symbol of Jews' extermination and the martyrdom of Poles and other nations.

No, no, no! Poland’s US Embassy rebukes reporter’s inaccurate reporting that WWII Jews fought against ‘Polish and Nazi regime’

The Polish Embassy told reporter Andrea Mitchell: “The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a heroic act against the German Nazis who established the ghetto & carried out the #Holocaust.”

Polish, Israeli, US leaders to lay flowers at Ghetto Heroes Monument

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki along with US Vice-President Mike Pence and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu will lay flowers at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw on Thursday. Morawiecki and Pence will also lay wreaths at the Warsaw Uprising Monument.

Poland signs rocket artillery deal with US

An agreement on the purchase of US HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) self-propelled rocket artillery was signed in Warsaw on Wednesday. The price for 20 launchers with ammunition is USD 414 million.

President, US Vice-President to visit Auschwitz on Friday

President Andrzej Duda and US Vice-President Mike Pence will visit the memorial site of the former Nazi-German death camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland on Friday, Duda's office informed on Monday.

Polish president to inaugurate Middle East conference

Poland's President Andrzej Duda will inaugurate the Middle East conference in Warsaw, to take place on Feb. 13 and 14, a presidential spokesperson announced on Monday.

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