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Site of mass WWII killings known as Death Valley to be exhumed after researchers discover remains

Archaeologists want to find the killing fields where around 1,000 Poles were murdered by the SS in the town of Chojnice. Public domain/ Archeologia Doliny Śmierci/Facebook

Over 1,000 men, women and children were slaughtered in an area on the outskirts of the town of Chojnice in north Poland by Hitler’s executioners who later burned the bodies in ditches.

Roma association publishes guidebook for Auschwitz visitors

The Roma Association in Poland has published the first guidebook for visitors to the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp. Its goal is to present the history of Roma inmates murdered in the camp.

Vigil lights commemorate Holocaust victims on Auschwitz site

Six vigil lights were lit on Tuesday at the memorial site of the Nazi-German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland to commemorate six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In 1951, the Israeli parliament instituted April 21 as Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Virtual Auschwitz Museum attracts 50,000 visitors in March

Fifty thousand people visited Poland's Auschwitz Museum in March thanks to virtual online visits, the former Nazi German death camp's authorities announced on Twitter on Thursday.

Harrowing documents of Jews seeking passports to flee Hitler’s death camps handed over to Auschwitz Museum

The unique collection sent to WWII Polish diplomats known as the Ładoś Group who tried to save the Jews from being murdered, was acquired from a private owner in Israel thanks to the efforts of the Polish Embassy in Bern and Markus Blechner, a Polish honorary consul in Zurich.

Unseen pics of Sobibór death camp shed ghastly light on Nazi horror facility

The pictures provide invaluable evidence on life in a camp that went largely un-photographed.

Book about Polish WWII hero receives Costa Book of the Year award

A biography about Witold Pilecki, the Polish war hero who volunteered to go to the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp and then warned the world about the Nazi death machine, has been granted the Costa Book of the Year award.

Poles back president's response to Russia's information attack - poll

Sixty percent of Poles positively assess the actions taken by President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the international stage after Russian President Vladimir Putin verbally attacked Poland, according to a survey by IBRiS pollster.

Auschwitz remembrance is important for over 90 pct of Poles - poll

The remembrance of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is important or very significant for 94 percent of the Polish people, according to the results of a Kantar poll commissioned by a Jagiellonian University lecturer.

Auschwitz must not be used for political games - Poland's chief rabbi

Poland's chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich has told PAP that Holocaust remembrance, a terrifying symbol of which Auschwitz-Birkenau is, must never be used for the sake of political games.

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Life of richest Pole to have ever lived after he won 774 kilos of gold in a casino is explored in riveting new book

A high-living bon vivant, Karol Jaroszyński’s youth was characterised by wild spending and long nights in Europe’s most glamorous casinos. And then he literally broke the bank of Monte Carlo by winning 774 kilos of gold at the roulette table.

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