The Polish Senate (upper house) on Friday unanimously backed a resolution protesting against Russian accusations of Poland's collaboration with Nazi Germany and complicity in the outbreak of World War Two.
The Russian Defence Ministry on Friday accused Poland's World War Two Home Army (AK) resistance of exterminating Jews and Ukrainians in Warsaw prior to the city's 1945 liberation by the Red Army.
Using his name and fame, Dariusz Popiela organised the restoration of the cemetery in Grybów and helps teach youngsters about the past. During the war the town was the location of a ghetto into which the Germans packed Grybów’s Jewish population and Jews from neighbouring towns before sending them to the notorious Bełżec death camp.
Poland will not give up on retrieving Portrait of a Young Man by Italian painter Raphael Santi, stolen by the Germans during the Second World War, Deputy Culture Minister Magdalena Gawin told Polska The Times newspaper.
The fragments of the V-2 rocket, short for Vergeltungswaffen 2, which translates as Retribution Weapon 2 and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile, were found near the village of Niwiska.
The ‘Teraz ’43’ project gives new life to haunting images of those in forced into the Ghetto.
A two-day international conference devoted to the fate of Poland's Jews in the early years of the country's World War II occupation by Nazi Germany will set off in Warsaw on Monday.
The horror discovery was made at the site of the lesser-known Treblinka I forced labour camp where around 20,000 people were imprisoned of which around 10,000 died from exhaustion, injury or execution.
Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday commemorated Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of over 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, eastern Poland.
The victims of Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin (eastern Poland), was remembered by ceremonies in the city on the event's 76 anniversary on Sunday.
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