Sobibór

Polish, Israeli FMs make step to improve relations

Last June, the Israeli government decided to cancel educational trips to Poland for Israeli youth due to a dispute with Warsaw over whether security officers accompanying the groups could carry weapons, which they had done in the past. Przemysław Piątkowski/PAP

The Polish and Israeli foreign ministers held a telephone conversation on Tuesday in what seems to be an attempt to warm relations after a spat concerning visits of Israeli school groups to Poland.

Israeli ambassador to be summoned to MFA over youth trip statements

Israel's ambassador to Poland will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Wednesday to explain public remarks he made that, according to the MFA, misled the public about the reasons Israeli youth trips to Poland have been cancelled.

Explosive new book reveals harrowing account of WWII Jews forced into doing the unthinkable

Published in English, ‘Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation’ by Holocaust academic Dr Katarzyna Person is the tragic story ‘of people who are placed in an impossible situation during war and the decisions they make.’

Special delivery: 1945 Holocaust letter delivered 75-years after being written

Written by a Dutch Jew, the letter detailed the murder of his family at the Sobibór death camp.

“At night, bring a gun”: the ghoulish wartime guide to the General Government region

Baedeker’s sinister travel guide has been described as “one of the most extraordinary documents in the history of both travel literature and WWII”.

Stunning new permanent exhibition makes its debut at Sobibór

It’s hoped that the state-of-the-art exhibition will raise awareness of this largely forgotten Nazi killing facility once Covid restrictions are lifted.

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.

Germany pledges 1 mln Euro to help fund construction of museum at former Nazi-German death camp Sobibór

German ambassador to Poland, Rolf Nikel, said: “I hope that this will contribute to the commemoration of the crimes committed by German hands and will support the process of reconciliation between Poles, Germans and Jews.”

Politicians pay homage to Sobibór uprising heroes

Polish President Andrzej Duda and Deputy Prime Minister, Culture Minister Piotr Gliński commemorated the heroes of the uprising in the German Nazi death camp Sobibór in eastern Poland, on Sunday.

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