Victims

Rare documents listing Katyń massacre victims go on public show to mark official Victims’ Memorial Day

The yellowing papers known as the Majchrzycka archive were secretly copied by Home Army soldier Jadwiga Majchrzycka and provide key evidence of the Soviet Union’s massacre of Polish officers at Katyń in 1940. Mateusz Marek/PAP/Archiwum Akt Nowych

The yellowing papers known as the Majchrzycka archive were secretly copied by Home Army soldier Jadwiga Majchrzycka and provide key evidence of the Soviet Union’s massacre of Polish officers at Katyń in 1940.

PM expresses sympathy to Greece after railway disaster

Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, has expressed his condolences to the victims of Tuesday's train crash in southern Greece.

Polish Army medics already in Turkey to help earthquake victims

A team of Polish Army doctors, nurses and paramedics has already arrived in Turkey to help treat victims of the earthquake that devastated the south-eastern part of the country and northern Syria on Monday.

Poland remembers Holocaust victims

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have gathered to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War Two.

Opposition to probe why teenage rape victim was refused abortion

MPs from Poland's main opposition grouping, Civic Coalition, (KO) want to know which hospitals refused an abortion to an underage girl with intellectual disabilities who became pregnant as a result of rape.

Poland marks 41st anniversary of martial law

Ceremonies took place in Poland on Tuesday to mark the 41st anniversary of the imposition of martial law by the country's then communist government.

Cycle path outside Russian Embassy in Warsaw named ‘Avenue of the Victims of Russian Aggression’

The naming is a response by Warsaw councillors to Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine and their desire to commemorate the victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

State funerals held for two men killed in blast near Ukrainian border

Two Polish men killed by a missile that hit a southeastern Polish village were buried in a state ceremony over the weekend.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

PM sends Seoul condolences over Halloween crush deaths

Poland's prime minister has said he sent "deepest sympathies" to South Korea after a crush at a Halloween event in the capital killed more than 100 people on Saturday.

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