Victims

Painstaking research reveals fate of artist known as ‘Portraitist of Auschwitz’

Until now, it was known only that Franciszek Jaźwiecki who captured the broken faces of his fellow inmates through hundreds of harrowing portraits, had been employed in the death camp’s paint shop. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Until now, it was known only that Franciszek Jaźwiecki who captured the broken faces of his fellow inmates through hundreds of harrowing portraits, had been employed in the death camp’s paint shop.

Auschwitz survivors accuse Germany of negligence in pursuing Nazi war criminals

The International Auschwitz Committee, which was formed in 1952, said that the German judiciary had failed to deal with former death camp staff for decades.

Poland marks anniversary of Auschwitz liberation in virtual ceremony

To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz, a virtual ceremony was held due to coronavirus restrictions.

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

PM marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has marked International Holocaust Remembrance day by saying the memory of the Holocaust’s victims is an important part of the Polish identity.

Skeletal remains of men, women and children murdered by Gestapo finally laid to rest

The 75 victims buried today, which include three infants, were discovered during archaeological work carried out earlier this year by a special section of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance.

FM sends sympathy message over victims of earthquake in Turkey, Greece

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on Friday evening extended his sympathy and solidarity to the families of people killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday.

Zombie horror fungus which kills insects and then grows out of their HEADS spotted in local forests

Captured in the Baligród Forest District in the Bieszczady Mountains (south-eastern Poland), the wasp was attacked by the rare fungus known as Ophiocordyceps ditmarii which then buried itself inside the insect’s body before erupting out of its head.

Warsaw to commemorate WWII Katyn massacre victims

The 13th Katyn March of Shadows to honour thousands of Polish POWs and others killed by the Soviet NKVD during World War II will start at 3 pm at the Polish Army Museum and proceed through the streets of central Warsaw.

Poland and Hungary to jointly assist victims of religious persecution

Poland and Hungary have reached an agreement to help persecuted religious groups and to counteract threats to religious freedom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced in a press statement.

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