WWII

Ghetto Uprising a struggle against all odds says Israeli president

Isaac Herzog said the Jewish insurgents had no chance of winning against much stronger Nazi forces, but stressed that given the Germans' plans to exterminate them, death in battle allowed them to "preserve their moral core, the sense of mutual responsibility, and faith in humanity." Leszek Szymański/PAP

The fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fought against all odds and although only a few survived it was a victory for the human spirit, the Israeli president said on Wednesday in the Polish capital at commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the 1943 insurgency.

Yellow flowers of spring - and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Symbolizing rebirth and new beginnings, daffodils have become synonymous with the beginning of spring. But in Poland, they have yet another meaning - the commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Ten thousand Jews and Poles take part in March of the Living

Around 10,000 Jews and Poles, including Holocaust survivors, took part in the annual March of the Living in southern Poland on Tuesday to pay tribute to Holocaust victims.

Polish PM honours Jews killed in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has paid tribute to the thousands upon thousands of Warsaw Ghetto Jews killed by Nazi Germans during World War Two.

We are custodians of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memory says Polish official

"We remember the past and draw on historical experience to build a better future," the Polish deputy prime minister and culture minister has stated, referring to the forthcoming 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

War reparations for Poland not a matter of if but when says PAP CEO

The head of the Polish Press Agency, Wojciech Surmacz, has said the discussion about reparations for German World War Two crimes and the destruction of Poland should not be about whether the country is entitled to them but why they have not yet been paid out.

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.

Duda draws parallels with Russian war crimes against Poles and Ukrainians

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has compared some of the crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine to the mass murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD during World War Two.

Polish WWII memorial desecrated in Gardelegen, Germany

Twenty-four graves in the Gardelegen cemetery, northern Germany, where Poles burned alive by the Germans in 1945 are buried, have been desecrated, the Gardelegen Memorial has reported.

Israeli and German presidents to attend Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorations

The presidents of Israel and Germany will visit Warsaw to take part along with the Polish head of state in commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Polish President's Office announced on Thursday.

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