Sirens wailed across the Polish capital at noon on Tuesday to mark the 79th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Poland's health minister has estimated the cost of providing complete healthcare to one million Ukrainian war refugees at PLN 300 million (EUR 65 mln) per month.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), told the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag that Germany has been far too lenient towards Russia over the past years.
Disguised as an electric stove, the Phillips radio was discovered under a removable floor tile below an old wardrobe at the address used by legendary underground courier Jan Karski.
Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz are not typical men. In 2014, approaching their tenth decade, they took the age-defying decision to set up a Klezmer ensemble so they could “sing for the 6 million who died” and spread a message of peace and love.
Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…
The find has been described as enormously significant as it ‘proves that religious Jews not only resisted the deportations in 1942 but also shows that religious practice among observant Jews continued in the ghetto’, director of the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw said.
Sirens wailed across the Polish capital at noon on Monday to mark the 78th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Having been ignored for decades, the extraordinary stories of the women who fought tooth and nail against their Nazi oppressors are finally receiving the attention they merit.
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.’
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