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Jewish valuables hidden from Nazis in 1939 found by builders in wooden box

While digging to insulate the building’s foundations in Łódź, the workers stumbled upon a wooden box filled with over 400 antique objects, including candlesticks, cutlery, glasses, and other utensils. Marian Zubrzycki/PAP

While digging to insulate the building’s foundations in Łódź, the workers stumbled upon a wooden box filled with over 400 antique objects, including candlesticks, cutlery, glasses, and other utensils.

Polish family murdered for helping Jews may be beatified

Pope Francis has recognised the martyrdom of a married couple with seven children who were executed by Nazi Germans for sheltering a Jewish family in their home in Poland during World War Two.

WW2 reparations fundamental for Poland, says dep FM

Germany paying WWII reparations is of fundamental importance and a question of dignity for Poland, a deputy foreign minister told the DPA news agency on Tuesday.

Mass grave of WWII ‘battle-scarred' German soldiers unearthed alongside their meagre belongings

Archaeologists exhuming the grave in the town of Barborów came across bullet-ridden helmets, broken bones, dog tags, coins, Swastika badges, shoes, a whistle and a chain with a lucky horseshoe.

Study into Warsaw Ghetto starvation left the world an unparalleled study of hunger still applied today

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: Initiated by a group of Jewish doctors during WWII to study the physiological and psychological effects of hunger, the report named the Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study was an unprecedented act of heroism, resistance and determination and left the world a study of hunger that had not been possible before nor achieved since.

Israel doesn't want to change formula of Israeli youth trips to Poland

Israel has cancelled Holocaust-education trips this summer, claiming the Polish government is trying to control the Holocaust-studies curriculum taught to Israeli children.

New books reveals incredible story of how da Vinci portrait was gifted to a Polish Princess and hidden from the Nazis by a palace housekeeper

Released tomorrow (May 24), What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth reveals the astonishing history behind one of Poland’s most beloved national treasures and a painting that many rank as better that even Da Vinci’s best-know work the Mona Lisa.

Polish ambassador objects to CNN saying 'Poland’s concentration camps'

Poland's ambassador to the US has protested against the use of the term "Poland’s concentration camps" in a CNN report.

Warsaw cops swoop on auction house to save looted WWII painting

Plundered by Germans at the end of WWII, the painting by Art Nouveau artist Edward Okuń is said to be worth over a million PLN.

Russian troops behaving like Hitler's SS, says Duda as he demands they be brought to justice

At a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart, Polish president  Andrzej Duda said there was a chilling similarity between the atrocities being committed by Putin’s forces and those carried out by the Nazis.

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