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Putin's decision means occupation of Ukraine - Ukrainian ambassador

Russian recognition of the independence of Ukraine's two breakaway regions is a confirmation of the occupation of the country, Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Andrii Deshchytsia has said.

Gamers build SimCity-style Warsaw to show how city might look now if not destroyed by WWII and post-war occupation

VIDEO: Urban planning and city strategy expert Krzysztof Ruciński told TFN: “It is one of the greatest ‘what ifs’. So I thought why not just take some old maps and start to create the city. It started around one year ago and it has grown organically.”

Day of freedom: when Poland regained its independence

Today marks the 103rd anniversary of Poland regaining independence after centuries of foreign rule.

Ruling party MP defends "harsh words" about Brussels

A government MP has defended calling the EU an occupying power, saying that Poles are not “subhuman” and will not agree to being treated worse than other EU nations.

Black Sunday, the largest wave of arrests during Nazi occupation, remembered for first time

Held by the newly-established KL Plaszow Museum, the commemorations will honour the memory of the 6,000 Poles arrested on August 6th, 1944.

Harrowing story of the Warsaw ‘Robinson Crusoes’ who after the Warsaw Uprising, defied the Germans and stayed in the capital

The ‘castaways’ numbered from 500 up to possibly 2,000 people, but only a few hundred made it to the end. To survive, they formed themselves into small groups, pooling skills and dividing tasks. For the months ahead they hunkered in their shelters, each an island in the ocean of ruins.

Extraordinary unseen reconnaissance photos of Warsaw show capital in different stages of WWII occupation

Principally comprised of aerial images taken by Luftwaffe reconnaissance planes throughout the duration of the occupation, the digital undertaking has been described as the largest collection of aerial photographs ever amassed of wartime Warsaw.

Stash of WWII cash worth half a million złoty found hidden in village barn

The banknotes from 1940-1941 were discovered under a thick layer of hay when the barn’s owner was demolishing the farm building.

Fate of people living in Oświęcim, which Nazis renamed Auschwitz, explored in online exhibition

Published by the Auschwitz Museum, the presentation of text, photographs, charts, maps and graphics tells readers about how the Germans set out to murder the town’s Jews, expel the remaining Poles and turn the town into a city built specially for the SS – ‘Musterstadt Auschwitz.

Congressman apologises for "Polish death camp" misnomer

US Congressman Steve Cohen has apologised for recent statements suggesting Polish complicity in the Holocaust, which evoked hefty protests from the Polish ambassador in the US, the Polish-American Kosciuszko Foundation and the Warsaw-based Institute for National Remembrance (IPN).

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Poznań’s 19th century Pl. Kolegiacki returned to its former glory as part of movement to reclaim community spaces from ‘carpark hell’

Featuring fountains, greenery, information boards and outbreaks of modern art, the initiative has been hailed by Poznań mayor Jacek Jaśkowiak as a project for the masses, saying: “I am glad that we have managed to revitalize the square while respecting the historic character of this space,”

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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