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Incredible forgotten photos reveal true horror of Red Army’s destruction of Gdańsk, but also its subsequent rebirth

By the time Stalin’s marauding units had been reigned in, it is said that only 38 houses in the whole of the city centre remained standing. Kazimierz Lelewicz/ Museum of Gdańsk

Captured by Kazimierz Lelewicz, a prolific photographer who between 1945 and 1948 took hundreds of images documenting the death and subsequent resurrection of the city, 75 years on, his photographs are a poignant testament to both the realities of war and the steadfast determination to rebuild anew.

Harrowing documents of Jews seeking passports to flee Hitler’s death camps handed over to Auschwitz Museum

The unique collection sent to WWII Polish diplomats known as the Ładoś Group who tried to save the Jews from being murdered, was acquired from a private owner in Israel thanks to the efforts of the Polish Embassy in Bern and Markus Blechner, a Polish honorary consul in Zurich.

Photographer lovingly restores photos of 1930s Warsaw and the results are stunning

Taking just over two days to complete, photographer Mariusz Zając’s labour of love shows the capital in its full, majestic glory - before the Second World War left it in ruins.

Warsaw Uprising papers saved from skip

We go on the trail of a number of important Uprising documents found in a Warsaw rubbish skip…

Thousands of Warsaw Uprising documents rescued from RUBBISH SKIP after being thrown away by mistake

Dr Tadeusz Krawczak from the Central Archives of Modern Records, where the documents and books are being kept, said that the materials are of huge historical value.

Unseen pics of Sobibór death camp shed ghastly light on Nazi horror facility

The pictures provide invaluable evidence on life in a camp that went largely un-photographed.

Harrowing newly-colourised photos show Auschwitz as its never been seen before in powerful new documentary

Appearing in a new two-part documentary to be screened on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the extermination camp’s liberation, Auschwitz Untold in Colour aims to bring the horrors of the Holocaust to contemporary audiences “so that we never ever forget the atrocities of the past.”

Barnstorming: the artist who brings the past back to life on the side of barns in stunning murals

Arkadiusz Andrejkow pays homage to the people who once worked the land in a series of breath-taking paintings on the side of old farm buildings.

Pick-up artist: the man who knows all about the art of picking mushrooms

TFN talks with Marek Snowarski, the creator of a leading website on picking mushrooms, and finds out just what draws him to the forests.

I spy: new high-resolution map reveals Warsaw in all its glory and detail

The online map allows people to view an object such as a house from different angles, giving people an all-round view.

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