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WWII medical equipment and clothing found at German POW camp where over 40,000 Allied prisoners died

Included in the find at the Lamsdorf POW camp now in Łambinowice were doctor's needles, a fragment of a razor, as well as underwear and uniform buttons, metal utensils, and cast-iron elements of heating stoves. Daniel Frymark from the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War/CC BY-SA 4.0/iwm.org.uk

Included in the find at the Lamsdorf POW camp now in Łambinowice were doctor's needles, a fragment of a razor, as well as underwear and uniform buttons, metal utensils, and cast-iron elements of heating stoves.

Surviving Warsaw Uprising insurgents honoured in series of moving posters by contemporary artist Wojciech Korkuć

United by the slogan ‘Honour and Glory to the Heroes’ the series is divided into two types of posters - one depicting colourised photos showing scenes from 78 years ago, while the second group are portraits of living insurgents holding their own wartime photographs.

Son of POW on quest to find 'lost rings of Auschwitz'

While a prisoner at a POW camp known as E715  in what was then the town of Auschwitz , British prisoner James Archer became friends with ‘five tough Polish guys’ and a Jewish engraver inmate who made the gang six identical rings with their initials. Now Archer’s 74-year-old son is trying to track down the fate of the rings and their owners.

‘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.

Hundreds of death camp victims’ personal belongings handed over on anniversary of International Holocaust Day

At today’s handover at the Treblinka death camp memorial museum, IPN chief Dr Karol Nawrocki said that the objects “are not just evidence of the crimes committed by the Germans but also evidence of victory over amnesia.”

Tarnów woman dubbed ‘Guardian Angel of Auschwitz’ to be made saint for helping death camp inmates

Deported to the camp on 27 April 1942, Stefania Łącka “reached the peaks of heroism" trying to support and save others from death.

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.

Lublin castle massacre saw nearly 300 prisoners exterminated by Gestapo as Hitler’s forces prepared to flee the city

Begun at around 9am on the 22nd of July, the executions carried out by a special death commando unit saw prisoners shot dead in their individual cells before being herded together and killed en-masse. Others were gunned down in the castle’s corridors and courtyard.

Woman, 96, to stand trial for allegedly helping in WWII massacre

Irmgard Dirksen who lives in a nursing home in Pinneberg in the Schleswig Holstein region, was a teenager when she worked at the Stutthof concentration camp where over 11,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the SS.

Ex-Auschwitz prisoner cant' use Polish court over 'Polish camp' slur

A former Auschwitz prisoner cannot seek justice in a Polish court over the use of the term 'Polish camp' by German media, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled on Thursday.

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