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Senate adopts resolution branding Russia a terrorist regime

All senators present in the upper house voted in favour of the resolution, in which the Senate stated that, "on February 24, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation unleashed a beastly war on Ukraine." Tomasz Gzell/PAP

Poland's Senate adopted a resolution on Wednesday declaring the Russian Federation a terrorist regime and calling on the international community to support the International Criminal Court in investigating people responsible for war crimes in Ukraine.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

The Witch of Łódź: Harrowing new biography reveals horrifying details of sadistic guard at ‘little Auschwitz’ concentration camp for children

In the first biography ever to be written about Eugenia Pol, who went under the name Genowefa Pohl during the war, author Błażej Torański spent several years in the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Łódź analysing thousands of pages of trial files, testimonies and photographs.

Faces of Evil: Hitler’s death camp women revealed in new online project

Entitled ‘Women working for the SS’ the project tells the shocking story of how the 200-plus women were able to take part in the largest recorded mass murder in history during the day and then return home, relax and have fun with SS men after work.

House of horror where secret police tortured hundreds to become museum in memory of victims

The building in the centre of Augustów in north-east Poland was used by the NKVD and the Communist secret police to hold and interrogate victims of the 1945 Augustów Roundups, known as the little Katyń.

Investigators uncover remains of teenagers murdered in Stalinist horror jail

WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES: The remains of three bodies belonging to victims judged to be around 19-20 years old were found by the Search and Identification Bureau of the Institute of National Remembrance.

Poland’s most outstanding WWII flying ace sentenced to death by Stalinist kangaroo court 70 years ago today

Dubbed ‘Flying Death’ by the Germans, Stanisław Skalski saw action in Poland following the outbreak of war, later becoming the first Pole to command an RAF squadron. Miraculously avoiding death twice, after the war it seemed his luck had run out when he was arrested by the secret police on trumped up charges of espionage, tortured for over a year and then sentenced to be executed. But again, he survived.

Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
Life

Lublin chef joins ‘cooking show royalty’ in ultimate challenge for title of Top Chef World All-Star

VIDEO: Gleaning contestants from 16 countries, 32-year-old Sylwia Stachyra faces stiff competition from her fellow professionals, all of which have previously either won or appeared as finalists on national or localised editions of the show.

The first report:

  • Poland's average corporate wage up 13.6 pct y/y in Feb. - stats office
  • EC approves funding for gas transmission pipeline
  • PM says Poland is not understood, discriminated against by EU
  • Poland sees huge increase in small photovoltaic output
  • Security chief says detained spies had not acted for long

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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