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Symbolizing rebirth and new beginnings, daffodils have become synonymous with the beginning of spring. But in Poland, they have yet another meaning - the commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The yellowing papers known as the Majchrzycka archive were secretly copied by Home Army soldier Jadwiga Majchrzycka and provide key evidence of the Soviet Union’s massacre of Polish officers at Katyń in 1940.
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has compared some of the crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine to the mass murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD during World War Two.
Titled the ‘Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy’, and available for free download in pdf format, the 1,300 page tome is the first ever English-language record to specifically document the heroic part the church played in saving Jews.
The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Using the social media platform to teach young people who don’t want to read books, Tova Friedman said: “Here they are, listening.”
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, came to a small village in the south-east of the country on Friday to honour a Polish family that was executed for sheltering Jews during World War Two.
Aid given by Poles to Jews persecuted by German Holocaust perpetrators is an important part of our historical memory, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, wrote to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance About Poles Who Rescued Jews Under the German Occupation (March 24).
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