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President pays tribute to Polish rescuers of Jews

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President Andrzej Duda has commemorated in a letter Poles those who risked their lives to save Jews in Poland during the Second World War.

Russian troops behaving like Hitler's SS, says Duda as he demands they be brought to justice

At a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart, Polish president  Andrzej Duda said there was a chilling similarity between the atrocities being committed by Putin’s forces and those carried out by the Nazis.

New project aims at breathing new life into histories of WWII underground leaders

VIDEO: Called Voices of the Home Army, the animation uses actors and modern animation techniques to create a comic-book style that breathes life into the commanders of the largest underground army in World War Two.

PM says it is Poland's duty to claim damages for "German crimes" of WWII

The Polish prime minister has said that it is the country’s duty to claim losses for the "monstrous German crimes" and "enormous losses" suffered by Poland during World War II.

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.”

New centre dedicated to Polish Enigma codebreakers opens in Poznań

The main focus of the centre is the story of Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki who influenced the fate of the world by being the first to break the German cipher machine code in 1932.

Over 500 works of art lost during WWII recovered by Poland over six years

Since 2015, Poland has recovered over 500 works of art lost during World War on the territory of today's Poland, a Culture and National Heritage Museum official has stated.

“The Olkusz man that won the war”: Antoni Kocjan remembered on anniversary of execution

Killed on this day in 1944, Kocjan played a vital role in demystifying Nazi wonder weapons and is credited with saving London from further destruction.

Germans owe Poland for WW2, former Israeli envoy says

Germany owes Poland compensation for World War Two, because the Germans destroyed Poland during the war, Shevah Weiss, a former Israeli ambassador in Poland and former head of the Israeli Knesset, told the "Rzeczpospolita" daily in a Tuesday interview.

Looted WWII masterpiece goes back on display after being found in shopping centre car park

Unveiled on Tuesday in the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in the Kraków’s Cloth Hall, Maksymilian Gierymski's 1872 landscape Winter in a Small Town is considered one of the most important pieces of Polish art.

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Art & Culture | History

Stunning photos of Gdańsk reveal fascinating glimpse into long-forgotten world

Titled ‘Images of Gdańsk on Glass Plate Negatives from the Collections of Stadtmuseum Danzig’, the hefty bi-lingual tome presents nearly 200 images taken from the National Museum of Gdańsk’s collection of almost 2,700 glass plates.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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