updated Wed. September 11, 2024
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Oxford Mail
April 25, 2018
One of the main attractions for city officials who began scouring Poland for a new twin city last year was that Wroclaw is an established university town. ... Part of the city's determination to go its own way may come from the fact that it wasn't even part of Poland until the end of the Second World War when itÃâà...
Classic FM
April 25, 2018
When Germany invaded Poland in World War II, things were looking bleak for the Polish people. But Chopin's Polonaise in A major, composed at the outset of the war, is a bombastic, chord-filled, major-key piano piece which is played almost entirely forte. During Poland's invasion, Polksie Radio played theÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
April 25, 2018
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia will send 1,100 teenagers and young adults to the World War II death camp in Poland on April 30 as part of its Eurostars trip, which brings Russian Jews to Western Europe and other parts of the continent, federation President Alexander Boroda told JTA onÃâà...
thenews.pl
April 25, 2018
The monument, which comes in the form of a thought-provoking symbolic design, is due to be officially unveiled in a square in the historic Polish city in early June. The more than nine-metre-tall structure has cost almost PLN 1.5 million (EUR 360,000, USD 440,000) to build, Monika Chylaszek,Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
That was the case with the German refugees displaced from what is now western Poland and the Sudeten regions of Czechoslovakia, who were not left in refugee camps clamoring for a return to their prewar homes but were resettled in Germany. That made it possible for Germany to arrive at peace with itsÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 24, 2018
Top European Union official Donald Tusk said Monday he had no power or role in the preparation of any flights taken by himself or Poland's president when he was prime ... They were travelling to pay homage to thousands of Polish officers killed by Soviet secret security in 1940, during World War II.
Irish Times
April 24, 2018
The abrupt break-up of Europe's land empires and the inability of the successor states to settle territorial disputes with their neighbours peacefully was pivotal in triggering post-war violence. Newly independent Poland, for example, waged six wars against her neighbours between 1918 and 1920 in order toÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 5, 2018
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party (PiS) expressed his anger at Germany's refusal to cave in to the reparation demands. In a scathing attack on Berlin, the politician said it is an absolutely “critical issue” that Poland has not seen a penny out of Germany's coffers since the end of the war.
Express.co.uk
March 27, 2018
The official stance of the Warsaw is that the 1953 agreement was settled between the Soviet puppet Governments of Poland and East Germany and therefore not valid in today's independent Poland. Mr Mularczyk said: “The vast majority of those hurt by the war are dead, and the majority of them neverÃâà...
thenews.pl
March 1, 2018
Poland and Lithuania are in favour of strengthening NATO's eastern flank, the Speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament said on Thursday ... Poland, meanwhile, regained independence on November 11, 1918, the day World War I ended, after 123 years of partition by Russia, Austria and Prussia.
thenews.pl
March 1, 2018
After Poland's official underground army (AK) of World War II disbanded in January 1945 thousands of Poles continued to fight in other formations as the Soviet Red Army extended its grip across the country. A Soviet-backed communist regime was later installed in rigged 1947 elections after the war.
euronews
March 1, 2018
The law, which was passed earlier this month and makes it illegal to accuse Poland of complicity in Nazi crimes committed during the war, has come under fire from several rights groups and foreign governments who say it threatens freedom of speech and legitimate academic research into the role someÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
A Polish law that criminalizes accusing the Polish nation of crimes that were committed by Nazi Germany has taken effect, Thursday March 1, 2019. The law has sparked a crisis with Israel, where officials fear its true aim is to repress research on Poles who killed Jews during World War II, something PolishÃâà...
Emerging Europe
February 9, 2018
Israel, as an enemy, has been chosen perfectly. It is ruled by right-wing populists, so it has been possible to accurately predict the mirror mechanism of sharp reactions. And that is what Jarosław Kaczyński wanted. Nothing consolidates power better than war. A war undermines any internal divisions within aÃâà...
Newsweek
February 1, 2018
Updated | Poland's Senate approved a new law late Wednesday night that makes it illegal to blame Poles for the Holocaust or to call Nazi death camps in Poland “Polish death camps.” People convicted under the new law could face up to three years in jail or be fined. Nazi Germany had six camps inÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
January 30, 2018
Polish state prosecutors have set an ambitious goal for themselves: to find surviving Nazi SS soldiers who committed war crimes at German concentration camps during the Second World War and to bring them to trial. "We finally have to deal comprehensively with the mass murder that was committed inÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 31, 1999
Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto in World War II ... Polish President Andrzej Duda and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said the hundreds of young Jews who took to arms in Warsaw in 1943 against the overwhelming might of the Nazi German army fought forÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
December 31, 1999
On the list of anti-cryptocurrency countries, Poland has never really stuck out. In fact, there has been enough evidence to suggest that the Eastern European country was moving towards embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. However, a recently uncovered smear campaign by the NBP (NationalÃâà...
