It is very good that the efforts of Poles to save Jews during the Holocaust are commemorated, especially since many of these activities are still being discovered, said British historian Roger Moorhouse on the occasion of the Memorial Day of Poles saving Jews under German occupation.more
Maria Barr, a woman from the archival photo of the Institute of National Remembrance, whose identity has been established thanks to the involvement of researchers and history enthusiasts, will be buried in London's Gunnersbury Cemetery.more
A court in Wuppertal announced that the 96-year-old former guard of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, suspected of complicity in the killings in several hundred cases, will avoid trial for health reasons, the AFP agency said.more
The British "Daily Mail" described the story of Aleksander Ładoś, the Polish ambassador in Switzerland during World War II. Ładoś and his associates saved thousands of Jews from death by providing them with false Latin American passports.more
In the main issue of the daily on the Italian public television RAI, an apology was made for using the phrase "Polish death camp" in reference to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The apology was the result of the intervention of the Polish embassy in Rome.more
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (1940-2020) Hillingdon Council worked closely with the Polish Air Force Memorial Committee to create a brand-new permanent display that highlights the vital role of the Polish Air Force during the Second World War.more
The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Italy announced yesterday that it will intervene regarding the use of the term "Polish death camp" in the RAI daily for the Nazi German Auschwitz camp. She recently appealed to the Italian media to be cautious.more
Thanks to the efforts of Tomasz Muskus, a Polish activist and researcher of history, it was possible to find in London the place where the Polish intelligence and counterintelligence office was located during World War II.more
French public radio France Culture has published material which says, inter alia, about the fact that "Poland would like to forbid any invocation of its responsibility for the crimes committed by the Third Reich".more
A district court in Gothenburg in the south of Sweden has cleared two Swedish filmmakers of "grave infringement" of the wreck of the ferry "Estonia" lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The wreckage rests the remains of most of the 852 victims of the vessel sinking in 1994.more
Piers Corbyn has been arrested over leaflets comparing the UK's Covid-19 vaccine rollout to Auschwitz. The 73-year-old brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he voluntarily attended a police station on Wednesday.more
At the age of 97, prof. Zbigniew Siemaszko, soldier of the Anders Army, an outstanding historian, writer and journalist in exile, called the nestor of "Polish" London.more
The British Daily Mail, writing about the discovery of four metal identification plates belonging to children murdered in the German Nazi camp in Sobibor, used a phrase suggesting that the camp belonged to Poland.more
Remains of a large “very well preserved” late 17th century ship have been discovered in the Lisbon riverside area by a team of archaeologists, confirmed the cultural heritage authority to Lusa.more
The figure of Witold Pilecki, who informed about the crimes committed in the German concentration camp Auschwitz, was recalled in a letter published in the Daily Telegraph by the Polish ambassador to London, Arkady Rzegocki.more
Facebook unblocked the promotion of the film about the German children's camp in Łódź and the crimes committed there by the Nazis, incl. thanks to the publicity of the case by the Polish media - informed the director of the Łódź branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, Dariusz Rogut.more
On January 20, the Bellona publishing house published the book "Mein Kampf. Moja walka. Critical edition" by Adolf Hitler, edited and translated by Eugeniusz Caesary Król. The decision to publish a book by the leader of the Third Reich is highly controversial.more
Thousands of victims of persecution under the Third Reich may be entitled to a German pension because they were isolated and detained, even if they did not have to live in formal ghettos such as Warsaw or Łódź.more
Poczta Polska won the first prize in the EUROPA Stamp 2020 philatelic competition, the subject of which was the former postal routes. The winning stamp, designed by Maciej Jędrysiak, shows the most important communication and postal routes functioning in the 16th century.more
