Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki equated "Jewish perpetrators" with Polish and others, drawing immediate criticism from Israel's prime minister who called Morawiecki's words "outrageous."
Adam Sobolewski is the drummer for Polish punk band Hańba! The band sets music to lyrics by anti-fascist poets of the 1920s and '30s. The content is eerily prophetic. For example, there's a tune about radio-controlled empty planes.
Poland's media regulator hit TVN24, a private, US-owned news station, with a $400,000 fine Monday over its coverage of an anti-government protest last year.
Andrej Babis and his party are winning the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections this weekend. Add him to the current president, and that would mean not one, but two Donald Trump admirers governing a liberal democracy in the EU.
Reciting "Rosary to the Borders," they called to be protected from the dangers facing them. The episcopate insisted that it was a purely religious initiative.
A campaign that Western military are linking to Russian hackers has targeted the contingent of 4,000 NATO troops deployed to Poland and the Baltic states this year, to protect the alliance’s European border with Russia.
In 1944 Henryk Ross buried his negatives. He was the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland. The ghetto was being liquidated, and Ross was unsure if he would survive to retrieve his work. He did.
This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."
Reciting "Rosary to the Borders," they called to be protected from the dangers facing them. The episcopate insisted that it was a purely religious initiative.
NATO says a Russian invasion of Ukraine is "highly probable." The Ukrainian government says a large convoy of humanitarian aid coming from Russia is just a "Trojan horse." If the humanitarian crisis is indeed a pretext for an invasion, it certainly wouldn't be Moscow's first time.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki equated "Jewish perpetrators" with Polish and others, drawing immediate criticism from Israel's prime minister who called Morawiecki's words "outrageous."
The Jewish residents of the Polish village of Jedwabne were killed July 10, 1941. For years the village attributed the massacre to German soldiers. In 2000, historian Jan Gross wrote a book that told a different story, that the Jews were killed by their Polish neighbors. The book caused an uproar in Poland and the story of Jedwabne continues to reverberate in Poland today.
In Poland, a recently opened WWII museum was embroiled in a standoff with its own government over the correct version of history. And the nationalist government has won.
Famed Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci detailed a design for a new instrument in his Codex Altanticus. But it never moved beyond his sketchbook. Now, more than 500 years later Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki has built and played the inventor's viola organista.
When the Nazis wiped out Jewish life and culture during World War II, it was hard to imagine it would ever come back in Poland. But it is starting to return. Though it's not Jewish people who are leading the way.
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Arts
Unearthing photos and memories of life in the Lodz ghetto
PRI's The World
March 22, 2017
In 1944 Henryk Ross buried his negatives. He was the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland. The ghetto was being liquidated, and Ross was unsure if he would survive to retrieve his work. He did.
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Global Politics
Policing the language of the Holocaust in Poland
PRI's The World
August 18, 2016
This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."
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Conflict
Polish Catholics come together at the country's borders, praying to 'save Poland'
Agence France-Presse
October 07, 2017
Reciting "Rosary to the Borders," they called to be protected from the dangers facing them. The episcopate insisted that it was a purely religious initiative.
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Conflict
Moscow has a long history of making interesting excuses for its military interventions
PRI's The World
August 12, 2014
NATO says a Russian invasion of Ukraine is "highly probable." The Ukrainian government says a large convoy of humanitarian aid coming from Russia is just a "Trojan horse." If the humanitarian crisis is indeed a pretext for an invasion, it certainly wouldn't be Moscow's first time.
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Conflict
Poland's government insists it wasn't denying the Holocaust when it blamed Jews, in part, for World War II
Reuters
February 18, 2018
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki equated "Jewish perpetrators" with Polish and others, drawing immediate criticism from Israel's prime minister who called Morawiecki's words "outrageous."
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Culture
Photos: A Polish village still struggles with its history. In World War II, people killed their Jewish neighbors
PRI's The World
July 13, 2017
The Jewish residents of the Polish village of Jedwabne were killed July 10, 1941. For years the village attributed the massacre to German soldiers. In 2000, historian Jan Gross wrote a book that told a different story, that the Jews were killed by their Polish neighbors. The book caused an uproar in Poland and the story of Jedwabne continues to reverberate in Poland today.
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Culture
Poland’s right-wing government thinks this WWII museum isn’t ‘glorious’ enough
PRI's The World
February 23, 2017
Updated
In Poland, a recently opened WWII museum was embroiled in a standoff with its own government over the correct version of history. And the nationalist government has won.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Leonardo Da Vinci imagined this instrument, but it never became real until now
PRI's The World
November 19, 2013
Famed Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci detailed a design for a new instrument in his Codex Altanticus. But it never moved beyond his sketchbook. Now, more than 500 years later Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki has built and played the inventor's viola organista.
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Arts, Culture & Media
This Polish grad student wants to help bring Yiddish back to life in Poland
PRI's The World
March 24, 2014
When the Nazis wiped out Jewish life and culture during World War II, it was hard to imagine it would ever come back in Poland. But it is starting to return. Though it's not Jewish people who are leading the way.
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Culture
A synagogue is born in a little Polish town, but no Jews are left
GlobalPost
May 25, 2016
A non-Jewish Polish retiree had a dream to rebuild his hometown like it was before the Nazis wiped out all the wooden temples and the Jews there.