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Ryszard Gromadzki talks to Father Witold Burda, initiator of the process of beatification and canonization of the Ulma family, a Polish family murdered by the Germans in 1944 for hiding Jews. Interview originally published in Polish in the 7 August 2023…

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Communism like Nazism: Lenin and Stalin should be regarded like Hitler

Partenaire July 28, 2023

Communism has already claimed more than 100 million lives around the world. There are places on earth where people are still losing their lives because of it. And yet in global consciousness it is not presented in a manner as unambiguously pejorative…

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The plan for Slavic extermination: The Germans started it in Poland

Partenaire July 3, 2023

“The extermination plans were appalling. In the first phase of the GPO, the Germans wanted to kill about 100 million people” – says p rof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk, a historian from the Polish Academy of Sciences and an expert in the history of…

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A war crime on culture: How Germans robbed Poland

Partenaire June 26, 2023

“43% of Poland’s historic buildings were destroyed or damaged. In Warsaw, it was as much as 92%. I think that to illustrate the scale of destruction, the example of our capital is the best. Before the war, it had a population of…

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How Poles tried to stop the Holocaust

Partenaire June 1, 2023

Detailed reports from German “death factories” and harrowing witness accounts – Poles tried to convince the Allies to stop the Holocaust but it was all in vain. This article, by Piotr Włoczyk, was published in Polish in the “Do Rzeczy” weekly magazine…

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Imre Reviczky, the Righteous Among the Nations shoveled coal

Partenaire February 17, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 17 February 2022. 65 years ago, on February 16, 1957, Imre Reviczky colonel, former battalion commander and posthumous general and Righteous Among Nations, passed away in Budapest. Streets in Budapest, as well…

Politics

Restitution of property: tempers flare between Israel and Poland

Olivier Bault August 23, 2021

Poland – Accusations of anti-Semitism by Israel’s foreign minister, after the Polish president ratified a law on the restitution of property unlawfully confiscated after World War II, have plunged Warsaw and Tel Aviv into a crisis unprecedented since the fall of communism…

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Auschwitz commemorations in Jerusalem without the President of Poland

The Editorial Board January 25, 2020

By Rafał Ziemkiewicz. Polish President Andrzej Duda announced at the beginning of January that he would not take part in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. The organizers of the commemorations, held on 23…

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JUST Act 447, the American law which could undermine the privileged relationship between Warsaw and Washington

Olivier Bault June 20, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Law and Justice party (PiS) which came to power in Poland with the elections of 2015 has always seemed more attached to transatlantic ties than to further EU integration. At the NATO summit in Warsaw in…

Politics

Under pressure from the USA, Poland steps back on its memorial law

Olivier Bault July 3, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Polish and Israeli Prime Ministers signed a common declaration to end the dispute. The amendments to the Polish memorial law concerning the Shoah and the Nazi crimes committed in Poland at the origin…

Society

Poland and the Jews on the fiftieth anniversary of March 68: the antisemitic campaign of 1968 seen by a Polish Jew witness of the events

Olivier Bault March 18, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The theme of Polish anti-Semitism is back. With the new Polish memorial law, Poland is under attack from all sides, especially from Israel and the United States. After a little calming down, the attacks started again when…

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Two amendments to Polish memory law make waves

Olivier Bault February 3, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Like many countries, Poland has made the denial or minimization of Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, a crime punishable by imprisonment. Two amendments voted by the Diet on January 26 and then by the Senate on January…