Poland

A Holocaust survivor shows the tattoo she received when she arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1943.

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'Tell what happened to us': the last death camp survivors

27 January 2025 by AFP

This 27 January 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In this story, 40 Holocaust survivors, from all parts of the world, speak out and pass on their memories.

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Daffodils to mark 75 years after Warsaw ghetto uprising

19 April 2018 by AFP

Sirens will sound and paper daffodils will fill the streets of the Polish capital on Thursday to mark 75 years since hundreds of young Jews took up arms against Nazi German forces in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The Jewish fighters [...]

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75 years after the Warsaw ghetto's end, the dead live on in memory

18 April 2018 by AFP

At 86 years old and the last remaining member of her family, Krystyna Budnicka has made it her mission to recount how she survived the Warsaw ghetto in order to keep her loved ones' memory alive. "I lost all six brothers, my siste [...]

Week in Review: Amnesia in Poland, violence in Venezuela and the Philippines

12 February 2018 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net

Poland’s adoption of a controversial law on the history of the Holocaust marked the transitional justice week. Once again, a country is trying to impose its vision of history through law and close all debate on its past. The text [...]

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11 February 2018 by AFP

PM calls on Poles to avoid "unnecessary anti-Semitic jokes" Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called on Poles to refrain from making anti-Semitic statements at a time when the country is under fire over a controversial Holocaust law. The new law sets fines or a maximum thr [...]

Opinion

7 February 2018 by Tomasz Lachowski

Poland : "Fighting for historical truth with a penal code is the matter of weak states" Reckoning with past evils never is an easy task. Undoubtedly, fighting for historical truth appears as an inherent right of each and every nation, what corresponds to the freely chosen shape of the politics of memory of a given st [...]

6 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University

Poland tries to rewrite Holocaust history After putting pressure on the judicial system and the media, Poland’s authorities are now clamping down on how the country’s Second World War history is told. This authoritarian trend is worrying the European Union. January 27 mar [...]