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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Stanislaw Waszak

Masonic collars are seen next to book shelves at the Poznan University Library, housing a historic archive of Freemasonry in Europe amassed by the Nazis, in Poznan, western Poland on December 22, 2021. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
January 9, 2022, 1:41 pm
Masonic archive amassed by Nazis still has secrets to reveal, curators say
Polish university library has one-third of vast collection ordered gathered by SS chief Heinrich Himmler during crackdown on organization seen as elitist and intellectual
By Stanislaw Waszak
Old train tracks leading past a former canteen building of SS guards at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 9, 2021 (BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP)
April 10, 2021, 4:55 pm
To highlight banality of evil, group seeks to restore SS canteen at Auschwitz
After long days of killing, Nazi officers would head to the dining room near the camp to grab a bite or have a drink
By Stanislaw Waszak
A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, 1943. (AP Photo)
February 7, 2021, 6:02 am
Holocaust historians face verdict in Poland defamation trial
Researchers co-edited a book that documented cases of complicity of Catholic Poles in the genocide of Jews during WWII; trial could determine future of research
By Stanislaw Waszak
Three Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers in 1942. (Wikipedia/Royal Air Force official photographer/Public Domain)
October 12, 2020, 8:34 am
Polish divers face delicate mission to defuse British WWII ‘earthquake bomb’
Most nearby residents evacuated for 5-day operation that will attempt to slowly burn 19-foot bomb’s explosive charge without detonating, but some refuse to go due to pandemic
By Stanislaw Waszak
Incumbent President Andrzej Duda, left, and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda wave to supporters in Pultusk, Poland, July 12, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 13, 2020, 12:44 pm
Duda: A Polish president loyal to ruling populists
Second term for the 48-year-old improves the governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party’s chances of moving ahead with its agenda
By Stanislaw Waszak and Anna Maria Jakubek
Supporters attend a campaign meeting of Polish President and candidate to his reelection for his Law and Justice (PiS) party Andrzej Duda in Plonsk, central Poland on June 16, 2020. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP)
June 17, 2020, 9:51 pm
Polish right targets Jewish claims, LGBT in election fight
President Duda has equated ‘LGBT ideology’ with communism, while public television has attacked his main rival for being open to discussing Holocaust compensation
By Stanislaw Waszak
In this file photo taken on September 6, 1939, Germans tanks cross a river into Polish territory. Nazi forces invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Berlin two days later. Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under a secret pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later. (AFP)
August 28, 2019, 6:31 pm
Feeling its WWII wounds, Poland seeks German reparations 80 years on
There are living Poles ‘who experienced the same suffering as the Jewish nation,’ contends right-wing lawmaker as Warsaw pushes for victimhood recognition
By Stanislaw Waszak and Mathieu FOULKES
Picture taken on May 5, 2016, shows the mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz giving a speech during a commemorative ceremony at the St Petri Dom cathedral in Bremen, northwestern Germany. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa/AFP)
January 14, 2019, 6:23 pm
Polish mayor dies of stab wounds after attack
Killer, who police say wore press badge, burst onto podium at Gdansk charity event and launched himself at Pawel Adamowicz, who was known for opposition to far-right
By Stanislaw Waszak
Mateusz Morawiecki (R), newly designated as Poland's prime minister, shakes hands with the leader of the PiS (Law and Justice) party Jaroslaw Kaczynski at the presidential palace in Warsaw on December 8, 2017.(AFP Photo/ Janek Skarzynski)
May 20, 2018, 12:55 am
With WWII scars still raw, Poland tries to ‘balance’ its history
Since rise to power, right-wing Law and Justice party has spared no time spreading its version of the past and multiplying initiatives glorifying Polish heroism on the battlefield
By Stanislaw Waszak
A Russian T-34 tank from WWII is pictured at the Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen (Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen), also called Ostwall (East Wall) fortification, the former Nazi German defence line near the city of Miedzyrzecz in western Poland, on March 13, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
August 31, 2014, 3:10 am
Poland on edge 75 years after Hitler and Stalin carved it up
Memories of World War II have been bubbling to the surface since Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March
By Stanislaw Waszak
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