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Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99

Michael Smuss, who fought Nazi soldiers with Molotov cocktails during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of World War II and became a painter after the war to process his trauma, has died.

Białystok names square after man who saved Jews in WWII

“We are honouring an ordinary, simple man who demonstrated extraordinary heroism,” Białystok Mayor Tadeusz Truskolaski said. “His deed was like a beam of light in the dark—a sign of hope that evil can be defeated.”

Victims of Łódź Ghetto honoured on 81st anniversary

The Mayor of Łódź joined dignitaries and a Holocaust survivor in a march to honour victims of the city’s infamous former ghetto.

Polish prosecutors probe Auschwitz denial by far-right MEP

According to the prosecutor’s office, Braun denied — “in public and contrary to established facts” — the genocide the Nazis carried out at Auschwitz between 1941 and 1944, in particular the murder of Jews and other victims using gas chambers.

Polish foreign minister warns against rising racism and antisemitism

Radosław Sikorski criticised far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun, who has questioned the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

Poland marks 85th anniversary of first deportation to Auschwitz

June 14, 1940, when the first transport of 728 Poles arrived from a prison in the city of Tarnów, is widely considered the date Auschwitz began operating.
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