The 27th of January 2015 is a very special day. On this date we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The memory of the whole world will focus on the tragedy of the Shoah and the cruel system of terror created by Germans in occupied Europe.
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“Peace is a very fragile construct and you can never assume that any acquis communautaire is truly obtained for good. It may be clearly observed in at least several regions of the world, which makes it even more alarming. The future of our civilisation is in our own hands and we must take responsibility for the shape of that future…”
On January 27, 2015 we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi German concentraction and extermination camp Auschwitz.
November 2, 2014 at 5 p.m. / Dom Polski, 379 Waverley Street, Ottawa
According to the legend, Jews fleeing persecution in the Middle Ages came east. When they arrived in a forest, they heard the word ‘Polin’, which sounded like “Rest here” in Hebrew. They knew then that this was the place to settle. Polin is the Hebrew word for Poland and the inspiration for the name of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
In series of talks with World War II heroes, Gregory Fryc interviews Professor Julian E. Kulski.
Students of Tokyo universities, university teachers, journalists and historians have attended a symposium devoted to Jan Karski and the Holocaust. The event was held by the Polish Institute in Tokyo under the auspices of the Polish Embassy in Japan’s capital.
A ceremony commemorating Polish soldiers who had died in Belgium during the Second World War took place at a cemetery in Lommel on 28 September 2014. The event was part of celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Flanders.
70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising is celebrated in Poland on 1st of August.
Polish, French, British, and US intelligence servicemen celebrated in Warsaw the 75th anniversary of the hand over to the Allies by the Polish intelligence service of a code that broke Enigma, the German encoding machine. The commemoration ceremony was also attended by Home Army veterans and the relatives of persons who helped decode Enigma.