“We reject attempts to distort history and denigrate the names of serious scholars. Ideologically driven attacks on Prof. Engelking are in fact attacks on all open-minded people who seek an explanation of how the Holocaust could have happened in the first place, in order to explore the painful aspects of human history as much as possible in balanced way” – wrote the head of the Yad Vashem Institute, Prof. Dan Michman, quoted by numerous media in Poland. Did he not know how the Holocaust could have happened? Maybe he would ask the Germans about it? … Kontynuuj czytanie…How could the Holocaust have happened? Let Prof. Michman ask in Berlin

In the EU, there is a campaign against the Polish model of forest management and against Polish foresters. “This is a conscious action” – says the starost of Radom Walemar Trelka in an interview with AWPE. … Kontynuuj czytanie…INTERVIEW. The campaign against Polish foresters and forest management. Starosta of Radom: Engineering over people’s consciousness continues

“It’s impossible to agree with Prof. Engelking that “Poles have failed”. The above opinion contradicts the results of research conducted on the phenomenon of aid” – dr. Tomasz Domański, historian from Institute of National Rememberance told AWPE. … Kontynuuj czytanie…INTERVIEW. Dr. Domański: The Holocaust was a state undertaking of the German Reich, and the Republic of Poland, through its government and underground, was on the side of the persecuted Jews

On April 24, at the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, a new exhibition about the Wola Massacre was officially opened. “Das Massaker von Wola in Warschau, August 5, 1944. Ein unbestraftes Kriegsverbrechen”. The exhibition in German explains, among other things, why the perpetrators of this monstrous crime against the Polish population have never been punished. … Kontynuuj czytanie…The perpetrators of the Wola Massacre have never been punished! An exhibition about unaccounted for German crimes

The District Council in Radom, in a specially issued resolution, expressed its opposition to the attempt to transfer the field of forestry from the competence of the Member States to the competence shared with the European Union. … Kontynuuj czytanie…The Radom district stands by the Polish government in defense of forests!

At the Antokol cemetery in Vilnius, a group of Poles is successively tidying up the neglected and forgotten quarters of the Regiment of the 4th Zaniemen Uhlans. Polish youth also participate in the work. According to Andrzej Rosiński from the Facebook group “Poles in Vilnius”, a visit of specialists from the Institute of National Remembrance with equipment to search for burial places is planned for this year, as there are serious suspicions that there are definitely more graves than those on which tombstones have been placed. … Kontynuuj czytanie…Poles from Vilnius tidy up the cemetery of the heroes of the Polish-Bolshevik war

“German lawyers write that the case is closed, even if not by Bierut’s statement, then by the issue of limitation, not taking into account that acts of international law that are considered absolutely invalid do not apply the term statute of limitations and these issues do not expire” – said lawyer, Beata Komarnicka-Nowak in the interview for AWPE. … Kontynuuj czytanie…INTERVIEW. Was the German legal opinion on reparations for Poland written for a specific thesis? Attorney Komarnicka-Nowak: Yes. Exactly

To combat climate change and biodiversity loss, the EP passed a law requiring companies to ensure that products sold in the EU have not led to deforestation and forest degradation. The problem is that Parliament has also provided a broader definition of forest degradation, which includes the conversion of primary or naturally regenerating forests to plantation forests or other woodland. This means that wood obtained from Polish forests will not meet EU standards, because forest management consisting in felling and planting is treated as degradation in the light of this document. … Kontynuuj czytanie…Under the guise of environmental protection, the EP is attacking the Polish wood industry and Polish forests

“Poland paid ransom under the guise of obtaining reparations” – said prof. Bogdan Musiał during the Congress of National Remembrance organized in Warsaw by the Institute of National Remembrance. At the same time, he pointed out that Poland had no agreement with Germany regarding reparations, and that the only agreement to waive reparations was concluded between Germany and the USSR and Poland was not a party to it. … Kontynuuj czytanie…Poland was not a party to the agreement between Germany and the USSR. “It paid ransom under the guise of obtaining reparations”

Words and only words – this is how the speech delivered by the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising can be summed up in a nutshell. For the crimes committed in occupied Poland, the Germans have not yet been held accountable, and yet the victims, apart from Polish Jews, were mainly Poles. … Kontynuuj czytanie…I will not believe in the sincerity of German expiations until the Germans make amends for their crimes