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Russia to facilitate Polish commemorations of Katyn massacre

Monday, January 25th, 2010
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Katyn massacre - © RIA Novosti

Reported by RIA NOVOSTI. The painful memories of the massacre of Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet Union may be finally be nearing a time when there is reconciliation between the one time Alllies of World War II . “Russia is ready to help Poland organize events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet Union, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

Lavrov said Polish colleagues have informed Moscow of their plans for this year’s commemoration of the 1940 execution of several thousand of Polish POWs, mainly officers and soldiers, in Katyn, western Russia, which has remained a sensitive issue in ties between Poland and Russia.”

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Germans and Poles come together over WWII mass grave

Monday, August 10th, 2009

An undated reproduction of a 1945 phoAn undated reproduction of a pre 1939 post card showing the town of Malbork. Remains of over 2,100 people including women and children believed to be German civilians buried at the end of World War II, were found in Malbork. (AP Photo) (AP)

An undated reproduction of a pre 1939 post card showing the town of Malbork. Remains of over 2,100 people including women and children believed to be German civilians buried at the end of World War II, were found in Malbork. (AP Photo) (AP)

MALBORK, Poland — Germans and Poles held a ceremony on Friday 7th August 2009 to rebury remains found in a mass grave in the town of Malbrok.

“uncertainties about who the dead were and who killed them may never be resolved. All that authorities can say with some assuredness is that they were probably German civilians who died in the ferocious final months of the war,”

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Poland marks 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Mieczyslaw Jedruszczakis in front the wall that was used to pen in hundreds of thousands of Jews in central Warsaw From the AFP – WARSAW (AFP) — Poland was Tuesday commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, an ill-fated Jewish revolt against the occupying Nazi Germans which marked a symbolic stand against the Holocaust.

Ceremonies were to begin at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) with the lighting of candles at the site of the notorious “Umschlagplatz”, from where the Nazis sent more than 300,000 Jews by train to the Treblinka death camp, 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the northeast.

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