Museum opens to commemorate slain Polish pro-Solidarity priest
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WARSAW, Poland A museum has opened in Poland to honor the victim of one of the country's most notorious murders.
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An exhibit devoted to the suffering of millions of Germans expelled from Poland and other countries at the end of World War II has touched a raw nerve with Poles.
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Polka was at the heart of the 39th Annual Polish-American Festival Sunday on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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The portrait of Ken Bigley, who was murdered in Iraq October 7, stands in front of the congregation during a service at Liverpool&#39;s Roman Catholic Cathedral on October 10.
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Financial problems are threatening the completion of a Warsaw church meant to commemorate the late Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism.
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HISTORY REVISITED: Poles getting their first look at secret police files from the communist era are shocked to see a famous Solidarity activist among the alleged informers.
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Jewish leaders are to join Polish dignitaries for the start of work on a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
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Ukraine reburied nearly 2,000 victims of Stalinist repression, paying its respects to those gunned down by the Soviet secret police before World War II and dumped into a mass grave, organizers said Sunday.
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An art exhibition belonging to the wealthy grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist has opened amid controversy in Germany.
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WARSAW -- Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police, authorities said yesterday. Leon Kieres, the head of Poland's National Remembrance Institute, told a news conference that the investigation by 16 of his specialized prosecutors will attempt to add ...
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Mourners packed Croydon parish church in south London for a private family service for student Meredith Kercher who was murdered in Perugia
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"Let remembrance of this serve as a shield that will protect us and generations to come against resentment, hate, aggression, racism and anti-Semitism"  In a ceremony near the rubble of the gas chambers, a representative of Polish President Lech Kaczynski said the world should remember those who saved the lives of others during the six years of World War II, ... via Ynetnews
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Pope John Paul II ( bio - news ) today paid homage to Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek of Minsk, Belarus, for his courageous witness to the faith during years of Stalinist persecution.
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Those who incite hatred and mass murder are not always extremists but men of culture, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II Holocaust.
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Belarus' authoritarian president opened a memorial to the founder of the Soviet secret police Thursday, praising "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky as the sort of man Belarus could use today.
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Poles lit candles and laid flowers Tuesday at the grave of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, abducted and killed by the communist secret police 20 years ago in a murder described in parliament as "one of the last acts of terror" by the former regime.