Polish WW2 'Courier from Warsaw' Dies, Aged 91
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's government-in-exile, died in Warsaw late on Thursday.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88.
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RADOM, Poland  - Two pilots were killed performing aerial acrobatics at an air show in Poland on Saturday when their aircraft collided head-on in front of thousands of spectators.
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Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for 2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
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Two Polish soldiers were killed and five  injured in a road accident in Hilla after their patrol was  fired on near their Babylon base in southern Iraq, Polish news  agency PAP said on Thursday, citing a military spokesman.
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Poland's Navy said Thursday that it has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin &#151; a find that promises to shed light on a 59-year-old mystery surrounding the ship's fate.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and the director of Radio Free Europe's Polish service during the Cold War, has died, Polish officials said Friday. He was 91.
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A Polish woman who for 60 years had been holding onto the diary of a young Jewish girl killed by the Nazis in 1943, presented the journal to Israel's Holocaust memorial on Monday.
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NWS Baranski, Tibor FP Vail Daily File Photo Tibor Baranski, 81, is credited with saving several thousand Jews during the Holocaust through his work with the Papal embassy in Budapest.
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski - a wartime Polish underground courier and post-war radio broadcaster dies aged 91.
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Sir William Deakin, a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 91, his family said.
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An 80-year-old veteran of World War II was killed Thursday morning when a van backed over him as he prepared to march in a Veterans Day parade.
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Poland's parliament declared a 97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War Two.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukrainian Transport Minister  Heorhiy Kyrpa was found dead Monday at his home outside Kiev, a  government source said.
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Poland and Germany must rely on quiet diplomacy to close the book on the divisive issue of World War Two compensation, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said on Saturday.
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Veteran diplomat Yuli Vorontsov, who served the Soviet Union and Russia as ambassador to Afghanistan and the United States in a career spanning the Cold War and the Gulf War, has died at age 78, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.