Poland honors Nobel nominee for holocaust heroism
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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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Their 1999 research on an unsung hero who sheltered Jewish children during the Holocaust has become a play that's been performed abroad â and brought recognition to a Polish woman.
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Poland is holding a series of solemn ceremonies and re-enactments marking the 25th anniversary of the deadly nationwide crackdown by communist-era authorities.Comment
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Poland's president made his first visit to Russia on Monday &#151; not for a meeting with top officials but to commemorate Poles killed by the Soviet secret police in World War II, news reports said.
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WARSAW -- Jewish community leaders and Warsaw officials lighted the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital yesterday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland. Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, chanted Hebrew prayers as he and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Andrzej Urbanski were lifted by an industrial crane to the top of ...
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Remembering Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932-2007
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The 2004 Nobel winners for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday.
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Poland plans to bestow its top award on the late US president Ronald Reagan, in a posthumous homage for his role in the collapse of the communist bloc, Polish authorities announced Wednesday.
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An Inuit activist and a 96-year-old Polish woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust are among the 181 nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Oscar-winning  director Roman Polanski will receive a lifetime achievement  honor during the European Film Awards in Warsaw on December 2,  organizers said Tuesday.
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BBC News Online speaks to Holocaust survivors as Poland remembers the terrible fate of the Lodz ghetto.
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Nominations close for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and among the entrants is a 98-year-old Briton who saved 700 Czech-Jewish children from the Nazis.
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Hungarian-born Israeli Avram Hershko, co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize for chemistry, on Friday received one of Hungary's highest distinctions in recognition of his scientific achievements.
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Millions of ordinary Poles offered prayers Wednesday for their country's most famous son, Pope John Paul II, who is hospitalized in Rome.
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"It's closer in many ways to theater than it is to a didactic display based on a collection"  An empty lawn in the heart of what was once the Warsaw Ghetto will soon become a place not only of mourning, but of celebrating the Jewish life that flourished in Poland before it was destroyed in the Holocaust.Jewish leaders and President Lech Kaczynski will break ground Tuesday for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It sits on a highly charged site _ next to the city's monument to the Jews who resisted the Nazis during the 1943 ghetto uprising, and just down the street from the rail siding where many were deported to their deaths. Read more
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Dusted by falling snow and surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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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&#39;s Holocaust  memorial on Monday.