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Discovery of 300-million-year-old amphibian could rewrite evolutionary history

Scientists have discovered traces of the tail of a prehistoric amphibian that inhabited Poland, revealing rows of scales similar to those of reptiles.

Photo: PAP/Piotr Nowak

Remembering the Wola Massacre 80 years on

Warsaw pauses to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Uprising’s bloodiest chapter.

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Centuries-old dugout canoe found at bottom of river in central Poland

A group of explorers found a dugout canoe, the oldest type of boat used by humans, at the bottom of the river less than 30 kilometers from the outskirts of Warsaw.

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Warsaw Uprising was ‘simply good against evil,’ says head of National Army Museum in London

Justin Maciejewski has an intimate familial connection to the Warsaw Uprising.

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Support for Warsaw Uprising was the first conflict between Western Allies and Soviets, says Norman Davies

Controversies about the decision to launch the Warsaw Uprising continue to this day.

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Oldest Warsaw Uprising hero dies at age of 106

The oldest participant of the Warsaw Uprising passed away at the age of 106 on Thursday, the day the Polish capital marks the 80th anniversary of the WWII insurrection.

Photo: PAP / Szymon Pulcyn

Warsaw’s living museum: following the traces of the 1944 Uprising

Much has been made of Warsaw’s wartime destruction and subsequent resurrection. While “the phoenix city” today cuts a modern silhouette, scratching below its shiny surface reveals a living museum bristling with traces of the past.

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Baltic states team up to promote military heritage

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have started a joint project to develop a shared military heritage tourism offering.

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Germans ‘murdered, raped and looted’ while suppressing Warsaw Uprising, says historian

TVP World spoke to World War II historian Alina Nowobilska.

Warsaw insurgents, first days of August 1944. Photo: PAP arch.

Warsaw remembers the cost and sacrifice of 1944 uprising

At 5 p.m. on August 1, ear-splitting sirens will wail out in Warsaw, church bells will ring and locals will stop to reflect.

One of the recipients receives her award from Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace. Photo: Courtesy of prezydent.pl

President decorates museum staff and volunteers for keeping Warsaw Uprising memory alive

Poland’s president has awarded state distinctions to staff at the capital’s Warsaw Rising Museum as well as to contractors and volunteers for their part in keeping alive the memory of the Warsaw Uprising.

Photo: PAP / Albert Zawada

Warsaw cellars at heart of Ghetto Uprising granted protection

A silent witness to one of Warsaw’s most tragic chapters, a pair of 19th century cellars found in what was once the heart of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto have been entered into the register of monuments by the region’s conservator.

Photo colorized by Mariusz Zając.

The living color of inter-war Warsaw

As the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising creeps closer, thoughts have naturally turned to the city’s desperate battle for freedom and its subsequent destruction - yet before the carnage, and before the devastation, a different Warsaw existed, one that is beautifully captured in the colorized images of Mariusz Zając.

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Over 100 bottles of champagne found on 19th century shipwreck

Over 100 bottles of champagne have been found on a 19th century shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz

Warsaw march commemorates 82nd anniversary of Nazi deportation of Jews to Treblinka

A March of Remembrance to mark the 82nd anniversary of Nazi Germany deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp passed through the streets of Warsaw on Monday.

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Warsaw Uprising holds lessons for Ukraine war says Polish historian

As in Warsaw in 1944, the West has been slow to react to the threat to Ukraine, Adam Zamoyski told TVP World.

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Anniversary of Hitler assassination attempt recalls a failed effort at redemption

The anniversary of Claus von Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt on Hitler revives the notion of ‘good’ Germans during WWII, yet highlights the rarity of such actions, given that Stauffenberg was considered a traitor by most of his countrymen.

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Warsaw royal castle clock marks its 50th anniversary

The Warsaw Royal Castle commemorated the 50th anniversary of its iconic clock's restart after the war, a key symbol of the castle's restoration.

Victims' relatives gather during a memorial meeting for the Malaysia Airlines MH17 air disaster at the monument in Dudok Park, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Photo: PAP/EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL

Ten years on, the Netherlands commemorate victims of flight MH17

The Netherlands commemorated on Wednesday the 298 victims of flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine 10 years ago.

Photo: PAP/Tomasz Waszczuk

Over 1,200 reenactors stage one of the largest medieval battles in Europe

Over 1,200 reenactors participated in a grand recreation of the Battle of Grunwald, commemorating the victory of Polish-Lithuanian forces over the Teutonic Order.

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3,000-year-old ornate dagger found on Poland’s Baltic coast

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‘A remarkable feat of Polish engineering’: remembering the rotation of Warsaw’s Lubomirski Palace

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