SPAIN The Spanish government is warning that amongst the multitudes of refugees that are trying to penetrate Europe, there are ISIS agents trying to infiltrate the nation. According to the report: Spain’s interior minister on Monday called for tighter controls to prevent members of the armed jihadist group Isis from infiltrating the “avalanche” of refugees […]
Three young Polish partiers chose a terrible place to party this weekend – a concentration camp. According to Yediot Aharonot, three skinheads in their thirties infiltrated the Majdanek death camp near the city of Lublin in Poland. One of them took his friends to smoke for pleasure against the booths where prisoners were crowded – […]
The United Nations will host a new exhibition honoring the March of the Living. The exhibit, entitled “When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness,” will launch on Tuesday, January 28, in the Visitor Centre, Dag Hammarskjold Library Lower Level. The opening event and reception will take place that evening in the Library […]
Taiwan will release a Chinese edition of the first known Holocaust report on Auschwitz-Birkenau written by a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated the Nazi death camp, a Polish institute said Monday. According to AFP, the Chinese translation of the report will be available from Taiwanese publisher Acropolis starting Wednesday, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) said on its website. In 1940, Polish […]
State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to Poland is a step in the right direction, but the timing and manner of Kerry’s visit leave much to be desired, especially when viewed in the larger context of the Obama Administration’s antipathy toward Eastern Europe. Kerry is in Poland for talks with the nation’s […]
Sirens rang out and church bells tolled on Friday as Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that saw young Jews rise up against Nazi German forces. Hundreds of people including, Holocaust survivors gathered, at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, where Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski called the revolt a “fight for […]
An artist has caused huge controversy after placing a statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the Daily Mail reports. Some Jewish groups have expressed fury at the decision to install the provocative artwork in the area where thousands of Jews were forced to live during the rule of […]
Despite the change in power in France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open support for former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the recent French presidential elections, she has been quick to patch up relations with Sarkozy’s successor Francois Hollande and to establish a common position with regard to Greece. The two countries, however, appear to […]
Denmark takes up the rotating EU presidency as the year begins, succeeding Poland. Denmark and its left-of-center government are taking the helm in most inauspicious circumstances. The main order of business will be stabilizing the euro, but Denmark itself is out of the euro zone and any attempt by the government to join the currency […]
Poland holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, but as the major issue confronting the union is the stability of the euro to which Poland has not switched (for the moment it is quite content with its zloty), it is Berlin rather than Warsaw that has been setting the tone. Even so, Poland’s finance minister Jacek Rostowski, who […]
