Organisation: National Remembrance Institute

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Minnesota man was Nazi commander, Poland says

Prosecutors of the state National Remembrance Institute have asked a regional court in Lublin, Poland, to issue an arrest warrant for Karkoc.

Mon, 13 Mar, 2017

Claim Poland’s Lech Walesa was paid informant for communist-era secret security service

Seized documents show that Poland’s former president and Solidarity founder, Lech Walesa, was a paid informant for the communist-era secret security service, the head of the country’s history institute has said.

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016

Poland’s last communist leader charged over martial law

PROSECUTORS filed charges yesterday against Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, in connection with his imposition of martial law in 1981 as the Soviet -backed regime tried to crush the Solidarity pro-democracy movement.

Sat, 01 Apr, 2006

Walesa examines communist-era security files

Solidarity founder and former President Lech Walesa examined dozens of files today that communist-era Polish secret police gathered against him while he was a dissident leader in the 1970s and 80s.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2005

Russia: Massacre of 21,000 Poles not genocide

The massacre of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police n 1940 was not genocide, Russia’s top military prosecutor said today.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2005