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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Jagiellonian University for a lecture to students and intellectuals on the future of a united Europe in Krakow, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

France’s Macron: Distancing of Russia a ‘major error’ for EU

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

President Emmanuel Macron,left, of France and his Polish host, President Andrzej Duda, shake hands before talks on developing recently-strained bilateral ties at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

France’s Macron wants closer ties with Poland on EU

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 22, file 2020 photo, shoppers wear face masks as they line up at a grocery store in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Arek and Jenina Rataj were starting a new life in the Chinese industrial center of Wuhan when a viral outbreak spread across the city of 11 million. While they were relatively safe sheltering at home, Arek felt compelled to go out and document the outbreak of the new type of coronavirus. Among his subjects: the construction of a new hospital built in a handful of days; biosecurity check points; and empty streets. (AP Photo/Arek Rataj, File)

AP Photos: Teacher’s photos document virus-hit Chinese city

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

Poland: New law allows prison terms for disrupting hunts

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FILE-In this July 16, 2019 file photo a woman passes the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Two co-founders of the museum urged the third partner — the Polish government — to comply with an agreement to re-appoint the museum's former director, saying a failure to do so is incomprehensible and is damaging to Polish-Jewish relations. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland urged to end ‘damaging’ impasse at Jewish museum

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 photo, Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski delivers a speech during commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Turski made a powerful warning against indifference in the face of discrimination. His remarks are reverberating strongly in his native Poland, with some praising it as a wise and historic speech, but the conservative government criticizing it as overtly political. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Auschwitz survivor inspires many, but others find fault

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, left, welcomes vice president of the European Commission Vera Jourova,right, for talks on the conflict over the government's much-criticized taking of steps to control the judiciary in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

EU high official has talks in Poland on rule of law threats

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, meets members of the Jewish community during a ceremony to inaugurate the renovated Wall of Names. Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 at the Shoah memorial in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

France’s Macron to make first visit to Poland on Feb. 3-4

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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, Nazi camps survivor Marija Frlan, who will turn 100 on the Holocaust Remembrance day, talks to the Associated Press during an interview at her home in Rakek, Slovenia. Frlan, who was held at the Ravensbruck camp in northern Germany for over a year in 1944-45, will join other survivors and officials in Poland on Monday for the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Survivor in Slovenia turns 100 on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By ALI ZERDIN - Associated Press

People holding a Poland and European Union flags take part in a protest outside Poland's parliament building as lawmakers voted to approve the much-criticized legislation that allows politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Poland's lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to legislation that will allow politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, a change that European legal experts warn will undermine judicial independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Legal chaos in Poland deepens, posing major challenge for EU

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Illustration on cultural memory in Russia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Vladimir Putin’s modern Russia is a willing prisoner of its Stalinist past

By Roger Moorhouse

People holding a Poland and European Union flags take part in a protest outside Poland's parliament building as lawmakers voted to approve the much-criticized legislation that allows politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Poland's lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to legislation that will allow politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, a change that European legal experts warn will undermine judicial independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish parliament OKs law allowing gov’t to punish judges

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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, the sun lights the buildings behind the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Germany. World leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp _ once on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Jerusalem and again on Jan. 27 at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland. The fact that there will be two competing ceremonies reflects how politically charged World War II remains for nationalist governments in Russia and Poland. (Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary

By VANESSA GERA and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

The sun lights the buildings behind the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Germany, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi visits Auschwitz before 75th anniversary of its liberation

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The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered, inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. On January 27, 2020 _ 75 years after its liberation _ hundreds of survivors from across the world will come back to visit Auschwitz for the official anniversary commemorations. In advance of that, Associated Press photographer Markus Schreiber visited the site. Using a panoramic camera with analog film, he documented the remains of the camp in a series of haunting black and white photos. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AP PHOTOS: Auschwitz, 75 years after its liberation

By MARKUS SCHREIBER AND KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2014 file photo, Michael Karkoc works in his yard in Minneapolis. Karkoc, a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities, died Dec. 14, 2019, according to cemetery and public records. He was 100. His family maintained that he was never a Nazi or committed any war crimes. (Richard Sennott/Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI and RANDY HERSCHAFT - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with ex-Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and his appointed successor Igor Krasnov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The upper house of Russian parliament is set to approve Krasnov's appointment Wednesday. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Poland calls on Putin to tell truth at WWII event in Israel

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Poland’s Senate rejects allowing politicians to fire judges

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In this Thursday Jan. 9, 2020 photo Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland. Following fall elections, Speaker Tomasz Grodzki, from the centrist opposition, has become the only politician with any real power to put up roadblocks to the populist ruling party as it seeks to exert full control of the judicial system. A prominent surgeon, Grodzki is using that role as much as he can, angering the government, which has been seeking to discredit him with claims he took bribes as a doctor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland rejects European legal experts’ opinion as ‘parody’

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Poland, Lithuania vow to resist Russian historical offensive

By LIUDAS DAPKUS and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press