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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts during a bilateral meeting with United States Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference on the Middle East, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Netanyahu misquoted on Holocaust in Poland, his office says

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United States Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The Latest: Russia says no ‘value added’ in Mideast meeting

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United States Vice President Mike Pence with his wife Karen, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki with his wife Iwona and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara, from left, stand at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes during a wreath laying ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference on the Middle East, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

US vice president honors Jews, Poles who resisted Nazis

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts during a bilateral meeting with United States Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference on the Middle East, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Israel’s Netanyahu denies agreeing to Holocaust distortion

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United States Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence arrive at the airport in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference on the Middle East, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The Latest: Pence accuses Russia of trying to divide NATO

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FILE - In this Monday, May 21, 2018 file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, meets with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz at the State Department in Washington. The Polish government, which is closely aligned with President Donald Trump, has joined forces with the U.S. to co-host an international conference on the Middle East on Wednesday Feb. 12, 2019 and Thursday Feb. 13 in Warsaw, hoping to strengthen its ties with Washington as its seeks greater protection from Russia. The hosts are U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

With Mideast meeting, Poland woos Trump but risks other ties

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Robert Biedron addresses the founding convention of his new centre-left party &quot;Wiosna&quot; (Spring), in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Progressive politician seeks Polish ‘Spring’ with new party

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FILE - In this May 1, 2018, file photo, anti-fascists shout slogans against members of the far-right National-Radical Camp in Warsaw, Poland. Poland's political fissures have widened in recent months, pitting conservatives, many of them government supporters, against liberal critics who accuse the leadership of threatening the country's hard-won democracy by undermining the independence of the judiciary and the media. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s political divide widens more after mayor is slain

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Police stand between anti-fascist protesters and a group of Polish nationalists who want to place a wreath at Auschwitz in honor of Poles murdered by the Germans, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2019. The nationalists are led by a far-right activist, Piotr Rybak, who has been imprisoned for burning the effigy of Jew. He calls it an act of protest against the Polish government, which he accuses of remembering only Jews and not murdered Poles in yearly observances at the memorial site. That claim is false. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Piotr Rybak, far-right Poles protest Auschwitz commemorations

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An actor of the Romania's Jewish State Theatre rehearse the musical drama &quot;The Lights of the Ghetto&quot; a mix of music and stories by Holocaust survivors in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, a day before the premiere on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma, or Gypsies, were deported and killed during WWII when Romania was ruled by a pro-nazi regime. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust

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Boy and girl scouts standing at attention by the urn with ashes of slain Gdansk city Mayor Pawel Adamowicz during his funeral Mass attended by Poland's and European officials, at St. Mary's Basilica in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. Adamowicz died Monday after being stabbed the night before at a charity event by an ex-convict with a grudge against an opposition party that Adamowicz once belonged to.(AP Photo/Wojtek Strozyk)

Polish PM calls for respect in public life after mayor slain

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A black hearse with the coffin of the slain mayor of the city of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz, followed by a procession of residents, is being brought to St. Mary's Basilica for Saturday's burial, in Gdansk, Poland, on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. Church bells tolled as tens of thousands in Poland's northern city of Gdansk walked in a procession Friday bringing the coffin of the city's slain mayor to a basilica on the eve of his burial. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Archbishop calls for unity at slain Polish mayor’s funeral

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Mayor Pawel Adamowicz's coffin lies in state in the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Residents of a Polish city are paying respects at the coffin of the longtime mayor who was killed in a stabbing attack. Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz will lie in state until Friday at a museum is devoted to the history of Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement, which started in the city. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Tens of thousands honor stabbed Polish mayor on burial eve

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People stand by a heart shaped with candles as a tribute to slain President of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz in Gdansk, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Slain mayor lies in state at Solidarity museum in Poland

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FILE - The May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick. Poland's health minister says that Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died from stab wounds a day after being attacked onstage by an ex-convict at a charity event. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

Mayor’s killing in Poland sparks anger against hate speech

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FILE - The May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick. Poland's health minister says that Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died from stab wounds a day after being attacked onstage by an ex-convict at a charity event. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

Poles place candles and flags at half-staff for slain mayor

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Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, right, far right, speaks to an audience shortly before he was stabbed in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent surgery. (AP Photo/Anna Rezulak/KFP)

Pawel Adamowicz, Polish mayor, dies after being stabbed in heart and abdomen

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, right, far right, speaks to an audience shortly before he was stabbed in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent surgery. (AP Photo/Anna Rezulak/KFP)

The Latest: Poland mayor mourned as critic of anti-Semitism

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A man holds a sharp object just after stabbing Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent an operation.(AP Photo/Anna Rezulak)

Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, stabbed at charity event

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The Latest: Polish mayor in serious condition after stabbing

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