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In this photo taken on Aug. 29, 2018, Steven Reece, an ordained Southern Baptist minister who lives near Atlanta cleans an old Jewish cemetery in Rohatyn, the site of a Jewish Heritage project, close to Lviv, Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2018. For years now, Reece, an ordained Southern Baptist minister from Texas, has been cleaning Jewish cemeteries and erecting memorial plaques at mass grave sites in Poland, and recently Ukraine. (AP Photo/Yevheniy Kravs)

Baptist pastor finds calling in post-Holocaust cemeteries

By VANESSA GERA and DMITRY VLASOV - Associated Press

Aleksandra Swigut, right, applauds Tomasz Ritter, left, of Poland who is declared the winner of the 1st Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. The announcement took place after each of the six finalists played a Chopin concerto accompanied by the Amsterdam-based Orchestra of the 18th century. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s Tomasz Ritter wins Chopin contest on period pianos

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 4, 2018, file photo, buildings in Lower Manhattan provide a backdrop to a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre of 1940, in Jersey City, N.J. Jersey City's governing body had been due to vote Wednesday, Sept. 12, on whether to repeal their decision to move The Katyn Memorial. But the measure didn't get the five votes it needed to pass because five of the nine City Council members abstained, so a special election will be held later this year. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Voters to decide fate of statue marking massacre of Poles

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Georgette Mosbacher, right, shakes hand with Polish President Andrzej Duda during a ceremony receiving her credentials as new United States ambassador to Poland, at the Belweder Palacein Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Opposition slams Poland’s president for anti-EU speech

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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, right, and Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu, hold a joint press conference in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. The press conference concluded a trilateral foreign ministers meeting.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

NATO members concerned about Russia “military posturing”

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Poland charges former gov’t employee with spying for Russia

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Georgette Mosbacher,left, shakes hand with Polish President Andrzej Duda after receiving her credentials as new United States ambassador to Poland, at the Belweder Palacein Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Georgette Mosbacher starts as US ambassador in Poland

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Covert Action’ by Seth G. Jones

By Joseph C. Goulden

This 1949 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a U.S. visa photo of Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in the Queens borough of New York. The White House says that Palij, a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been deported to Germany, 14 years after a judge ordered his expulsion. In a statement, the White House said the deportation of Palij was carried out early Tuesday Aug. 21, 2018. (US Department of Justice via AP)

Poland asks to see US documents on deported ex-Nazi guard

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Poland: Court vacancy disputed by chief justice holding seat

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks at the Conference of Energy Cooperation in Sydney, during his state visit to Australia. During a visit to New Zealand, Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday, Aug. 22, defended the moves his nation's government have made to take control of the judicial system. Poland's conservative government lowered the retirement age for Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65 as part of a broader judicial overhaul which has put it in conflict with the European Union. Poland's Supreme Court this month suspended implementation of the legislation, which would force more than one-third of the court's justices to retire. (Dean Lewins/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Poland’s president to visit White House in mid-September

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Polish police remove people from the building of the National Council of the Judiciary who were protesting the council's appointment of new judges to the Supreme Court in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland likely to ignore EU court ruling on justice overhaul

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Polish President Duda defends government’s judicial moves

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this Nov. 20, 2003, file photo, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York. The White House says that Palij, a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been deported to Germany, 14 years after a judge ordered his expulsion. In a statement, the White House said the deportation of Palij, who lived in New York City, was carried out early Tuesday Aug. 21, 2018. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP, File)

U.S. deports former Nazi camp guard, 95, to Germany

By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 photo a stork walks on a field in the early morning near Bierun, Poland. Storks that have nested in Poland for the summer are heading south for the winter earlier than usual this year, and ornithologists believe the change is related to climate change. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

White storks leave Polish nests early after hot, dry summer

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The Aug. 10, 2017 photo shows Ukrainian activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska,left, and her husband Bartosz Kramek during an anti-government protest in Warsaw, Poland. They hold white roses, a symbol of protest against the Polish ruling party and behind them a banner reads: &quot;Freedom, Equality, Democracy.&quot; Poland has used its power as a European Union member to have Kozlovska banned from the entire Schengen passport-free zone, saying she poses a threat to security. But the Warsaw government has given few details explaining the move, and critics are accusing it of abusing its power to intimidate civil society and the country's large Ukrainian minority. (Lyudmyla Kozlovska via AP)

Poland bans Ukraine activist from Europe, raising questions

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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas bows in front of the Death Wall, after laying a wreath in the former German Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Jarek Praszkiewicz)

German foreign minister honors Nazi victims at Auschwitz

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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, right, meets with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (Mick Tsikas/Pool Photo via AP)

Poland’s president visits Australian capital and Parliament

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Polish Army soldiers holding military unit banners march on one of the city's main streets during a yearly military parade celebrating the Polish Army Day in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, with the Royal Castle in the background. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland marks Army Day with parade, call for US military base

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EU steps up action against Poland over supreme court law

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