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A rabbi say prayers on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops , at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday Jan. 26, 2024. Main ceremonies with the participation of a handful of survivors are to take place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial place on Saturday, Jan. 27, which is also the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, left, shakes hands with Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Japan’s foreign minister visits Poland to strengthen ties with the NATO nation

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Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa being greeted in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Monday Dec. 11, 2023. Though he was hospitalized last week for COVID-19, Walesa nevertheless traveled early from his home in Gdansk to attend the parliamentary session. The national conservatives who have ruled Poland for eight years are expected to finally relinquish power this week to a centrist bloc led by political veteran Donald Tusk. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A day of two prime ministers in Poland begins the delayed transition to centrist, pro-EU government

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony where he swore in Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and a new Cabinet in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday Nov. 27, 2023. Duda swore in a government that is expected to last no longer than 14 days, a tactical maneuver that allows the conservative Law and Justice party to hang onto power a bit longer — and make more appointments to state bodies. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s new parliament brings back state financing for in vitro fertilization

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FILE - Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister addresses supporters at his party headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Poland's voters delivered a clear verdict. After eight years of rule by an illiberal government, they have had enough. While the conservative ruling Law and Justice party won more votes than any other single party, it lost its majority in parliament and will not hold enough seats to govern the country. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Poland’s voters reject their right-wing government, but many challenges lie ahead

By Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Man prepares to cast his vote during parliamentary elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Poland is holding an election Sunday that many see as its most important one since the 1989 vote that toppled communism. At stake are the health of the nation's democracy, its legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's eastern flank that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine.(AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Poles vote in a high-stakes election that will determine whether right-wing party stays in power

By Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Workers hoisting campaign banner of ruling Law and Justice leader and Poland's most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is running in crucial parliamentary election, in Sandomierz, Poland, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. At stake in Sunday's vote are the health of the nation's democracy, strained under the ruling conservative Law and Justice party, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's eastern flank that has been a crucial ally. The main challenger is centrist Civic Coalition. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland prepares to vote in a high-stakes national election with foreign ties and democracy at stake

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Illustration on Poland's self-defense by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Poland has every right to prioritize its own security — and so does the U.S.

By Wilson Beaver

Historian Dariusz Stola, who worked with the anti-communist underground movement Solidarity in the 1980s, speaks to The Associated Press in his home in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. As a historian and a former dissident, Stola sees parallels between the way the communist authorities and Poland's populist leaders use propaganda and distort the truth for political ends. Concerns about democracy are driving the choice of many Poles as they prepare to vote in a national election Sunday viewed as the most important one since 1989. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Many who struggled against Poland’s communist system feel they are fighting for democracy once again

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, addressing an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at mobilizing supporters in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk says change ‘is inevitable’ as election supporters rally

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Harvesters collect wheat in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine, on Aug. 9, 2022. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says his government will not lift its embargo on Ukraine grain imports on Thursday because it would hurt the interests of Polish farmers. In accordance with the European Union, the embargo was imposed in April, until Sept. 15 to prevent Ukraine's produce from glutting the Polish market. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Poland says it won’t lift its embargo on Ukraine grain because it would hurt its farmers

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, look on in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. Poland's controversial commission for examining Russian influences in Poland, that is seen as targeting the opposition ahead of Oct.15 parliamentary elections will not be formed before that vote, a prominent member of the ruling party said Friday, Aug, 18. The commission is seen as intended to diminish the popularity of main opposition leader Donald Tusk ahead of the elections in which the ruling conservative party is seeking an unprecedented third term. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland heads into a divisive election dealing with a war next door

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, greets Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during a state visit at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. At a joint news conference de Sousa vowed continuing support for Ukraine's struggle against Russia's invasion, while Duda said Poland is watching Russia's transfer of some nuclear weapons into neighbouring Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s leader says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security

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Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak speaks during a ceremony after receiving its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, at an air base in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, 15 May 2023. Poland's defense minister said Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, that the country intends to put 10,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus, a statement that comes as Warsaw worries about migrants and Russian-linked mercenaries coming across its border. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus

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A metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. Poland’s president has announced that the country will hold its parliamentary election on October 15. The announcement on Tuesday marks the official start of an electoral campaign that has informally been underway for months and is being shaped by Russia’s war against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration

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This image from video released Wednesday, July 19, 2023, appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, for the first time since he led a short-lived rebellion in June. The grainy video of him speaking to troops at a field camp purportedly in Belarus, was posted on a messaging app channel linked to Prigozhin's Wagner private military company. (AP Photo)

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries launch joint training with Belarusian military near Polish border

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, is greeted by his Polish host, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, ahead of their talks on regional security, war in Ukraine and bilateral cooperations in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Kishida made a stop in Warsaw on his way to NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Japan’s leader holds security, business talks in Poland on his way to NATO summit

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin incited a rebellion against Russia's military leaders and marched with his troops toward Moscow but aborted his mutiny when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered an agreement that included exile for the warlord in Belarus. (AP Photo, File)

Recapping the revolt in Russia, through the words of 4 presidents and a mutinous warlord

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Participants join an anti-government march led by the centrist opposition party leader Donald Tusk, who along with other critics accuses the government of eroding democracy, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Poland's largest opposition party led a march Sunday meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government, which it accuses of eroding democracy and following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy. The march is being held on the 34th anniversary of the first partly free elections, a democratic breakthrough in the toppling of communism across Eastern Europe. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s state media criticized for its coverage of huge anti-government march

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Men with 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, on Jan. 23, 2020. The European Union stepped up its rule-of-law fight with member state Poland on Monday, June 5, 2023, when the bloc's highest court confirmed that Warsaw had refused to comply with EU rules on judicial independence for which it has already lost over half a billion euros in fines. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

EU top court says that Poland’s justice reform infringes EU law

By Raf Casert - Associated Press