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In this image released by Focus Features, Efrat Dor, from left, Jessica Chastain, Timothy Radford, Shira Haas and Martha Issova appear in a scene from "The Zookeeper's Wife." (Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features via AP)

‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ star Jessica Chastain and director Niki Caro discuss Holocaust in Poland

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 27, 2017. The AJC, a 111-year-old global organization based in New York, has a long history of engagement in the region. It was the first Jewish organization to call for recognizing German unification after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it supported Central and Eastern European nations as they worked to become democracies and join the European Union and NATO. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Global Jewish group celebrates new Central Europe office

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CORRECTS SLUG - Film director Niki Caro, left and Hollywood star Jessica Chastain, who plays the main character, gesture during a press conference prior to the gala screening of &quot;The Zookeeper's Wife&quot; in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Hollywood film on couple who saved Jews premiering in Poland

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Warsaw lists properties that pre-WWII owners can reclaim

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo speaks as she leaves hospital after being hospitalized for a week following a car crash in Warsaw, Poland, Friday Feb. 17, 2017. Szydlo suffered minor injuries when the car she was traveling in swerved to avoid another car and hit a tree in the Polish town of Oswiecim on Feb. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s PM Szydlo leaves hospital a week after car crash

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In this Tuesday Feb. 7, 2017 photo, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo arrives at a press conference. Szydlo was in a car wreck on Friday that involved a young driver in a Fiat 500 hitting her car from the side and was being checked out in a hospital, officials and news reports said, adding she was not badly hurt. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz )

The Latest: Doctor says prognosis for Polish PM is good

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A government opponent burns an effigy of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the powerful head of Poland's ruling conservative Law and Justice party before the parliament building in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, the 35th anniversary of the imposition of martial law clampdown. The man protests the ruling party's policy saying it does not protect families in trouble. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Large protests in Poland as leader vows to stifle opposition

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Protesters raise hangers, symbolizing illegal abortion, as they shout slogans demonstrating against a possible tightening of the country’s abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Rallies in Warsaw and other cities are being held under the slogan “No to the Torture of Women” and come as the influential Roman Catholic church launches a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Strict law pushes Polish women to have abortions abroad

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

A group of American tanks and soldiers take part in a yearly military parade marking the Polish Army Day, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, in a symbolic show of increased U.S. military involvement in a region shaken by a more assertive Russia. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

U.S. tanks join Polish parade in show of military presence

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A tent stands ready to welcome the heads of the 28 NATO members and other officials for a NATO summit at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 7, 2016. The Polish capital Warsaw will host a two-day NATO summit starting Friday, July 8, the first time ever that it hosts a top-level meeting of the Western military alliance which it joined in 1999. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

NATO boosts support for countries battling Islamic extremism

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (left) is welcomed by Polish President Andrzej Duda to Warsaw, which will host a two-day summit starting Friday. It is the first time Poland has hosted a top-level meeting of the Western military alliance, which it joined in 1999. The summit will be "a defining moment for our security," Mr. Stoltenberg said Thursday. (Associated Press)

NATO’s Warsaw summit focus on threats, relevance

By Carlo Munoz - The Washington Times

Critics, including top officials with the European Union, say the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, in its haste to impose its conservative agenda, has run roughshod over democratic norms since taking power last fall, even trying to subvert the country's highest constitutional court. (Associated Press)

Beata Szydlo government’s Family 500+ baby subsidy polarizes Poland

By Karol Bulski - Special to The Washington Times

Hundreds stood outside the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in northern Poland in August 1980 as striking workers held a series of meetings inside. Today the shipyard represents a flourishing industry for Poles. (Associated Press)

Gdansk shipyard, famed Solidarity movement birthplace, celebrates a comeback

By Beata Biel - Special to The Washington Times

This photo from Aug. 12 2015, shows the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. A Polish-American Holocaust survivor, Sigmund Rolat, plans to build a memorial to the thousands of Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the war in this park next to the museum, an area in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s mixed feelings over memorial to rescuers of Jews

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 21, 2014, file photo, Polish and British troops take part in a joint military exercise in Swietoszow, Poland, with more than 1,000 British troops participating. Across many nations of eastern Europe ordinary people are heeding a call to receive military training to learn what to do in case of war, and backed by NATO forces on a mission to reassure citizens that they're safe from Russian aggression. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Ordinary folk take up military training over Russia threat

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Russian soldiers march in a Victory Day Parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Germany. (Associated Press)

Russia, Poland battle over World War II Victory Day celebrations conflict

By Beata Biel and Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin walks past a historical map of Poland as he tours the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews during the opening of the core exhibition, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Museum of Jewish history opens in Poland

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Russia Federation's President Vladimir Putin attends at the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Polish army officer, civilian charged with spying for Russia

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A man points at a 9th century wall painting of Saint Anna in an enhanced exhibition of Christian-era paintings from Faras, Sudan, at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Polish archaeologists found and saved the paintings in the 1960s in a UNESCO action before they could be flooded by the New Aswan Dam reservoir. Some of the found paintings were brought to the National Museum in Warsaw, the others are in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw upgrades exhibit of saved Sudanese art

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press