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Warsaw, Jan. 28: PM Marek Belka said after meeting with leaders of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) that he had urged SLD to support an early election. I think June is a better date for the ballot and I repeated once more that I did not plan to resign my government if elections were held in autumn, Belka told. Early elections were also supported by Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) caucus leader Krzysztof Janik and deputy PM Jerzy Hausner. Janik admitted that some in SLD would prefer an autumn date as foreseen in the Polish constitution. SLD leader Jozef Oleksy said that he preferred an autumn election as it would allow the ratification of the EU constitution treaty this year. Asked about the government's role in deciding the issue Janik stated that the government "had nothing to do with the matter". The government is a representation of parliament. The constitutional election date is announced by the president. In cases of an early election the decision lies with parliament and needs a 307-strong majority, Janik explained.

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Speaking at the Wyre Forest Holocaust Memorial Service today Cllr Mike Oborski, Consul of the Republic of Poland for the West Midlands, said…

I want to remind you about Eva Mozes Kor. We talked about her here – exactly one year ago.

Mozes Kor lived in Hungary in a well-to-do Jewish family, but the coming of the Nazis changed everything. In 1944 the 10-year-old Mozes Kor and her identical twin sister, Miriam, were packed into a cattle car with their mother, father and two other sisters, aged 12 and 14, and taken to Auschwitz.

Mozes Kor said she remembers her very religious father in the corner of the stinking car, praying, probably for the last time. When they were herded off the train, Mozes Kor's father and older sisters disappeared into the crowd. She never saw them again.

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The southern Polish town of Oswiecim founded 8 centuries ago saw its destiny tragically transformed in 1940 when the Nazis renamed the town Auschwitz and set up the most notorious of the war-time death camps on its outskirts. Its tragic past is a burden, so how do the ordinary people of Oswiecim live in the shadow of Auschwitz? Danusia Szafraniec reports.

Today the town of Oswiecim is seen in the eyes of the world as Auschwitz, the hub of Adolf Hitler’s „final solution” which managed to wipe out Europe’s Jews. But its citizens say that there actually are two towns there: one alive and the other – a memorial. For many Oswiecim citizens living in a town with such a heavy past is not easy.

'This town is nothing more than a museum nowadays. There is nothing to look here for and your people are leaving the town in great numbers as there is no future for them here.'

Young people – just like this student – agree that their town is dying.

'Indeed, the town is not developing very quickly, especially as far as its industry is concerned. I think it is all due to the historical burden laid upon our town because the while world imagines Oswiecim as one big concentration camp which is not true.'

The living town has had its existence marred by numerous rows between the international Jewish community and the Roman catholic church as well as would-be developers. One row focused on a monastery run by Catholic nuns within the camp premises, which provoked outrage among the international Jewish community. After a decade of bickering the nuns were forced to leave the site. A shopping center that was supposed to be built in the former tannery where the Nazis stocked the belongings of killed Jews never got built following fierce protests. And finally, a discotheque almost opposite the entrance to the infamous camp was forced to shut its doors after it also caused an international uproar.
So as the world’s eyes are on Auschwitz as the most notorious Holocaust site, many of its inhabitants are forced to live right next door to the place that God forgot.

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As the world markscthe 60th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation by the Red Army, Anna has her own bitter memories of a time earlier during the Second World War, when in 1939 her home town of Lwow was overran by the Red Army, as Nazi Germany and Russia divided up Poland between themselves. Anna talks to Peter Gentle about how it felt being liberated by the Soviets in Auschwitz.

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On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, world leaders and Holocaust survivors converged on what came to be known as the place God forgot. Slawek Szefs files this report from Auschwitz.

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The Opole region in the south is observing the 60th anniversary of the March of The Dead – the tragic evacuation of Nazi German concentration camp prisoners in the final months of World War Two. The events are marked in Konradow on the Polish side and in Mikulovice across the Czech border. Thousands of exhausted and disease stricken inmates died along the route of this mass evacuation. Their abandoned bodies, often in hundreds, had been later buried by local inhabitants in nearby cemeteries. A special memorial service is being held in the evening in Konradow with the participation of some of the few survivors of the ordeal of 60 years ago.

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President decorates Red Army Auschwitz liberators

Cracow, Jan. 27: President Aleksander Kwasniewski decorated with high state distinctions five soldiers of the Red Army, who participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. During the Forum "Let my people live" in Cracow the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland was given to Yakov Vinnichenko. Nikolai Chertkov and Genry Koptev- Gomolov received the Knight's Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic.Anatoly Shapiro and Ivan Martinushkin received distinctions in absentia. The first was granted the Officer's Cross and the second the Knight's Cross of the order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Cracow, Jan. 27: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Thursday morning at the Cracow-based Juliusz Slowacki Theatre to participate in the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation. Putin was due in Cracow on Wednesday but the date was put off for Thursday due to adverse weather conditions. The Russian president told the forum that "today, 60 years after the tragedy we perceive the Holocaust not only as the national tragedy of Jews but as the catastrophe of the entire humanity." "Nazis picked up Poland as the site of a total, mass extermination of people, above all people of Jewish nationality. The Polish soil turned into the epicentre of the Holocaust. It became the place of the bloody realisation of Nazi racist theories according to which other nations were subhumans (Untermenschen)," Putin said.

Cracow, Jan. 27: The Allies did nothing to stop the extermination of Jews; by bombing the camp in Auschwitz and railways leading to it they could prevent the continuation of the murder, Israeli President Moshe Katzav told the Forum "Let My People Live". "It is hard for us to forget that in the 20th century the world remained silent when the Jewish nation was being exterminated," Katzav said. He recalled that Palestine was closed for Jews fleeing Nazis."The Allies knew about the extermination of the European Jews and unfortunately failed to come forward with any initiative. They could save hundreds of thousands of Jews from gas chambers," the Israeli president said. He recalled anti-Semitism prevailing in Europe at that time and stressed the slaughter could have been prevented if the State of Israel had existed. The Israeli president called on the world's youth to protest against any case of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. "We appeal to the European Union: Please do not let Nazism take root in the European youth's minds."

Cracow, Jan. 27: I can promise that there will be no room for anti- Semitism, xenophobia and national disputes in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told the "Let my people live" Forum. Yushchenko said that the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp was for him and his family a special and sacred place as his father had been sent there and received the camp number 11367. "Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in this place, soldiers and comrades-in-arms of my father. This is the pain I can feel and this pain is alive today. This pain is very special for me as this is a healing pain," the Ukrainian president said and added that he wanted all his compatriots and all citizens of the world to share this pain with him. "As only this pain and memory can give us strength and wisdom", he added.

Cracow, Jan. 27: In the concentration camps in Europe a man committed one of the worst crimes one could even imagine, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday during the "Let my people live" Forum in Cracow. Auschwitz is the biggest cemetery in the world where one cannot find any graves but only the ashes of countless human beings, he stressed. The U.S. Vice president stressed that on the day of the anniversary we should express gratitude to the liberators and to those who were fighting to free the continent from tyranny. Let us remember that these unspeakable atrocities did not happen in some far-off place without any civilization but in the heart of the civilized world, Cheney said. Warning against the Holocaust, Cheney stressed that the Holocaust took place in a concrete historical period but was not an isolated event. The tragedy of the camps shows that evil is real and must be called by its name and must be confronted, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney stressed and added that the tragedy reminds us that anti-Semitism starts with words but does not end with words. Let us oppose to intolerance and hatred before they are transformed into committed atrocities, he concluded.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: French President Jacques Chirac opened a permanent exhibition devoted to people deported from France to and murdered in Auschwitz in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on Thursday. The French delegation was welcomed by former Auschwitz inmate Wladyslaw Bartoszewski in front of the gate which carries the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" inscription. The president was accompanied by Simone Veil, also former Auschwitz inmate. Chirac and Veil unveiled a plaque marking the date of opening the exhibition by the president on the wall of Block 20. The exhibition "Deported from Francji to KL Auschwitz" features the fate of six people: Pierre Masse, George Halpern, Jean Lemberg, Charlotte Delbo and the couple of Hersch and Sara Beznos. The personal experiences of the six serve as a background for presenting the situation of Jews in France from 1939, Nazi occupation, the French Resistance and support actions. The exhibitions features nearly 1,000 photos of Jewish children from France murdered in Birkenau.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: A signal given by an approaching train inaugurated main ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation on Thursday afternoon. The commemorations were attended by delegation from over 40 countries including Presidents of Poland, Israel, Russia, France, Ukraine and Germany Aleksander Kwasniewski, Moshe Katzav, Vladimir Putin, Jacques Chirac, Viktor Yushchenko, Horst Koehler and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.The ceremonies took place on the premises of the former concentration camp in Birkenau at the foot of the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism near a railroad platform on which the Nazis conducted selections of prisoners. On behalf of Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners speeches were delivered by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski (prisoner No. 4427), French citizen of Jewish origin Simone Veil (prisoner No. 78651) and Romani Rose who spoke on behalf of the Roma people. Next they signed the Charter of the International Education Centre about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Papal Nuncio to Poland Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk read out a message of John Paul II. Later official speeches were given by Presidents Kwasniewski, Putin and Katzav. Cantor Symcha Keller from Lodz played a shofar call bringing the ceremony to the end. Jews play the shofar only on special occasions. Prayers for Auschwitz victims were said in Hebrew, Latin and Polish.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: When as eighteen-year old Pole I stood for the first time at the assembly square of Auschwitz I - as Schutzhaeftling number 4427 - among five thousand and a half other Poles it did not even come to my mind that I would outlive Hitler and survive World War Two, professor Wladyslaw Bartoszewski said. We, the Polish prisoners, were alone during the first fifteen months of the existence of this horrible place. The free world did not pay any interest in our sufferings and our deaths despite tremendous efforts by a secret resistance organization in the camp to sent the information to the outside world, Bartoszewski said speaking on behalf of former Auschwitz prisoners. "If Poles or Russians were sub-humans for Germans in Auschwitz- Birkenau, then Jews from France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, countries of the then Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were treated not like sub-humans but like vermin," Bartoszewski said."None of the world countries reacted adequately to the news coming from Poland about the Auschwitz tragedy," Bartoszewski said."The Polish resistance movement kept on informing and warning the free world. In the last quarter of 1942 the governments of Great Britain and the United States were precisely informed what was going on in Auschwitz-Birkenau owing to a mission of Polish emissary Jan Karski as well as other reports," Bartoszewski said."The Polish foreign minister in London on December 10, 1942 sent a not to the governments of the United Nations appealing for "not only of condemning the crimes committed by the Germans and punishing the criminals, but also for finding means offering the hope that Germany might be effectively restrained from continuing to apply its methods of mass extermination". No effective measures were found and in fact no attempts were made to find them. And at that moment over a half of the future victims were still alive," Bartoszewski stressed. The only result of the Polish initiative was a short declaration of the 12 allied countries concerning the responsibility for the extermination of Jews published on December 17, 1942. In the declaration, which did not mention the name of Auschwitz- Birkenau, the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Soviet Union, the Great Britain, the United States, Yugoslavia and the French National Committee, admitted that they were aware of the fate of Jews "in Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse", and promised to punish those responsible for the crime. During my life I took part in hundreds of regional and international commemorations but I think that there will be never again a ceremony like today's one. We must ask ourselves and the entire world how much truth of the horrible experience of totalitarianism we managed to pass on to younger generations. I think that quite a lot but not enough. And being here and now we must take a decision - as the last will of prisoners who are passing away - concerning the work of the Centre of Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Graves inspire an ordinary man to reflection. But there are no graves here. So in this place where this unimaginable crime was committed this reflection must be transformed into special responsibility and lasting memory of what had happened. And let me conclude my address with the words from the Book of Job, which are significant both for Jews and Christians: "O, earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry find no resting place", Bartoszewski said.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: "Where we are now gathered, no words can render the entire terrifying truth about the horrors committed in this place. But we must speak, remember, cry out: this was hell on Earth," President Aleksander Kwasniewski said during the main ceremony at the site of the former Nazi camp Auschwitz- Birkenau."Here, humiliation, fear, pain, suffering, death - they were the everyday. The monstrosity of this crime is overwhelming" the president said. "Nazi „death factories” were planned in cold blood. Disciplined butchers fervently did their job to make sure that the crematory stacks kept spilling out smoke. We still cannot forget that „people brought this fate upon people”. We can never accept this," the president stressed.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: "Standing on this tormented soil we must firmly and unequivocally say that any attempts to rewrite history and place killers and their victims, liberators and occupiers on the equal footing are immoral and unacceptable," Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the main ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of liberating the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp."Today we pay tribute to the memory of all those who were mercilessly and in cold-blood killed by the fascist barbarians not only here in Oswiecim but elsewhere. We bow our heads before tens of millions of people from different countries of the world, who survived the hell of concentration camps, who were shot and tortured to death, who died of starvation and diseases. We bow our heads before all the victims of that inhumane war launched by the fascists," Putin said. "It is said that time heals. It does, indeed. But as we stand here in one of the most horrible concentration camps 60 years after its liberation everything that happened here still causes horror, indignation and shiver.It is impossible and unfathomable to comprehend that people are capable of such atrocities, that they may be prone to such a truly universal insanity. It is impossible to ever reconcile with the fact that it all really happened," the Russian President stressed. „Terrorism is not less dangerous or perfidious than fascism”, stressed Putin. It is all the same merciless - and already it claimed thousands of innocent lives.As there were no „good” and „bad” fascists there cannot be „good” and „bad” terrorists. Any double standards here are absolutely unacceptable and deadly dangerous for the civilization. Putin paid the tribute to bravery of of Soviet soldiers of whom 600,000 fell liberating Poland. "We will never forget that the Soviet Union paid a very steep price for its Great Victory. He also addressed the world leaders: "To those who remained here forever we are responsible for not letting this happen again. Never and toward anybody." He added that the Thursday's ceremony in fact opens 60-th anniversary of the great victory. The celebration in Moscow in May, where many of us will gather again, will become its culminating event, he said.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: "The destruction was the work of a nation who produced renowned scientists and musicians. Many knew of the murder but were indifferent. The world knew about the extermination but remained silent," President of the State of Israel Moshe Katzav said. "We know that Europe was a land occupied by the German-Nazi regime. But we also remember that in European countries there was rabid anti-Semitism which left the Jews with no escape and without hope. Opposition and hesitation of the Allies to bomb the death camps and to destroy the railways carrying the Jews to them, claimed more victims from our people, and this too remains a mark on the forehead of humanity. I wish to honor the exceptional persons, members of the Polish people and other nations, Righteous Among the Nations, who felt the pain of the persecuted, who provided shelter and thereby risked their lives," Moshe Katzav said.

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: Auschwitz is not only a site of remembrance but also a warning in the face of today's crimes against the humankind, Romani Rose, the Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma said. But there are no words in which to describe what our compatriots experienced here, Rose said and added that Auschwitz and names of other camps left a lasting mark on the collective memory of our minority and will also shape the awareness of our future generations.

Veil: 60 years ago world stood dumbstruck to discover greatest cemeteries of all times

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: Sixty years ago, the electrical fences around the Auschwitz Birkenau camps were fallen and the world stood dumbstruck to discover the greatest cemeteries of all times, former Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner and President of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah and former President of the European parliament Simone Veil said. More than one and a half million of human beings were exterminated here, most of them sent to gas chambers right upon arrival, their only guilt being that they were born Jews, she stressed.

Horst Koehler visits Nazi Auschwitz camp

Oswiecim, Jan. 27: German President Horst Koehler on Thursday visited KL Auschwitz I (Stammlager) while attending commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the death camp liberation. Horst Koehler, accompanied by representatives of German Jews and Roma including Romani Rose went in the camp through the gate with the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" inscription, went along one of the alleys to the building of former crematorium I. From there the German president went to the premises of the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau, where the main ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of camp liberation will be held.

Jewish medals for presidents of Russia and Poland

Warsaw, Jan. 27: President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski were decorated with the Silver Star of David Medals awarded to them by Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar during the commemoration ceremonies at the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Thursday. Rabbi Lazar who addressed those gathered at the commemorations said he wanted to express gratitude of the Jewish community to both presidents. He said "Jews will never forget heroism and sacrifice of soldiers of the Red Army which suffered so great losses during liberation of this land and the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp." He expressed gratitude to President Kwasniewski "who has the courage to speak openly about the Holocaust on this earth and remind the world that this lesson should never be forgotten."

Warsaw, Jan. 28: According to Citizens Platform MP Bronislaw Komorowski and former Polish Ambassador to Germany Janusz Reiter suggestions appearing in some media of coresponsibility of Poles for the extermination of Jews at KL Auschwitz is as a sign of ignorance, manipulation an lack of historical knowledge. Thursday edition of New York Times wrote that the Auschwitz liberation "commemoration means different things to each nation...for Poland and other Central European countries it is both part of a gradual recognition of their complicity in the killing and an opportunity to draw closer to Europe..."Komorowski commenting for Radio Zet on Friday stressed that such "nonsense" statements about Poles may be an attempt to dump responsibility for the complete lack of reaction to defend the Jews dying at Auschwitz.He recalled that in principle only Poles acted to help Auschwitz inmates, only Poles aided those who escaped from the camp and added that Poland was the only country in the world where Germans imposed a death penalty for helping Jews. Ambassador Reiter speaking for Polish Radio Three said that using the words "Polish concentration camps" is a sign of "manipulation, stupidity and ignorance."

Cracow, Jan. 27: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin decided on the organization of a Polish-Russian economic forum which the two would attend. The forum is to be held in the first half of the year. "We agreed that there will be a meeting during the first half of the year, most likely in St. Petersburg," said Kwasniewski and added that both presidents want to attend it. "...this means that we will meet and we will talk," said the Polish president. Kwasniewski said he talked with Putin while the two presidents travelled from Cracow to Auschwitz to attend ceremonies marking the liberation of the camp. President Kwasniewski said his talks with Putin were dominated by economic issues, including the deliveries of Russian oil and by political issues. Kwasniewski said that Russia is interested in the delivery of oil to Poland and does not treat this as a political issue, but as a sign of normal economic cooperation. "Yukos deposits have been taken over by new companies, they too are ready to deliver (oil) to Poland. Russia is absolutely for the continuation of all this and for solving (problems) in the best spirit of Polish-Russian cooperation," Kwasniewski stressed. The two presidents met once again on late Thursday evening in Balice, outside Cracow. Before going into the meeting President Putin stressed: "We do not plan to put any limits on the deliveries of oil now or in the future." "We want to hold an economic forum, we hope for political contacts, we want our governments and our ministers to cooperate as best as it is possible..." said Kwasniewski adding that he also discussed with Putin the question of Polish food exports to Russia. According to Kwasniewski the two presidents also discussed the question of combatting terrorism and relations between the European Union and Russia.

Cracow, Jan.27: Prime Minister Marek Belka met U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney and a group of U.S. congressmen who attended the Auschwitz liberation ceremonies. When discusing international situation the politicians reviewed prospects of developments in Ukraine and agreed for the need of all-round support for Ukraine undergoing political and economic transformations. They also covered Polish-U.S. military cooperation and its importance for the modernisation of Polish armed forces. Belka once again pointed to Polish expectations concerning visa facilitations for Poles travelling to the USA.

Bratislava, Jan. 28: The outcome of Iraqi elections will affect Poland's further military activity in that country, Poland's defence minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said in Bratislava. Polish and Slovak troops will support the election logistically but they will not be present in polling stations. Iraqi forces will be responsible for keeping order, he added. "In February, after the elections, together with representatives of 16 states in our division, we will asses the military situation. We already know that there will be fewer Polish soldiers in Iraq with more prepared for immediate transfer from Poland to Iraq," Szmajdzinski said. Szmajdzinski and his Slovak counterpart Yuray Lishka discussed military cooperation within the Visegrad Group, cooperation of Poland's and Slovakia's arms producting industries, and further operation of the multi-national division in Iraq.

Hausner for faster wage growth in 2005

Warsaw, Jan. 28: Deputy Prime Minister Jerzy Hausner supports the idea of faster wage growth in 2005 than that foreseen in the budget bill. "Together with the finance minister we are thinking about wage levels in 2005. If the finance ministry thinks that wages could grow faster, then I think this is a rational judgement and a rational signal, Hausner told. Finance minister Miroslaw Gronicki said earlier that the average annual wage growth level in 2005 might be raised from the projected 4.5 percent.

Oleksy: SLD for autumn general elections

Warsaw, Jan. 27: Most of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) will be for autumn general elections, SLD leader Jozef Oleksy said, commenting a Friday-scheduled debate on the election date between the party leadership and prime minister Marek Belka. Oleksy said final decisions on the ballot deadline would fall at a January 31 sitting of the SLD National Council. According to Oleksy a "vast majority" of SLD was for an autumn date. This, Oleksy added, was "surprising" as there had be no signs of such support during earlier debates on the matter. Asked if Belka would manage to convince SLD to an election in June, Oleksy said that Belka could meet up with "the same opposition I encountered when I tried", but admitted that the prime minister "knew how to be convincing". Oleksy confirmed SLD's plans to unite the Polish left for the elections, stressing that he especially hoped SLD renegate Social- democracy for Poland (SdPl) would decide to join a united leftwing bloc. We want to build a broad leftwing election front open for all, including the Freedom Union (UW), Oleksy stressed. Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski in a recent interview for PAP said he saw little chance for a leftwing coalition as divisions between individual parties were too deep.

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Kiev, Jan. 25: European integration was the topic of Polish deputy foreign minister Jan Truszczynski's talks in Kiev during a Tuesday visit in the Ukrainian capital. Truszczynski and his Ukrainian counterparts discussed ways in which Poland could aid Ukraine's EU strivings. The Ukrainian side also thanked Poland for its help in resolving a conflict around Ukraine's presidential elections. According to the Interfax-Ukraina news agency the talks also concerned the possible influence of the events in Ukraine on the country's relations with the EU and preparations to a January 31 meeting of EU foreign ministers.

Warsaw, Jan. 26: Polish-Finish relations and the need for the European Union to work out a common eastern policy are the main topics of talks between Polish Sejm Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz and his Finish counterpart Paavo Lipponen. Lipponen, accompanied by a delegation, has stayed in Poland since Tuesday at Cimoszewicz's invitation. On Thursday he will take part in commemorations of the 60th anniversary of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation. According to Cimoszewicz, shortcoming in Polish-Finish relations are visible in economic cooperation "which could be closer." "We have long been counting on more Finish investments in Poland and on balancing out the trade exchange," he added.

During the meeting Cimoszewicz encouraged the intensification of actions promoting Poland in Finland and vice versa. "We live in close neighbourhood and yet societies knowledge about each other is poor," Cimoszewicz said. The two politicians thoroughly discussed EU relations with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Cimoszewicz said they "showed similar views as Poles and Fins know eastern European partners very well." Finish MPs, members of the delegations, were interested in Polish legislative procedures and the quality of the Polish law. "It turns out the Fins have less problems owing to a simple rule in force in Finland: no law questioned by experts is passed over there," Cimoszewicz said after the meeting.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: The year of 2004 will be remembered in Poland as, above all, the EU joining date, the year that crowned reforms implemented by the country over the past few years, Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak told diplomats accredited to Poland at the traditional New Year's meeting. Pastusiak stressed that Poland's membership of the EU brought tangible effects in the form of economic animation and access to EU funds. He believes that Poland in the EU should support "initiatives promoting fundamental European values" such as democracy and respect for human rights. "Helping appease social and political tension in Ukraine we were guided precisely by this belief," he said. Addressing the diplomats Pastusiak pointed out to world threats that should be countered as terrorism and to crisis situations after elements hit the earth as tsunami. He also expressed the hope that the new year of 2005 will "bring peace to conflict ridden regions including Iraq, the Palestinian Authority and to war-torn African regions." Diplomatic Corps Dean Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk declared that the chamber had diplomats' support as an institution building peace and making good-quality laws.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: Poland will join the Schengen group on Oct. 28, 2007, according to Pawel Dakowski, government commissioner responsible for preparations of state administration bodies to joining the Schengen 2 information system. "Due to IT considerations it is only possible to join the Schengen group on days when time changes from summer to winter or vice versa," he said Tuesday. "Oct. 28, 2007 is a date of time change in Poland." Before Poland joins the Schengen group the country must install a SIS II information system, adjust its law, and get a positive assessment from the EU of its eastern border safety, Dakowski said.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: The government on Tuesday adopted a strategy against corruption for 2005-2009, Interior and Administration Minister Ryszard Kalisz said. He explained that the strategy was the 2nd stage of actions aimed at corruption fighting as the 1st one centred on making and introducing anti-corruption laws and concluded at the end of 2004. Kalisz said Poland would soon ratify a U.N. Convention Against Corruption but he believed the Polish legislation had already been compatible with the convention. Practice can't catch up with good laws we have, he added. He stressed that the new strategy put bigger stress on creating "transparent and citizen-friendly" rules of public life and on social education against corruption. The minister did not want to elaborate on the new strategy telling journalists to browse a related document that was to come out still this week. He said the government was unable to evaluated the amount of means needed for the implementation but added the money would come from ministries' and local governments' own budgets, the EU and NGOs. Kalisz recalled that Transparency International rated Poland 67th among 145 countries as regards the intensity of corruption.

Strasbourg, Jan. 25: We must not put up with attempts at questioning or negating the Holocaust. This crime will forever be a burning wound in our common awareness, said the speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rene van der Linden at a commemorative ceremony devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz camp liberation here Tuesday. "I would like to be able to say today that Europe is free from antisemitism, intolerance and hatred, from disregard for human life and dignity, but I know that this is not so," he also said. Former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Shevach Weiss said in his address he believed that the democratic Europe would be able to fight racism, fascism, xenophobia and cruelty, "with everything that resembles the evil of the past." "I believe this fight will end in success. We have no other choice," Weiss declared. The main ceremonies marking the anniversary will be held in Poland on Thursday.

New York, Jan. 25: Poland plays the role of a guardian of memory, not only because the biggest crime of the past century took place on the Polish soil, but also because we understand that memory of those events well serves the future, Professor Bronislaw Geremek has said.

Geremek, Poland's former foreign minister, headed a Polish delegation to the 28th special U.N. General Assembly held Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Geremek stressed that the calling of this session is an issue of extreme importance for Poland. "The most important issue here is to remind that this lesson (about Auschwitz) cannot be forgotten..." Professor Geremek said that memory of the Auschwitz drama also means firm rejection of stereotypes and ignorance often harming Poland. The usage of the term "Polish camps" is such a case. Geremek said he has already addressed this issue at the European Parliament. "I have done this with good result. A resolution which is to be passed by the European Parliament during its nearest session includes true expressions which do not change the truth about the past," concluded Geremek.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: A Museum of the History of Polish Jews is to be created in Warsaw by autumn of 2007. An agreement to this effect was signed by Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski, Culture Minister Waldemar Dabrowski and President of the Association of Jewish Historical Institute Marian Turski on Tuesday. The museum will be a cultural institution presenting Jewish cultural heritage created in Poland during the over eight centuries, Minister Dabrowski said. It will be situated near the Memorial to Warsaw Ghetto Heroes and will house a main exhibition and temporary ones. Director of the Museum project Jerzy Halbersztadt told PAP that an international competition for the building design will be announced shortly. Many well-known architects, including Daniel Liebeskind and Hans Hollein, are to take part. The museum is to host about 250,000 to 500,000 visitors annually. Marian Turski recalled during the signing ceremony that the history of Polish Jews is an inseparable part of the history of Poland, and the museum will become an essential element of historical education in this country.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: At a time when Russian president Vladimir Putin pays homage to Auschwitz victims, people are killed and massive violations of human rights take place in Chechnya, says a statement from Amnesty International out Tuesday. Putin will come to Poland to attend Thursday's observances of the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz death camp liberation. "The five year old military conflict in the Republic of Chechnya has brought violations of international humanitarian law committed on a broad scale by both sides," the statement reads in part. The perpetrators of the violations largely go unpunished and the victims who seek justice encounter reprisals, it adds. Among the violations committed by the Russian federal troops and Chechen militias the AI lists "out of court executions", disappearances and tortures, rapes and murders as well attacks launched by armed opposition groups. "These can be regarded as war crimes," the statement says.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: The government on Tuesday adopted a draft law on subsidies for the construction of certain types of maritime ships in a move to protect jobs for 125,000 people employed by shipyards and its subsidiaries, deputy Economy and Labour Minister Jacek Piechota said. The document adopted by the government presents to-date results of restructuring programmes in the shipbuilding industry, Piechota explained. However, he said, the sector is still in dire straits and that is why the European Commission approved the state budget subsidies for it. Subsidies will be granted by the economy minister from the so called huge restructuring reserve, via Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego BGK. The ministry estimates that in 2005 subsidies will amount to 110 million zlotys, in 2006 to 150 million zlotys and in 2007 to 115 million zlotys.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: The Finance Ministry does not exclude that it may take advantage of bridge financing in form of bank credits to repay its Paris Club debt. In return it would launch a bond issue, Andrzej Ciopinski of the Finance Ministry told PAP . He added that Poland is waiting for declarations of respective members of the Paris Club on the earlier repayment deal and depending on their contents will decide on future foreign issues. Poland plans to repay its 12.3 billion euro debt to the Paris Club creditors in a single transaction.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: Three core inflation measures fell in December and two, including net inflation, remained unchanged. The net inflation kept the November level of 2.4 percent.

December's core inflation excluding the most volatile prices and fuel prices fell to 4.6 percent from 4.7 percent in November. December's core inflation excluding controlled prices remained at the November level of 4.6 percent. Inflation without the most volatile prices fell to 5.1 percent from 5.4 percent in November. December's 15 pct trimmed mean inflation fell to 3.1 percent from 3.2 percent. December's CPI calculated by the Central Statistical Office GUS was 4.4 percent against 4.5 percent in November.

Warsaw, Jan. 26: The Monetary Policy Council (RPP) left interest rates unchanged and maintained a restrictive bias in the monetary policy on Wednesday.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for a communist government and currently editor-in-chief of the satirical Nie weekly was fined with 20,000 zlotys (6.4 thousand USD) by a Warsaw court on Tuesday for ridiculing Pope John Paul II as the head of the Holly See.

Warsaw, Jan. 25: The number of supporters of Marek Belka's government has grown to 25 percent from 17 percent since December, but opponents of the cabinet are still prevailing and account for 30 percent in January. In December, 28 percent were displeased with Belka's government, according to the CBOS January poll. Compared with December assessment of the government performance has improved: 32 percent of those polled expressed favourable opinions, 10 points up on December, and 45 percent were critical (down 2 points.) Also assessment of the government's economic policy has improved. 28 percent of Poles think that it creates chances for an improvement of the country's situation (5 points up) but 52 percent think the opposite (1 point down on December.) 32 percent of respondents are satisfied with the PM's (27 percent in December) while 42 percent remain critical (3 points down.)

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Presidents, prime ministers, parliamentarians, kings and dukes from 44 countries will attend ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim Jan. 27.

The most prominent guests will include the presidents of: Russia-Vladimir Putin, France-Jacques Chirac, Germany-Horst Koehler, Israel-Moshe Katzav, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, European Commission President Manuel Barroso, European Parliament President Josep Borrell, Dutch Queen Beatrix, Belgian King Albert II and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, representing the Vatican.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, whose father was a camp prisoner, will also attend. Last year Yushchenko supplied documents to the museum certifying that Andriy Yushchenko, a Soviet prisoner of war, wore number 11,367 in Auschwitz.

Commemorations of the camp's liberation, under the patronage of Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, will be attended by an estimated 10,000 people, including at least 1,000 former prisoners. During the event former prisoners will sign the charter of an international center for education on Auschwitz and the Holocaust-an appeal that the tragedy of the Holocaust is never repeated. Official speakers during the ceremony will sign the charter first: former Polish Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski, French intellectual Simone Weil and-on behalf of Romanies exterminated in Auschwitz-Romani Rose. The charter will be conveyed to national leaders worldwide.

The main ceremonies will start on the site of the former Birkenau camp. The sound of a train driving onto a loading ramp will signal the commencement of the celebrations.

Official statements will be delivered by the presidents of Poland, Israel and Russia. Ecumenical prayers will also be held. A special message from Pope John Paul II will be read. The ceremony will end with the lighting of candles and a performance by cantor Josef Malowany and a choir featuring a composition written by Krzysztof Knittel in honor of the occasion.

On the same day an international forum will take place in Cracow entitled "Let My People Live," organized by the Polish Ministry of Culture and the European Jewish Congress. During the forum, President Kwaśniewski will decorate five Red Army soldiers who participated in the liberation of the camp.

"Every generation must be on its guard, to make sure that such a thing never happens again," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote in a declaration before a special session of the UN General Assembly Jan. 19 dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Annan warned that "the evil that destroyed 6 million Jews and others in those camps is one that still threatens all of us today."

Never Forget
n The largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was established on the basis of an order issued by SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler on April 27, 1940. After its expansion in 1941, the lager included the main camp Stammlager Auschwitz, the women's camp Birkenau, the Monowitz camp and more than 40 smaller camps.

According to incomplete documentation, about 1.5 million people were killed in the camp, 90 percent of them Jews. Auschwitz was also the site of methodical Nazi extermination of members of Polish underground organizations, social and political activists and intellectuals as well as Soviet prisoners-of-war. Many deaths can be traced to slave labor exploited by several German corporations; prisoners were decimated by hunger, beatings, torture and pseudomedical experiments conducted by German doctors led by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. There were also regular executions. From the spring of 1942, Zyklon B gas was used to kill prisoners, whose bodies were later incinerated.

In January 1945, the Nazis evacuated the camp, as a result of which thousands of prisoners died during the "March of Death." Jan. 27 Soviet troops entered the camp area, finding about 7,000 prisoners including several hundred children.

Citizens of many countries-including Poland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States and Yugoslavia-perished in the camp.

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The 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp is being commemorated today. Between 1940 and 1945 over 1 and a half million people of numerous nationalities perished there. The camp was liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27th, 1945. Official delegations from 40 states are taking part in today’s commemorations as well as over two thousand survivors and young people from all over the world.

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Today we remember - or if we are too young we try to imagine.

Somehow we have to build a better world.

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Warsaw, Jan. 24: President Aleksander Kwasniewski signed a new minorities law permitting the official use of minority languages in communities where they are spoken by at least 20 percent of the population. The new law also allows minority-language versions of place and street names. To-date solutions in this respect have proven ineffective. There was no clear definition of ethnic minorities, neither did the legislation list how minorities are to exercise their rights", Kwasniewski said. According to minority representatives the new law had a symbolic character and would change little in minority life.

Warsaw, Jan. 24: Poland's support for Ukraine must now include moves which are visible for Ukrainians on a mass scale, Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld said adding he had in mind actions designed to make it easier for Ukrainians to cross the border or to work in Poland. According to Rotfeld, Ukraine needs material moves and not only spiritual and moral support. The Polish minister stressed the role Ukrainians had to play in transformations in their own country. Rotfeld announced that President Aleksander Kwasniewski will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The relations between Poland and Russia are good enough to hold a bilateral meeting during which it will be possible to speak in an open way, he stressed. President Putin is coming to Poland to attend the commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp liberation on January 27.

Warsaw, Jan. 24: Former inmates of Nazi concentration camps will sign a funding act of the International Education Centre about Auschwitz and the Holocaust during commemorations of the 60the anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation. A related draft will be examined by the Council of Ministers. The founding act was adopted unanimously at the 9th Session of the International Auschwitz Council. The centre will be housed by the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in the close vicinity of the former Nazi camp. That way it will be included in the system of guided tours, in the logic of demonstrating archival materials, using library and drawing on all type of the institution experience.

Bielsko-Biala, Jan. 24: An exhibition of works by Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum will open in the Oswiecim Culture Centre on January 27 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp liberation. Felix Nussbaum was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. He was forty years old. The exhibition "Do not let my pictures die" has been prepared by the "Peace Towns" of Oswiecim in Poland and Osnabrueck in Germany in cooperation with Hannover. The exhibition will be open until February 17. Felix Nussbaum, born in Osnabrueck in 1904, studied fine and applied art in Hamburg and Berlin in the 1920s. At the end of the decade, and at the beginning of the 1930s, he had already enjoyed some success with his exhibitions in Berlin. His family and self portraits, as well as his paintings of towns and landscapes which appeared around this time were influenced by the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Rousseau. In 1931, Nussbaum achieved his artistic breakthrough with the painting "The crazy place". In 1932, in recognition of his work, Nussbaum was awarded a Villa-Massimo scholarship in Rome. The seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 delayed his return to Germany. From this time onward, together with his wife-to-be Felka Platek, Nussbaum travelled through Italy, France and Belgium. In 1937 the couple took a flat in Brussels. After German army entered Belgium in 1940, Nussbaum was arrested and interned in the camp Saint Cyprien in southern France. He escaped from barracks in Bordeaux and in 1942 he disappeared with his wife in Brussels. While in hiding, every painting he created dealt with the fate of the Jews and gave him hope that he would survive. Nussbaum's best known paintings are "Self portrait with Jewish identity card" and "Triumph of Death", his last work. In 1944, Nussbaum and his wife were arrested, deported to Auschwitz and killed. The Felix Nussbaum Collection in Osnabrueck was started in 1970. The largest special exhibition of one hundered of Nussbaum's paintings took place in the Osnabruek Museum of Cultural History in 1990. His paintings were shown in Paris and Barcelona as part of the 1994 exhibition "La ville, art et architecture en Europe 1870 - 1933", at the Venice Biennal in 1995 and the exhibition "Art an Power - Europe under the Dictators" at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1995.

Warsaw, Jan. 24: Polish Television will be the only producer of a tv broadcast of the main ceremonies of the observances of the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp liberation. Seventy public tv stations affiliated to the European Broadcasters Union as well as BBC, Reuters, Rai have already declared their will to cooperate. TVP will begin its broadcast of the central ceremonies on January 27 with "Let my People Live" International Forum organised by the European Jewish Congress and held in the Slowacki Theatre in Cracow. A special programme composed of addresses, prayers and a concert will be aired from the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. There will be also a programme on the history of the camp. A live transmission will be available through the Internet (itvp.pl) to the Internet users all over the world. Apart from live broadcasts of the central ceremonies, TVP will present documentaries, feature films and other programs connected with the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp liberation anniversary.

Warsaw, Jan. 24: The funeral of the late Jan Nowak-Jezioranski to be held at Warsaw's Powazki cemetery on January 26. A book of condolences will be displayed at Warsaw's Townhall and at the Royal Castle's courtyard where the coffin will be laid out in state before being carried in procession to St. John's Cathedral for the funeral mass. The main funeral ceremonies at the cemetery, which will start at noon, will be attended by President Aleksander Kwasniewski who will deliver a speech. The funeral mass and the following ceremonies will be broadcast live nationwide by public TV Channel 1. At the initiative of the Jewish Warsaw congregation prayers for the deceased will be held at Warsaw's synagogue. Jan Nowak Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance, a journalist and long-time head of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe died in Warsaw last week at the age of 92.

Brussels, Jan. 24: The rate of unemployment will go up to 19.4-19.5 pc in January, from 19.1 pc recorded in December, 2004, according to deputy PM Jerzy Hausner. "I will be glad (..) if my prediction proves true. This will mean progress compared to last year," Hausner told. In December there were 2,999,600 unemployed people, 5.5 pc fewer than in December of 2003. Unemployment declined steadily last year. Its rate was 20.6 pc in January, 2004, and the number of jobless reached 3.3 m at the time.

Bialystok, Jan. 24: Law and Justice (PiS) head Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that combining the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections with the EU constitution referendum would amount to cheating on Poles. He also said that asking Poles whether they were against the EU constitution or for it was "an abuse", since the Poles did not know the document and the consequences of its adoption. He added that an average politician also did not know the contents of the document. Asked about the delegalisation of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) planned by PiS, Kaczynski said a motion to this effect was being drafted and would be filed in a matter of weeks. PiS leader also voiced concern that a massive declassifying of communist-era personal files kept by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) could jeopardize the process of vetting public figures under the existing vetting law.

Warsaw, Jan. 24: The new year has brought a slight improvement in social moods. The number of positive opinion about general situation in Poland has gone up by 4 points since December to 30 percent in January. At the same time negative opinions decreased by 4 points to 58 percent, according to recent studies of the Public Opinion Survey Centre CBOS. CBOS estimates that general situation in the country is considered definitely as bad, yet worth noting is the fact that the percentage of positive opinions has grown for the first time in five months. As regards the economic situation CBOS noted above all a drop of critical opinions to 46 percent this January from 50 percent last December. According to CBOS such law level of negative opinions has been noted for the first time since 1999. At the same time 13 percent of respondents claim the economic situation is good. CBOS says that better assessment of the economic situation is accompanied by higher assessment of the situation in work establishments as 44 percent of vocationally active respondents believe the situation of their workplaces is good. Assessment of general living standards and financial situation of families has not changed and the percentage of those satisfied (26 percent) is only slightly higher that that of displeased respondents (22 pct.) The poll was conducted between January 7 and 10 on a representative sample of 1089 group of adult Poles.

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During the times of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in communist Poland, the country's few remaining Jews preferred to keep their identities well hidden, to the extent that they often didn't even tell their children they were Jewish. Malgorzata only discovered she was a Jew when she was a teenager. She is now working for Beit, a Jewish organisation in Warsaw. Bogdan Zaryn talks to Malgorzata about her rediscovered Jewish roots.

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Ecumenical Servce opens Ceremonies in Auschwitz

An ecumenical service in the intention of the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp opened the celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. The service is attended by catholic priests, rabbis and the camp survivors. Representatives of many nations have read the psalm 122 Prayer for peace .
Meanwhile guests arrive at the nearby southern city of Krakow to attend the Thursday ceremonies. Official delegations from 40 states are to take part in the commemorations as well as over two thousand survivors and young people from all over the world. Israeli president Moshe Kacav has already arrived in Krakow. Ukraine’s president Victor Yushchenko is arriving this afternoon, US deputy head of state Dick Cheney, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin is expected to arrive this evening. The Russian head of state is to meet with president Aleksander Kwasniewski. The politicians are to discuss political and economic issues.

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Poland Bids Farewell to Jan Nowak Jezioranski

Poland bid farewell to Jan Nowak Jezioranski the legendary courier from Warsaw who died last Friday at the age of 92.
Early this morning Varsovains came to pay tribute to the late founder of Radio Free Europe and one of the legends of the fight for free, democratic Poland. Flowers were laid at his coffin which was set up in the courtyard of the Warsaw Royal castle. Later the coffin was transported to St.John’s cathedral and a mass was said .At noon burial ceremonies started at Warsaw’s oldest Powazki cemetery. Jan Nowak Jezioranski was be laid in his family grave.
“Despite the forced 45 years of emigration Jezioranski never left Poland” said Aleksander Kwasniewski in his speech at the Warsaw cathedral. “Poland was his obsession, longing and a great challenge.. Jezioranski devoted his life to fight for a free and democratic country” said the Polish head of state. During the mass a letter of John Paull II was read. The Pope wrote about the courage, truth and faith which characterized the life of Jan Nowak Jezioranski. The Pontiff wrote of his admiration for Jezioranski’s faith and love for his homeland.

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