A tiny selection from recent pro-Palestinian student protests in Warsaw.
Students at several Warsaw universities loudly demand them to cut ties with Israeli institutions supporting genocide in Palestine. Since the university authorities seem not be listening despite rounds of negotiations, the occupation protest at a park near the university goes on. More universitities across the country are joining in as we speak.
For me, a noob documentary snapshotter, it's a huge lesson on activism, solidarity and principles. I've never received a lesson like this when I was their age.
The Ukrainian authorities have formally asked their #NATO allies to help them, from outside Ukrainian territory, to shoot down Russian missiles, a request that has already begun to be analyzed by the Government in #Warsaw.
“The issue is being weighed from a legal and technical point of view, but no decisions have been made,” said Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski, noting that the request had been received directly from kyiv.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's representative to NATO, Natalia Galibarenko, confirmed in an interview published this Thursday by Ukrinform that kyiv has made this same request within the Atlantic alliance. #Ukraine#Russia#WW3 huffingtonpost.es/global/polon…
Tomorrow I will travel from #Munich to #Warsaw by train. Because I can. No need to fly. ICE from Munich to Berlin, Eurocity from Berlin to Warsaw. #CrossBorderRail
🔴 Special services in #Poland have discovered and removed bugging devices in a room where cabinet ministers were due to meet
The weekly cabinet meeting normally takes place in the prime minister’s office in #Warsaw
But Tuesday's session was relocated to the southern city of #Katowice because several ministers, including Prime Minister #DonaldTusk, were due to attend a major economic conference there
Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: The 50,000 Jews remaining in Warsaw began a desperate and heroic attempt to resist Nazi deportation to extermination camps. Their armed insurgency became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. There had been over 3 million Jews living in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation. The Nazis rounded them up and forced them into crowded ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto had 250,000-300,000 Jews living in abominable conditions. Roughly this same number of Jews were slaughtered at the Treblinka concentration camp within the two months the Nazis started deporting them. The Jews managed to stockpile Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, military uniforms, and even a few pistols and some explosives. However, the resistance was crushed by the Nazis on May 16.
24 January 1932 | A Pole, Bogdan Bartnikowski, was born in Warsaw.
He arrived at Auschwitz in a transport from the Warsaw Uprising on 12 August 1944
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He was evacuated from Auschwitz & survived the war.
Today he celebrates his 92nd birthday.
19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.
In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.