16 Mar 2025 18:30:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}Chojniczanka Chojnice won 3–2 over KKS 1925 Kalisz on Sun Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match The current head to head record for the teams are KKS 1925 Kalisz 2 win(s) Have scored 6 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between KKS 1925 Kalisz and Chojniczanka Chojnice on Sun 16 Mar 2025 18:30:00 GMT?Chojniczanka Chojnice won 3–2 over KKS 1925 Kalisz on Sun 16 Mar 2025 18:30:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches KKS 1925 Kalisz is playing home against Chojniczanka Chojnice on Sun Sep 3, 2024 | History Poland has conducted a state funeral for over 700 mostly unidentified victims of mass executions carried out by the German occupiers during World War Two in an area that became known as the “Valley of Death” researchers from the state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) found over a tonne of human bones buried there on the outskirts of the town of Chojnice in northern Poland They have now been buried in 188 coffins at a state funeral in Chojnice attended by local and national officials including a representative of President Andrzej Duda 188 trumien ze szczątkami 700 polskich ofiar niemieckiego mordu na Pomorzu – ofiar Zbrodni Pomorskiej – było dziś krzykiem prawdy o II wojnie światowej 🇵🇱 @ipngovpl, Chojnice. pic.twitter.com/hWi26Kh7Yo — Karol Nawrocki (@NawrockiKn) September 2, 2024 I convey my respect to the IPN and all people of goodwill involved in the effort to discover the truth and [ensure] a dignified burial,” said Dariusz Waldemar Dudek “Let us be sure that as long as we live the victims’ memory will not perish.” In a letter from defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz the minister described Chojnice as “one of the symbols of the unimaginable tragedy and brutality that our homeland experienced at that time” especially in the face of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine Because if we do not draw conclusions from history this evil may repeat itself again,” he added Kosiniak-Kamysz also announced plans to build a monument dedicated to those who were killed in the “Valley of Death” It is believed that up to 2,000 people may have been executed there including during the “Intelligenzaktion Pommern” a German operation to eradicate the Polish intelligentsia in the area “These death pits were also supposed to be pits of amnesia,” said Karol Nawrocki who thanked prosecutors from his organisation for continuing their pursuit of justice for such victims “They died of hatred – of German hatred of Polishness cultivated for two centuries.” the IPN identified the location of the mass executions after which the remains were found during archaeological work undertaken between 2021 and 2024 Shell casings and bullets used by German military and police units were also unearthed Many of the victims were killed in the autumn of 1939, shortly after Germany’s invasion of Poland, when the occupiers sought to eradicate highly educated members of society. Others were executed in 1945, during the final stages of the war. Some victims were also mentally ill people Sunday’s funeral took place on the 85th anniversary of the German invasion that started World War Two a higher proportion than in any other country Excavations in the “Valley of Death” (photo: IPN/Daniel Frymark) The IPN has so far managed to identify 120 of the victims. One of them was Irena Szydłowska, a member of the Home Army Poland’s main underground resistance force She was identified in 2021 thanks to a wedding ring found alongside her remains disbelief that after 76 years we find out something about our grandmother,” her granddaughter told radio station Weekend FM ahead of the funeral the family had been trying to determine what happened to Szydłowska after she was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1945 Los babci poznała dzięki obrączce odnalezionej w chojnickiej Dolinie Śmierci. "Będziemy ją przekazywać z pokolenia na pokolenie". Wnuczka Ireny Szydłowskiej, łączniczki AK, Mariola Nawrocka z Grudziądza opowiada Weekend FM historię swojej babcihttps://t.co/tHHZ2xgjl9 — Weekend FM (@weekendfmpl) September 3, 2024 Main image credit: Rafał Leśkiewicz/X Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications , , Karol Nawrocki even suggested that the state security services were involved in creating the scandal , , The 1,200 square metre national symbol was unfurled on the beach in Międzyzdroje , , The proportion of Poles saying the US has a positive influence on the world has also fallen to its lowest recorded level Apr 30, 2025 | , , , That response will include “large Polish and NATO exercises in Poland” Apr 29, 2025 | , , , Those employed in Poland work on average the third-longest hours in the European Union Apr 28, 2025 | , , , , Westinghouse and Bechtel were first chosen in 2022 as partners on the 192 billion zloty ($51 billion) project please consider helping us to continue and expand it [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Notes From Poland | Design jurko studio | Code by 2sides.pl Senior Research Fellow at the Global Europe Centre ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR Weronika Strzyżyńska is currently studying journalism at Goldsmiths as a Scott Trust Bursary recipient She  has written on issues immigration and Brexit for New Statesman and Prospect Agnieszka Wądołowska is managing editor of Notes from Poland She has previously worked for Gazeta.pl and Tokfm.pl and contributed to Gazeta Wyborcza ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland and assistant professor of history at the Pedagogical University of Krakow The Independent and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland.He is also Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge Stanley has spent 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unique exhibition will present the results of field work during which scientists from the Institute of Archaeology and prosecutors from the Investigative Division of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk found the remains of approximately 700 Poles murdered near Chojnice in the autumn of 1939 and at the end of January 1945 The Pomeranian Crime of 1939 is a term that refers to the mass crimes committed in Gdańsk Pomerania in the first months of World War II One of the approximately 400 execution sites The mentally ill who resided in the so-called National Social Welfare Institutions in Chojnice constituted the second group of people murdered near Chojnice All the residents – at least 218 people were murdered between 20 and 23 October 1939 15 representatives of the local Jewish community were also murdered Entire families were murdered at that time – including children A column of several hundred Polish prisoners was brought to Chojnice at the end of January 1945 They were all murdered and their bodies were then burned to cover up the traces of the crime of whom families and loved ones recognized 53 victims The Pomeranian Crime was a planned extermination campaign on the Polish civilian population carried out by the Germans in the pre-war Pomeranian Voivodeship in over 400 towns Based on exhumation documentation and name lists approximately 16,000 victims were identified from 20 to even 40,000 people were murdered where at least 10,000 people died is the largest place of execution The full number of victims is unknown because the Germans destroyed the documentation and burned the bodies Dr Dawid Kobiałka (photo: Mateusz Kowalski The exhibition will feature 60 photos documenting 5 years of investigation conducted in the Death Valley, as reported by Dr Dawid Kobiałka from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Lodz We should remember that there is no such thing as eternal oblivion and a perfect crime This is demonstrated by the activities of the Institute of National Remembrance the prosecutor's office and the archaeological research that was conducted in the Death Valley The remains of approximately 700 victims of German crimes from World War II were found on the northern outskirts of Chojnice The discovery was made during exhumation work conducted in the years 2021-2024 by the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk Eagle from an official's cap found in a mass grave in the Death Valley (photo by D The investigation by the Institute of National Remembrance was initiated after a team of archaeologists led by Dr Dawid Kobiałka discovered mass graves in the area during archaeological works conducted between 9 May and 15 December 2020 The opening of the exhibition will be held on 3 April 2025 (Thursday) at 12:00 p.m in the Council Room of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Lodz (room 103) During the first part of the event the results of archaeological works conducted in the Chojnice Death Valley will be presented there will be a presentation of the exhibition in front of the building of the Institute of History of the University of Lodz The exhibition will be available for viewing from 3 April of the current year until the end of June 2025 The project is financed by the National Science Centre under contract no. UMO-2021/43/D/HS3/00033. Place of the event: Harcmistrza Aleksandra Kamińskiego 27a, 90-219 Łódź Date and time of the event: 03 April 2025 (Thursday) 12:00 - 14:00 fax: 00 48 42/665 57 71, 00 48 42/635 40 43 The UŁ Multiportal project co-financed by the European Union funds as part of the NCBR competition Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the website to function properly. Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website. President of the National Remembrance Institute He is a candidate in the 2025 presidential election other articles by this author The German executioners did everything they could to wipe out the traces of their crimes in the Valley of Death at Chojnice we have unearthed the remains of the victims from unmarked pits and are now giving them a respectful burial where it had been buried for several dozen years That sparse information was enough to establish the owner’s identity she was arrested in Grudziądz on 17 January 1945 by Gestapo officers she was taken by the Germans on a transport bound for Bydgoszcz She was only 25 years old and had a son who was less than five years old Szydłowska is one of the many Polish victims whose bodies were discovered in the Igielskie Fields on the northern outskirts of Chojnice – a place now known as the Valley of Death Twice the Germans massacred Poles here: in the bloody autumn of 1939 and again at the end of the occupation .The nature of the war unleashed by Germany on 1 September 1939 was criminal from the start The authorities in Berlin intended to destroy not only the Polish State but also the conquered nation […] We must act with the utmost severity […] This war is a war of annihilation,’ Führer Adolf Hitler ordered in a speech to his supreme military commanders on 22 August 1939 head of the Security Service and the Security Police issued a similar order in early September: ‘People are to be shot or hanged immediately the clergy and the Jews must be liquidated.’ these instructions were implemented in Pomerania with particular zeal a paramilitary organisation composed of local Germans and overseen by S.S The Selbstschutz and other German formations targeted the Polish elite Jews and patients of psychiatric hospitals the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 – as the mass extermination is now known – resulted in at least 14,000 to 16,000 deaths with about 500 in the Chojnice district alone The real number of victims is undoubtedly higher The German offenders made sure that no evidence of their crimes remained by destroying records and burning the bodies of the murdered when the Valley of Death in Chojnice was once again drowned in blood The Germans executed prisoners who were being driven west in an evacuation column mostly people arrested at the turn of 1944-1945 in Bydgoszcz Historian Czesław Madajczyk estimated the number of victims at 1500 the authorities in Berlin speak of moral responsibility for the past they avoid the question of financial compensation for the damage and injustice done to Poland instead of providing multi-billion reparations they were only willing to offer around 200 million euros to the surviving ‘victims of National Socialism.’ These accounts fail to include people like Irena Szydłowska’s granddaughters So is the fact that the current government in Warsaw wants to simply give up on reparations the Institute of National Remembrance remains and continues to fulfil its statutory tasks IPN prosecutors have found several mass graves in Valley of Death in Chojnice with the remains of around 700 Polish citizens murdered by the Germans along with numerous objects belonging to the victims 85 years after the outbreak of the Second World War it is finally time to give our compatriots a dignified burial a state funeral for the victims of German crimes will take place in Chojnice the remains will be accompanied to the local cemetery for Victims of Nazi Crimes Well over a hundred coffins will make a powerful cry of a history that has never come to an end Karol Nawrocki Sign up to the weekly newsletter in Polish and receive all our important essays and commentaries every Sunday morning Miesięcznik opinii "Wszystko Co Najważniejsze" oczekuje na Państwa w EMPIKach w całym kraju oraz wysyłkowo Polish diplomats made a daring attempt to save thousands of Jews at least several hundred people were saved from death Our world is facing multiple global crises that have significant impact on infrastructure systems Joseph Stalin drank a toast to Adolf Hitler 'The myth that Poland and Poles actively and massively participated in the Holocaust should be treated in the same way as the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism - as a manipulation aimed at shifting responsibil.. Polish universalism is somewhat akin to German universalism except that it always looks to the east of Europe The German crimes of the Second World War cannot be reduced to Nazism or the Holocaust Without a convergence of political views on this issue genuine Polish-German reconciliation will be difficult 700 armoured vehicles and 20 operational-tactical missile launchers out of Poland all the countries in our region that have joined the EU and undertaken the necessary reforms are catching up with th.. Wszystko Co NajważniejszeTygodnik opinii wydawany przez Instytut Nowych Mediów Konto PREMIUM to przestrzeń dla najbardziej zaangażowanych Czytelników „Wszystko Co Najważniejsze” Jeszcze bardziej wyjątkowe teksty i dodatkowe usługi Obecnie Konto PREMIUM jest kontem bezpłatnym WIĘCEJ Death Valley in Chojnice is the site of mass crimes committed by the Germans during the Second World War together with a team of experts supervised by dr Dawid Kobiałka has been carrying out archaeological and investigative works in order to find mass graves of the victims and to clarify the circumstances of the crimes this has led to the discovery of mass graves of several hundred people and the securing of almost 5,000 pieces of material evidence of the crimes committed The latest findings are the result of the work carried out as part of an international and interdisciplinary team of experts supervised by dr Dawid Kobiałka who is implementing “The Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939” scientific project financed by the National Science Centre the Prosecutor and the team of experts undertook comprehensive procedural activities aimed at finding all victims of mass murders committed in this area by functionaries of German formations in the autumn of 1939 This year’s activities were aimed at revealing and examining military trenches dug by the Polish Army in the summer of 1939 from approximately 20 October to the end of November 1939 were used by the Germans to carry out mass executions on the local population According to archival materials several hundred Poles had lost their lives within a month They were representatives of the local intelligentsia: the clergy the fields where the executions took place were called Death Valley a section of the military trenches was also used to hide the bodies of at least 218 people with psychiatric disabilities from the Social Welfare Institution in Chojnice Field research was supported by desk-based research geophysical prospections and metal detector surveys The excavations covered an area of ​​several square kilometres ranging from several to several dozen meters long up to two meters deep and several meters wide Thanks to the modern archaeological research methodology used The first of them is an almost 100-meter long section of trenches in which – according to the discovered artefacts – the bodies of at least several dozen representatives of the local intelligentsia were hidden Poles were murdered with handguns – a large collection of shell casings and bullets from German short-calibre 7.65x17 mm Browning and 9 mm Parabellum firearms were found in the mass grave and its vicinity One Mauser rifle bullet was also found in the death pit The second mass grave revealed in 2024 is the place where the bodies of murdered patients from the Social Welfare Institution were hidden Some of the witnesses testifying after the war about mass crimes committed in Chojnice and its vicinity claimed that in the autumn of 1939 the Germans had begun to transport people with psychiatric disabilities of the Social Welfare Institution to nearby fields An estimated total of 218-249 people were killed the bodies were hidden in the trenches and then buried in order to cover up the traces of the crime The crimes were researched by historians as well For example Tadeusz Kut’s work “The Land of Bydgoszcz in the Shadow of the Swastika” includes the information on the course of execution of patients of the Institution in Chojnice which was a branch of the psychiatric hospital in Kocborowo the Germans transported 219 patients of the hospital by car to a place called “The Valley” “Dantean scenes” were said to have taken place there “several hundred other people from Chojnice and the surrounding area as well as a group of thirty Polish officers They were killed with shots to the back of the head and then dragged with ropes around their necks to the trenches which the German Nazi soldiers did not cover at all They limited themselves only to erecting a plaque at the execution site with […] an inscription that read: Hier ruhen arbeitsscheue Wesen (Here lie people afraid of work)” Just before the execution he was sent to town to buy goods (later he was said to have worked as a butcher’s assistant in Chojnice) The German administrator of the Chojnice psychiatric hospital personally supervised the extermination of the patients Human remains were scattered within a dozen or so meters The Germans intentionally chose the part where the trench reached a depth of 1.5 to over 2 metres This was the level where the remains of the victims were found the human skeletal remains of at least 80 people and the skeletons of about 50 people were recovered from the ground Four clusters of bones without an anatomical arrangement were uncovered The skeletal remains were placed on their backs or on their bellies Traces of injuries were revealed on some of the skulls and some long bones of the limbs; they are cracked with entry/exit holes visible on the skulls A decision to continue exhumation works will be made in the near future Prosecutors of the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk plan to carry out similar activities also in several other selected places in the vicinity of Gdańsk where mass graves of the victims of the Pomeranian crime of 1939 may be revealed The Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk asks all people whose relatives lost their lives in Chojnice and the Chojnice county at the hands of officers and collaborators of the Third German Reich to contact the IPN Branch in Gdańsk in order to share information about their relatives and possibly donate genetic material for the purposes of identification tests Contact: Institute of National Remembrance Branch in Gdańsk The opening of the exhibition "Archaeology of Crime – German Crimes in the Death Valley in Chojnice" which was located in front of the building at hm This unique exhibition presents the results of field work during which scientists from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Lodz and prosecutors from the Investigative Division of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk found the remains of approximately 700 Poles murdered near Chojnice – in the autumn of 1939 and at the end of January 1945 "Archaeology of Crime – German Crimes in the Death Valley in Chojnice" is an exhibition that presents scientific works and investigations into the mass crimes that took place during World War II near Chojnice (Pomeranian Voivodeship) It is one of the results of the implementation of an international and multidisciplinary scientific project entitled "Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939" at the Institute of Archaeology The exhibition features 60 photos documenting 5 years of investigation conducted in the Death Valley, as reported by Dr Dawid Kobiałka from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Lodz the prosecutor's office and the archaeological research that was conducted in the Death Valley  working under the supervision of prosecutor Tomasz Jankowski from the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk have found the remains of approximately 700 Poles murdered near Chojnice The discoveries constitute some of the most important archaeological works carried out in Poland and Europe in recent years They also show the fundamental role of archaeology in the context of researching German mass crimes from World War II The exhibition shows the scientific process – how these field studies were conducted and what discoveries they led to The exhibition can be seen from 3 April until the end of June 2025 The project is financed by the National Science Centre under contract no MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION TVP3 MATERIAL ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Information: Dr Dawid Kobiałka Photos: Mateusz Kowalski (Faculty of Philosophy and History Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the website to function properly Statistics cookies collect information anonymously This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website I was fortunate to visit Chojnice in May 2014, in connection with the publication of the Polish translation of my Nietzsche and the Nazis book My visit was made possible by the Fuhrmann Foundation and Mayor Arseniusz Finster One was the beauty of Chojnice — its historical buildings and central square have been lovingly restored and enterprise seems to be flourishing well positioned to participate in broader European and world culture in the twenty-first Also impressive to me was the public discussion of my book under the auspices of the Furhmann Foundation The give-and-take of the discussion was enjoyable to me as the quality of the questions was high and the level of knowledge of the participants was strong It is to Chojnice’s credit that it has regular public forums where the great questions of European history and philosophy are raised and debated I also was fortunate in meeting — and would like to give thanks to — Dr. Przemysław Zientkowski and the intellectual collaborator for my visit to Chojnice That sounds like a wonderful trip – “trip” being an inadequate word There may well be far more receptiveness to your ideas there as they have lived through those you challenge in their right and left incarnations Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" 07 Mar 2025 15:15:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}LKS Lodz II won 2–1 over Chojniczanka Chojnice on Fri The current head to head record for the teams are Chojniczanka Chojnice 2 win(s) Have scored 7 goals in their last 5 matches Who won between Chojniczanka Chojnice and LKS Lodz II on Fri 07 Mar 2025 15:15:00 GMT?LKS Lodz II won 2–1 over Chojniczanka Chojnice on Fri 07 Mar 2025 15:15:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 6 goals in their last 5 matches Chojniczanka Chojnice is playing home against LKS Lodz II on Fri Aug 19, 2021 | History Archaeologists have unearthed a mass grave in Poland that they say “documents evidence of the genocide that took place” against Poles by Nazi Germany during World War Two In an article published yesterday in the journal Antiquity a team of researchers led by Dawid Kobiałka of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) described their grim discoveries at a site in what they call the “Valley of Death” That is the name locals gave to an area near the town of Chojnice in northern Poland where a large number of mass killings took place in the aftermath of the German invasion and occupation of Poland in September 1939 Remains of Polish soldiers killed on first day of WWII identified through DNA tests The authors report that around 30,000-35,000 Polish citizens were executed at 400 sites in October and November 1939 alone in the region of Pomerania They suggest that these were “the prelude to later Nazi genocides” they focused on a site where a massacre took place near the end of the war Eyewitness accounts indicate that around 600 Polish prisoners were murdered by the Gestapo who then burned their bodies to cover up the evidence Following archival research and non-invasive scanning of the area the archaeologists excavated eight trenches used by the Germans to bury the bodies They discovered over one tonne of human bones Prosimy o kontakt z #IPNGdańsk @ipngovpl wszystkie osoby, których krewni stracili życie z rąk funkcjonariuszy i współpracowników III Rzeszy na terenie Chojnic oraz powiatu chojnickiego. Kontakt i szczegółowe informacje ⤵️https://t.co/1ErRfdVGeY pic.twitter.com/dM22Xmkytz — IPN Gdańsk (@IPNGdansk) June 7, 2021 but I’ve never experienced anything like this,” Kobiałka Personal effects of people killed in both 1939 and 1945 were also found as well as objects left by the German perpetrators including over 400 bullet and shell casings Ballistics experts have identified them as types commonly used by the Gestapo and German police units Preserved fragments of wood confirmed witness testimonies that the bodies were doused in a flammable substance and set alight Archival research indicates that those killed were members of the underground Polish resistance Contents of police chest buried for 75 years after German invasion of Poland restored The researchers now hope that a combination of that archival research and planned DNA sampling will allow them to identify some of the victims the remains will be reburied and the site turned into an official war cemetery “We hope to be able to tell some of the families what happened to their relatives who were assumed to have vanished without trace in Chojnice in January 1945,” they write Their research has been supported by Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Institute of National Remembrance A gold wedding ring found during excavations has already allowed them to identify one victim as Irena Szydłowska Her son died in 2004 never knowing his mother’s fate but prosecutors have located his daughter and the ring will be returned to her The underground photographer who chronicled the Warsaw Uprising The magazine also notes that the research is the first to systematically apply archaeological techniques to Second World War mass graves outside concentration and death camps around six million Polish citizens were killed constituting around 90% of Poland’s pre-war Jewish population The majority of the remaining three million were ethnic Poles many of whom died in concentration camps and mass shootings “Despite the Nazis’ efforts to hide their crimes preserved to the present day and discovered in 2020 bears witness to the massacre and tells the story 75 years later,” write the authors of the new study Over 150 Jewish tombstones used for road construction in WW2 unearthed in Polish town , , The project will strengthen national security and regional infrastructure , , , Figures from PiS have dismissed the claims against Karol Nawrocki as “lies” [email protected] Dec 8, 2022 | Politics the leader of Poland’s ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has warned that “we will destroy” those involved in vulgar protests against the government During a speech to PiS supporters in the town of Chojnice Kaczyński referred to opponents of his party who protest under an eight-star logo (***** *** meaning “F**k PiS”) and who shout “W*********ć” Such slogans became widespread during mass protests in 2020 against a near-total ban on abortion in particular those at which Kaczyński speaks where protesters outside held up signs bearing the eight-star logo one heckler interrupted Kaczyński’s speech Kaczyński w Chojnicach. Co zrobili zwolennicy opozycji? #wieszwięcej Zobacz więcej: https://t.co/Bn8apjz6Lo pic.twitter.com/4TwpycNy8N — tvp.info 🇵🇱 (@tvp_info) December 8, 2022 that word starting with ‘w’,” said Kaczyński in Chojnice Such “plain rudeness [is meant] to reduce our society to the level of the lumpenproletariat.” “That is the goal of these people…[who believe that] Poland cannot be a strong nation because our neighbours do not like it,” he continued “We will have a strong state and we will destroy these people.” Nerwy puszczają. Dobrze słyszymy na końcu, "i zniszczymy tych ludzi"? pic.twitter.com/oIj1TCjLTE — Szkło Kontaktowe (@SzkKontaktowe) December 8, 2022 “The policy of our predecessors was a policy of subordination to Germany that is de facto to Russia,” said the PiS chairman “We don’t want to be under the boot – that is the fundamental difference between us and our opponents – neither the German boot “Such people are involved in degrading Poland through this method of political struggle in order to introduce violence into public life,” he added Poles have choice between “Polish” ruling party and “German” opposition, says Kaczyński Main image credit: Jakub Porzycki / Agencja Wyborcza.pl [email protected] Study researcher Dawid Kobiałka during an excavation in Death Valley (A) Study author Dawid Kobiałka interviews Urszula Steinke who lost her father in 1939 in Death Valley; (B) Alojzy Słomiński the father of Urszula Steinke; (C) An interview with Aleksandra Lubińska who lost her father in 1939 in Death Valley; and (D) Władysław Kręcki Among the victims were members of the Polish resistance Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a mass grave that the Nazis tried to destroy at the end of World War II filled with the remains of about 500 individuals is linked to the horrific "Pomeranian Crime" that took place in Poland's pre-war Pomerania province when the Nazis occupied the country in 1939 The Nazis killed up to 35,000 people in Pomerania at the beginning of the war and they returned in 1945 to kill even more people as well as to hide evidence of the prior massacres by exhuming and burning the bodies of victims.  archaeologists have now found abundant evidence of one of these mass graves after examining archives interviewing locals and conducting extensive archaeological surveys Related: Photos: Escape tunnel at Holocaust death site So many people were killed in 1939 and 1945 in one area of Pomerania near the outskirts of the town of Chojnice recalled seeing that "a column of approximately 600 Polish prisoners from Bydgoszcz was taken to Death Valley during the second half of January 1945," the researchers wrote in the study and the witness speculated that the bodies of the victims were burned to cover up the evidence." An aerial photo of Death Valley taken in July 2020.(Image credit: D Frymark; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)A researcher uses a metal detector to search for artifacts at the mass grave site.(Image credit: D Frymark; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)After the war exhumations at that spot in Death Valley unearthed the remains of 168 people But it was evident from the exhumation reports and the witness' testimony that there were more burials to be found Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox "It was commonly known that not all mass graves from 1939 were found and exhumed and the grave of those killed in 1945 was not exhumed either," study lead author Dawid Kobiałka an archaeologist and cultural anthropologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences Kobiałka and his colleagues used noninvasive techniques to study the area including with lidar (light detection and ranging) which uses lasers shot from an aircraft flying overhead to map the topography of the ground The lidar work revealed trenches that the Polish army had dug in 1939 in anticipation of a war with the Third Reich the Nazis used these trenches to hide the bodies of their victims "Executions took place at the trenches," they wrote in the study "The victims fell into the trenches or their bodies were thrown there by the perpetrators the team performed surveys on the soil underground with ground-penetrating radar electromagnetic field analysis and electrical resistivity and found many anomalies hidden in the soil underground Metal-detector surveys also revealed many artifacts which led the researchers to excavate eight of the trenches shell casings and charred wood that was likely used to burn the bodies.  Photos of (A-B) the funeral of people murdered in Death Valley; (C) the gateway to the Cemetery of the Victims of Nazi Crimes in Chojnice; and (D) one of the mass graves in the Cemetery of the Victims of Nazi Crimes in Chojnice.(Image credit: Historical-Ethnographic Museum of Julian Rydzkowski in Chojnice; D Kobiałka; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)Pieces of charred wood: (A-B) used to build a stack on which the bodies of victims were burned; (C) blue stains on the wood left by a flammable substance; (D) fragments of burned human bones preserved on the surface of the wood.(Image credit: J Rennwanz; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)The wedding ring of Irena Szydłowska a courier with the Polish resistance.(Image credit: A Barejko; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)Personal belongings from victims murdered at Death Valley in 1945 including (A) a wristwatch; (B) a badge with crest of Toruń; (C) a woman's earring; and (D) a holy medal.(Image credit: A Barejko; Antiquity Publications Ltd.)The team also found cremated bones and jewelry suggesting the victims were not robbed when they were killed The researchers identified the ring's owner as Irena Szydłowska "Her family was informed about the finding and the plan is to return the ring to them," Kobiałka said —25 grisly archaeological discoveries —Images: Missing Nazi diary resurfaces —Image gallery: WWII lard, relics revealed by storms Their historical investigation revealed that some of the killed prisoners were part of the Polish resistance "A series of specialized analyses of the finds is taking place right now," Kobiałka said "It is believed that more victims killed in Death Valley will be identified soon and their families will be informed about what really happened to their beloved ones."  The team also hopes to identify some of the victims with DNA analysis After the researchers are done examining the site "the remains will be reburied in Death Valley and the site will become an official war cemetery," they wrote in the study The study was published online Wednesday (Aug. 18) in the journal Antiquity Her work has appeared in The New York Times She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child Ancient jawbone dredged off Taiwan seafloor belongs to mysterious Denisovan Digital 'resurrection' of the Titanic sheds light on fateful night the ship tore apart PolandWarsaw: Poland held a state burial on Monday for over 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions The remains of these victims were recently discovered in the "Valley of Death" in northern Poland The ceremonies took place in the town of Chojnice beginning with a funeral Mass at the local basilica The victims were then laid to rest with military honors in a nearby cemetery Their remains were placed in 188 small wooden coffins each decorated with ribbons in Poland's national colors of white and red and top officials from the National Remembrance Institute "We want to restore the memory and dignity of the victims of the crimes in Chojnice." President Duda emphasized that the victims were killed solely because they were Polish and vowed that their memory would always be honored were exhumed between 2021 and 2024 from several mass graves on the outskirts of Chojnice Personal belongings and documents helped identify about 120 victims Historians have found that the Nazis began executing Polish civilians soon after invading the country on September 1 The remains of another 500 victims come from a January 1945 execution carried out as German forces were retreating Bullets and shells from German handguns were found in the graves Experts will continue to search the area for more mass graves related to the so-called Pomerania Crime The country also suffered significant damage to its infrastructure Such comments are punishable under cyber laws The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of readers and not that of Mathrubhumi The Pomeranian Massacre of 1939 is a term describing the mass murders of the Polish population in the first months of World War II in the pre-war Pomeranian Voivodeship thousands of people were murdered – clergy members of the Jewish community and the mentally ill The aim of Dr Dawid Kobiałka’s project was to discover previously unknown traces of this crime and to understand its contemporary legacy Watch a report from the archaeological excavations taking place in the summer of 2024 in Chojnice and learn more about the mass murder of residents of the National Social Welfare Institutions in Chojnice mass executions took place in the pre-war Pomeranian Voivodeship resulting in the deaths of 20 to 30 thousand people The number of victims in this region was twice as high as in other areas of pre-war Poland as well as the mentally ill and representatives of the Jewish community were buried in mass graves in order to erase the traces of the crime Dr Dawid Kobiałka’s research project attempts to analyse this tragic legacy by using an interdisciplinary approach combining the work of specialists in such fields as archaeology The Germans murdered Polish citizens in approximately 400 towns in the pre-war Pomeranian Voivodeship The idea of the project was to thoroughly research the past and present heritage of four places related to the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939 executions and mass graves were documented and their contemporary role and significance was analysed also constituted an important element of research historical and ethnographic approaches complemented verified and influenced each other in the course of the research work The project used forensic archaeology methods treating mass execution sites as archaeological sites personal belongings of victims and fragments of remains allow for the reconstruction of key aspects of these crimes and their consequences but also to reflect on how the legacy of these tragic events affects the present day It is a unique attempt to combine archaeological data with other sources – historical visual and material – in order to better understand and commemorate the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939 Dr Dawid Kobiałka is an archaeologist and a cultural anthropologist He is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Archaeology the project manager who is responsible for the implementation and coordination of all project tasks "Straszny swąd spalenizny – archeologiczne badania miejsca kaźni w chojnickiej Dolinie Śmierci" [The terrible stench of burning – archaeological research on the execution site in the Chojnice Death Valley]) He is an author of articles published in international scientific journals such as: "“Antiquity" "Journal of Contemporary Archeology" "International Journal of Historical Archeology" He was awarded the gold Medal Reipublicae Memoriae Meritu at the Pomeranian Congress of National Remembrance on 21 November 2024 The Reipublicae Memoriae Meritum Medal is used by the Institute of National Remembrance to honour those who work to permanently commemorate events and figures from the history of the Polish Nation in the years 1917–1990 and support the Institute of National Remembrance in its educational and prosecutor Tomasz Jankowski from the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk We had the opportunity to see with our own eyes the skeletons of the victims which were carefully and systematically described reconstructed the stories of the victims whose fate and their resting place remained unknown for decades The testimony to this one-day visit is a short report that synthetically shows the enormity of the work carried out by the researchers The report not only presents the details of the research methodology but also highlights the emotional dimension of the team's work It is an invitation to reflect on the difficult legacy of the 1939 Pomeranian Crime and a reminder of the duty of remembrance that rests on future generations Visit the project website (in Polish) Download the free exhibition catalogue: "Archeologia Zbrodni. Niemieckie zbrodnie w Chojnickiej Dolinie Śmierci" [Archaeology of Crime German crimes in the Chojnice Valley of Death]  Stay up to date. Follow the project profile on Facebook. Necroviolence in the archaeological evidence. Mass crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest, Poland and the materiality of Aktion 1005 – World Archaeology  Unearthing the shadows of history: Chemical traces ofSecond World War atrocities in the Szpęgawski Forest and Death Valley, Poland An Archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939: The Case of Mass Crimes in the Szpęgawski Forest (Poland) – Springer Nature  The film uses video materials and photos by Daniel Frymark as well as sources from the collections of the Institute of National Remembrance as well as those collected for the needs of the project The portrait photo of Dr Dawid Kobiałka was taken by Dr Bartosz Kałużny (Communications and PR Centre Edit: Michał Gruda (Communications and PR Centre The mission of the University of Lodz is to conduct reliable research and actively disseminate facts and research results so as to wisely educate future generations, be useful to society and courageously respond to the challenges of the modern world. Scientific excellence is always our best compass. Our values include: courage, curiosity, commitment, cooperation and respect Apprentice Jens Erik Eriksen in Kværner and Norway’s minister of petroleum and energy Tord Lien marked the construction start on the Johan Sverdrup utility and living quarters platform on the island of Stord “Johan Sverdrup is the biggest industrial project in modern times in Norway and will create considerable value for society for generations to come Today we are kicking off the construction of the utility and living quarters platform which is the second of four platform currently under construction in the first project phase,” says Kjetel Digre Statoil’s project director for Johan Sverdrup Statoil awarded a joint venture between Kværner and KBR the contract for engineering and construction of the topside for the utility and living quarters platform for the Johan Sverdrup field in June 2015 In 2012 Statoil awarded contracts for four years with options for three times two-year extension to Archer Stord is central in a comprehensive Johan Sverdrup project Kværner Stord will fabricate parts of the topside steel frame and will also assemble all parts for the utility and living quarters platform before the platform is installed on the field in 2019 At peak around 2000 Kværner employees will be involved in Johan Sverdrup deliveries Kværner’s sub-supplier Apply Leirvik on Stord will construct the accommodation module for the living quarters platform which will be the biggest on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) Kværner’s sub-supplier Apply Leirvik on Stord will construct the accommodation module for the living quarters platform The other modules for the utility and living quarters platform will be constructed at the Energomontaz Polnoc Gdynia (EPG) Mostostal Chojnice and Crist Offshore in Poland Detailed engineering is performed at KBR’s office in Leatherhead The fabrication work was also kicked off today at two of the yards in Poland and at Apply Leirvik’s yard “The Johan Sverdrup project is growing every day It is a complex puzzle with activities spread all over the world We are 14,000 people working on the project every day in 2016 and together we will perform 100 million working hours We depend on everyone delivering as required and all pieces of the puzzle falling into place at the right time and with the right quality Our top priority is a safe working environment We do not want any injuries among personnel working for the Johan Sverdrup project,” says Digre The utility and living quarters platform will accommodate the crew working on the Johan Sverdrup field during the field life of 50 years The platform will have the largest living quarters on the NCS with a capacity of 560 people The platform will also accommodate the field’s control and emergency centre and some utility systems covering the whole field centre The platform will be completed in the first quarter of 2019 before it is installed on the Johan Sverdrup field by use of the world’s largest 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