Wojciech Kolarski
Polish politician
Photo: The Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- Aug 31
Warsaw bids farewell to Uprising veteran Wanda Traczyk-Stawska in multifaith funeral
State dignitaries, Warsaw residents, and multifaith clergy gathered on 31 August 2026 for the funeral Mass and burial of Warsaw Uprising hero Wanda Traczyk-Stawska following her death at age 99.
- Aug 3
President Nawrocki awards standard to Warsaw's 18th Territorial Defence Brigade, praises role of women in the military
At a ceremony on Warsaw's Castle Square, President Karol Nawrocki presented the military standard to the 18th Capital Territorial Defence Brigade, while Deputy Defence Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka highlighted that one in five WOT soldiers is now a woman.
- Jul 11
Far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun erects cross with antisemitic plaque at Jedwabne pogrom memorial on 85th anniversary
On the 85th anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom, far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun and his supporters placed a cross metres from the mass grave, bearing a plaque blaming "Russian-Jewish Sovietism" alongside German Nazism. Official state commemorations proceeded separately under police protection.
