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Poland’s president OKs seizure of WWII site for new museum

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Statue of divisive Polish priest removed from Gdansk square

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FILE - In this Thursday Feb. 21, 2019 file photo, activists in Poland pull down a statue of a prominent deceased priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, who allegedly abused minors sexually, in Gdansk, Poland. The new mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, said late Monday March 4, 2019, the statue of controversial Solidarity-era priest Henryk Jankowski, at the center of allegations he abused minors, should not stand in a public place. (AP Photo/Bartek Sabela/Gazeta Wyborcza, File)

Gdansk mayor: No public space for divisive priest’s statue

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FILE - This May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick in Bremen, Germany. Residents in Poland's northern city of Gdansk are voting in a by-election Sunday, March 3, 2019 to choose the successor to late Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, who was fatally stabbed during a charity event. Adamowicz's killing in January has become a platform for calls for political reconciliation but also criticism of the ruling conservative Law and Justice party. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP, file)

Slain Gdansk mayor’s deputy wins by-election in Poland

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FILE - This May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick in Bremen, Germany. Residents in Poland's northern city of Gdansk are voting in a by-election Sunday, March 3, 2019 to choose the successor to late Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, who was fatally stabbed during a charity event. Adamowicz's killing in January has become a platform for calls for political reconciliation but also criticism of the ruling conservative Law and Justice party. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP, file)

Poland holds vote in Gdansk to elect slain mayor’s successor

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Mayor Pawel Adamowicz's coffin lies in state in the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Residents of a Polish city are paying respects at the coffin of the longtime mayor who was killed in a stabbing attack. Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz will lie in state until Friday at a museum is devoted to the history of Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement, which started in the city. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Tens of thousands honor stabbed Polish mayor on burial eve

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

People stand by a heart shaped with candles as a tribute to slain President of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz in Gdansk, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Slain mayor lies in state at Solidarity museum in Poland

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

FILE - The May 4, 2016 file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick. Poland's health minister says that Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died from stab wounds a day after being attacked onstage by an ex-convict at a charity event. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

Poles place candles and flags at half-staff for slain mayor

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, right, far right, speaks to an audience shortly before he was stabbed in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent surgery. (AP Photo/Anna Rezulak/KFP)

The Latest: Poland mayor mourned as critic of anti-Semitism

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Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, right, far right, speaks to an audience shortly before he was stabbed in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent surgery. (AP Photo/Anna Rezulak/KFP)

Pawel Adamowicz, Polish mayor, dies after being stabbed in heart and abdomen

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

People place candles as they mourn the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, in Gdansk, Poland, Monday Jan. 14, 2019. Poland's president says a national day of mourning will be observed when a mayor who was fatally stabbed at a charity event is buried. President Andrzej Duda opened a news conference with a minute of silence in memory of Adamowicz, who died Monday from the stab wounds he suffered on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Slain mayor led Polish city known for openness, Solidarity

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Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, right, far right, speaks to an audience shortly before he was stabbed in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent surgery. (AP Photo/Anna Rezulak/KFP)

Doctors fight to save Polish mayor stabbed in heart on stage

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

The Latest: Polish mayor in serious condition after stabbing

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A man holds a sharp object just after stabbing Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019. Adamowicz was taken to a hospital in very serious condition after the attack and underwent an operation.(AP Photo/Anna Rezulak)

Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, stabbed at charity event

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FILE - In this June 18, 2005 file photo former President Lech Walesa, left, welcomes father Henryk Jankowski at a party in Walesa's honor in Gdansk, Poland. Allegations against the late Mgr. Jankowski, one of the key figures in the Solidarity 1980 strikes, surfaced this week that he sexually abused minors. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Church urged to check sex abuse claims against priest

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

This photo from Sept. 19, 2018, shows the window of the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, after a man threw a rock inside as the Jewish community gathered for prayers at the end of the Yom Kippur holiday. (AP Photo/Michal Samet/Jewish Community of Gdansk)

Polish police looking for man who threw stone into synagogue

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge signs a book of condolence in the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof near the town of Sztutowo, 30 kilometers east of the city of Gdansk, Poland, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. The British royal couple is in Poland with their children on a goodwill visit intended to seal friendly ties after Britain leaves the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Prince William, Kate visit WWII camp, Gdansk on Poland trip

By CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI - Associated Press

A woman looks at an exhibit in the Museum of the Second World War, an ambitious new museum under creation for nine years has opened its doors for a day to historians, museums and reporters in Gdansk, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Fate of Polish WWII museum unclear amid battle over history

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

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

Gdansk shipyard, famed Solidarity movement birthplace, celebrates a comeback

By Beata Biel - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on the renewal of Gdansk, Poland by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RICHARD RAHN: Gdansk, Poland: From ruins to vibrancy

By Richard W. Rahn