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Russia said on Tuesday it had summoned Poland's chargé d'affaires to protest against what it called the "seizure" of its embassy school building in Warsaw last week.

Russia on Saturday promised it would respond harshly to what it said was Poland's illegal seizure of its embassy school in Warsaw, an act it called a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.

Yellow daffodils are everywhere in Warsaw this week, a symbol of remembrance of the 1943 uprising by Jews in the city's ghetto against Nazi Germany

Descendants of the 400,000 Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto marked the 80th anniversary of their doomed uprising against their Nazi occupiers on Wednesday with concerts, exhibitions and speeches given by Polish, German and Israeli leaders. Family members of the survivors gathered to share their ancestors’ stories and asked questions…

Eighty years on from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World War II - Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the world against sowing hatred.

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Polish president Andrzej Duda, and Israeli president Isaac Herzog came together on Wednesday, 19 April, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On 19 April 1943, several hundred poorly armed inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto began to resist Nazi Germany's efforts to deport Jews to the death camps. The civilian fighters resisted for 27 days. The Germans subsequently burned the ghetto to the ground.

It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto since July 1942. Three weeks after the final uprising,…