This past week, thousands of people, many of them women and youths, turned out to the polls in record numbers, taking the Poland election into their own hands to oust the conservative Law and Order party, also known as the PiS.
In hopes of crossing into the European Union, thousands of migrants from Belarus are trapped on the Polish-Belarusian border in makeshift tents under freezing temperatures, according to reports from NPR.
The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, signed a bill that will make it illegal to call Holocaust death camps “Polish” on Feb. 6, 2018. According to The New York Times, failure to comply with the legislation will result in a fine or imprisonment for up to three years.