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Two Polish skiers have died in an avalanche in Slovakia’s High Tatra Mountains, rescuers said Sunday. Slovakia’s Mountain Rescue Service (HZS) said three skiers were caught by an avalanche near the Kondratova Kopa mountain in the western High Tatras on Saturday evening. “One of them managed to dig himself out and contacted rescuers who began a mission on snowmobiles and skis. They discovered two bodies of Polish skiers,” the HZS said in a statement. x A Polish rescue team found the man who survived and placed the emergency call, the HZS said. “He ...

Two Polish ski mountaineers died on Saturday in an avalanche under the Kondratova Kopa peak in Slovakia's Western Tatras mountain range, Slovak rescuers said on Sunday.

The researchers were accused of defaming a man whom they said aided in the killing of Jews. Critics say the Polish government is whitewashing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

Future of Holocaust research in Poland hinges on libel case Vanessa Gera Updated:  Tags:  1943 AP FILE - In this 1943 photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocaust research under Polands nationalist government. A verdict is expected Feb. 9. (AP Photo, B/W File) WA...

Since it won power in 2015, the conservative ruling party, Law and Justice, has sought to discourage investigations into Polish wrongdoing during the wartime German occupation, preferring instead to almost exclusively stress Polish heroism and suffering. The aim is to promote national pride — but critics say the government has been whitewashing the fact that some Poles also collaborated in the German murder of Jews. The Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem said the legal effort “constitutes a serious attack on free and open research.” A number of other historical institutions have condem...