Two days of anti-government protests have exposed clashing views on the shape of Poland’s democracy, with a European Union leader and the protesters saying it is threatened by the government, and the prime minister insisting the threat is coming from the opposition’s actions. European Council President Donald Tusk and Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo made separate comments Saturday on the rising political tension between Poland’s conservative government and the pro-EU opposition.
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Anne Levy talks Holocaust survival at East Bank library
As Anne Levy spoke, tears flowed, some audience members were stunned to silence and, at other moments, laughter rippled in the Jefferson Room of the East Bank Regional Library. More than 140 people packed the room to hear Levy, a Holocaust survivor, talk about about her childhood experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.