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Poland's heritage should be protected, says UNESCO

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Peter Gentle 30.07.2011 09:04
With ten items on the UNESCO Memory of the World register, Poland is at the top of the list of countries whose archives should be safeguarded, says the UN.

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The latest Polish entry to the UNESCO list is the Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office ‘(BOS Archive), which is a testimony of the almost total destruction of the city (pictured) during World War Two and its subsequent rebuilding and kept at the State Archives of Warsaw.

In 1980 the reconstructed Old Town of Warsaw was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The other Polish items on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register include the autograph of Copernicus’s epoch-making work ‘De revolutionibus’, the manuscripts of Fryderyk Chopin and the twenty one postulates of the striking workers of the Gdańsk Shipyard of August 1980, which led to the birth of the Solidarity movement. (mk/pg)

tags: UNESCO, Warsaw
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