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Monika Scislowska

The photo taken June 3, 2013 in Chicago shows the header of Michael Karkoc's petition for naturalization obtained from the U.S. National Archives in Illinois. (AP/M. Spencer Green)

Commander in Nazi-led unit found living in the US

Monika Scislowska, David Rising, Randy Herschaft

Poland searches for Auschwitz hero

Monika Scislowska

Late Poland president’s twin runs to replace him

Monika Scislowska

This image from Polish Television's TVP via APTN shows a firefighter walking near some of the wreckage at the crash site where Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday April 10, 2010 along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in near Smolensk in western Russia. (AP Photo/TVP via APTN) (AP)

Polish leader, 96 others dead in Russia jet crash

Monika Scislowska, Victoria Buravchenko

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 and made available Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 Adam Buczynski carries a dog found floating cold and alone on an ice floe 15 miles off the Polish Baltic Sea coast in Gdynia, Poland. Buczynski, a sailor from the ship "Baltic" pulled out the dog from the ice floe. (AP Photo/Maciej Czoska) ** POLAND OUT ** (AP)

Dog adrift saved from sea

Monika Scislowska