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In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a soldier carries one of 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during state burial ceremonies, in Chojnice, Poland, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a soldier carries one of 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during state burial ceremonies, in Chojnice, Poland, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a view of several of the 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during burial ceremonies, in Chojnice, Poland, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a view of several of the 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during burial ceremonies, in Chojnice, Poland, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a view of the 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during a funeral Mass at the basilica in Chojnice, Poland Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

In this photo provided by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, a view of the 188 coffins holding recently uncovered remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions in northern Poland, during a funeral Mass at the basilica in Chojnice, Poland Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Mikołaj Bujak/Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, via AP)

People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Attacked by a German Nazi warship in the small hours on Sept. 1, 1939, the Westerplatte military outpost was supposed to hold out for 24 hours, but its soldiers put up resistance to the Germans for seven days. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Attacked by a German Nazi warship in the small hours on Sept. 1, 1939, the Westerplatte military outpost was supposed to hold out for 24 hours, but its soldiers put up resistance to the Germans for seven days. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)