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Doctor known as ‘Mother of Lepers’ takes first step towards sainthood with beatification

Wanda Błeńska who died at the age of 103 cured thousands of people of leprosy. Wanda Błeńska Archive/Wanda Błeńska Facebook

Known for helping her patients without wearing gloves during treatment so as not to frighten and discourage them, Wanda Błeńska who died at the age of 103 cured thousands of Ugandans of leprosy.

Kenyan wins women's race of Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020

Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won on Saturday the women's race of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Poland's northern city of Gdynia, having clocked 1:05:16 and improving her own world record in a women-only race.

Monastic makeover: offshore wartime torpedo station gets recast as monastery

New design aims to give peace a chance by changing a military base into a place of prayer.

Feline fine! Firemen named heroes after cats rescued from blazing flats

The Gdynia fire brigade had been attending a routine callout when events took a turn and they ended up saving the lives of the two moggies.

Tesco to cut jobs and close more stores in Poland - daily

The British supermarket group Tesco has announced plans to cut jobs, close its online store and a few other hypermarkets in Poland, the Puls Biznesu daily wrote on Wednesday.

Development Visions Forum starts on Monday

The 3rd Development Visions Forum devoted to innovative economic policies will commence on Monday at the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia, northern Poland. The meeting is under the patronage of Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki.

PM appeals to Polish firms use domestic products and technology

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told a Saturday press conference in Gdynia, northern Poland, that Polish companies and institutions should take advantage of Polish products and Polish technology.

Open’er Festival goes online

Open’er is going online! For the first time since 2002, the legendary Open’er Festival won’t take place at the Gdynia Kossakowo Airport.

Gdynia cleared as huge WWII parachute bomb weighing ONE TONNE is detonated 3km out to sea

The operation to move the bomb, which was most likely dropped by Hitler’s Luftwaffe at the start of the war, began at 8am and took nearly six hours before it could be exploded.

Gdynia Film Festival postponed until 2021

Due to the prevailing epidemiological situation in Poland and government recommendations regarding the organisation of mass events, the 45th Polish Film Festival (FPFF) in Gdynia, a port city on the Baltic coast of Poland, has been postponed until 2021.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

The first report:

  • Poland's recovery plan to be ready by end-April
  • Poland considering purchase of Chinese-made vaccine
  • Polish State Treasury debt at EUR 242.7 bln in January
  • Poland to allocate EUR 154.8 million for Rare Diseases Plan
  • Polish companies to receive nearly EUR 1.6 bln from anti-crisis package

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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