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Gross-Rosen

‘A museum isn’t just for tourists. It a place for interaction with history’

Mirosław Nizio has shaped, enriched and advanced Poland’s contemporary cultural landscape in a way like no other. Nizio design international

TFN talks to Mirosław Nizio, the man who has reinvented the museum experience as we know it.

Unbelievable tale of children born and imprisoned in notorious Gestapo prison retold in harrowing new book

After months of meticulous research, author Sylwia Winnik gathered together eight accounts of children who spent part of their childhood in the German prison in occupied Warsaw for her new book Dzieci z Pawiaka (The Children from Pawiak). TFN’s Stuart Dowell met her to find out more.

Forgotten history of “Little Nuremburg” trials revealed in fascinating new book

With clues suggesting that Auschwitz beast Josef Mengele may have also stood trial in the little town of Świdnica, author Agnieszka Dobkiewicz said: “Something extraordinary happened in 1946 in a small town near Gross-Rosen, something that stands to change our knowledge of Mengele’s immediate post-war life. Certainly, it now seems plausible that he returned to this former concentration camp because of an unfinished affair…”

Unseen pre-war pictures of Książ reveal castle’s former glory

Taken in the 1930s by a tourist to what was then Schloss Fürstenstein the pictures provide historians with valuable information on the castle’s interiors.

Gross-Rosen Museum under culture ministry

The Culture Ministry will join forces with local authorities in administrating the Gross-Rosen Museum on the site of the World War II Gross-Rosen Nazi-German death camp in southern Poland.

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Incredible 3D reconstruction reveals how face of a medieval Polish man with dwarfism once looked

An incredible 3D reconstruction has revealed how the face of a medieval Polish man with dwarfism once looked.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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