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Campaign to save Kashubian language gathers steam

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to raise PLN 50,000 to create an online Kashubian dictionary and thereby safeguard the language. Adam Warżawa/PAP

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to raise finance for an online Kashubian dictionary – a necessity, say campaigners, if the language is to be kept alive by younger generations.

Grave of forgotten hero who bought Westerplatte peninsula off Germans with his own cash found in UK cemetery

After finding the grave of Polish diplomat Mieczysław Jałowiecki who was a pioneer in the struggle for Poland’s interwar identity, a local historian is now looking to honour his name and memory.

US student creates braille alphabet for Kashubian and Silesian as part of mission to save minority languages

Making a lasting impact on Polish culture by committing two languages barely known outside of their regions to braille, Harris Mowbray used Polish braille as a starting platform to assign values to new letters existing only in Kashubian and Silesian.

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Cell where Witold Pilecki was held before being executed opens to the public

The opening of the 2x3.5-metre cell where Pilecki awaited execution at the hands of the Soviet-installed communists coincides with the 75th anniversary of his execution at the prison in 1948.

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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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