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Fenix from the ashes: in the distant Faroe Islands, a Polish woman re-builds her life

A group of islands in the North Atlantic, the Faroes are as beautiful as they are remote. Vincent van Zeijst/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

A chance encounter on the remote Faroe Islands leads to a meeting with a remarkable Polish woman.

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Art & Culture

Astonishing photo of girl coming out of coma-like state is through to finals of World Press Photo 2020 in TWO categories

Freelance photographer Tomek Kaczor beat off competition from thousands of hopefuls to make it through to the finals with his amazing capture entitled ‘Awakening’ showing a 15-year-old Armenian girl who suffers from Resignation Syndrome (RS) which leaves sufferers in a coma-like state.

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'My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS!'

During WW II, the Germans kidnapped up to 200,000 ‘racially suitable’ Polish children for adoption by senior Nazis. In a harrowing, exclusive interview, TFN speaks to the son of one of the ‘Lebensborn’. What makes his story unusual though, is that with no real family of her own in Poland, Dariusz Dziekan’s mother quickly got back in contact with her German adopted mother after the war and Dziekan grew up knowing this woman simply as Grandma.

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A chance encounter on the remote Faroe Islands leads to a meeting with a remarkable Polish woman.

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