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Love in a lockdown: Despite being separated by over 2,000km, lovebirds plan to marry online

Marcin and Guelcin: won’t let the virus get in the way of love. Private archive

They may have had to cancel their “huge Turkish wedding” but the couple will still celebrate the day.

Astonishing story of unsung WWII hero premieres in captivating new documentary

With his unconventional, intelligent command and axiom "A Polish soldier fights for the freedom of all nations, but dies only for Poland" General Stanisław Maczek’s soldiers spearheaded the Allied drive through Western Europe, playing a key role in the  liberation of France, Belgium and Holland. Using dramatized scenes, the new documentary follows his path through Ukraine, Poland, France, the Netherlands and finally Scotland, where after the war he ended up working as a hotel barman.

Virtual Auschwitz Museum attracts 50,000 visitors in March

Fifty thousand people visited Poland's Auschwitz Museum in March thanks to virtual online visits, the former Nazi German death camp's authorities announced on Twitter on Thursday.

Wroclove indeed as kind-hearted tech firms help out the city’s orphanages in virus lockdown

The Wrocław firms are providing local orphanages with computers so that children there can participate in online lessons while schools in Poland remain closed due to the coronavirus.

The 60th Krakow Film Festival will take place!

The full film programme, KFF Industry events and a lot of special offers will be available online for the audiences all over Poland!

Polish government launches virtual hackathon to fight coronavirus

GovTech Polska, the Polish government's technology agency, has launched a virtual edition of the largest stationary hackathon in Europe, HackYeah Online, with the aim of combatting the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, GovTech Polska has said.

Not all doom and gloom: From lower crime rates to bursts of creativity, Poles are looking on the bright side of life

With the arrival of coronavirus having a profound effect on all of our lives, it’s reassuring to note that there is some light in the darkness.

The show must go on! Theatres, galleries and cultural institutions harness digital mediums in coronavirus fightback

Taking to the internet can help keep theatres alive and provide museums with an opportunity to reach out to new audiences.

Payment app BLIK goes global after being picked up by Adyen

Launched just five years ago, BLIK now has around eight transactions every second which is set to increase dramatically following its partnership with Dutch payment provider Adyen.

Auschwitz Museum offers virtual lesson about Litzmannstadt Ghetto

An online lesson presenting the fate of Jews held in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, set up in the Nazi German-occupied central Polish city of Łódź during World War II, was posted on the Auschwitz Museum's website on Monday.

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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
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

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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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