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Polish Violin Sensation Maria Sławek

Polish Violin Sensation Maria Sławek TFN

Maria Sławek first picked up a violin aged 4 and hasn't put one down ever since. Her remarkable love for music has seen her tour the world and in this film she plays pieces of music with cellist Marcin Zdunik from her album 'Rejoice' in the beautiful setting of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

Out of the ashes: new exhibition highlights Warsaw’s Muranów district, once the centre of Warsaw’s Jewish life, and once reduced to rubble

The exhibition explores the fascinating and tragic history of a city district that refused to die.

Polin Museum in Your Home

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews is one of the museums most visited by tourists in Warsaw.

Warsaw’s POLIN museum releases DIY daffodil video to mark anniversary of Ghetto Uprising

As the nation grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has organized a celebrity-backed digital campaign that will allow people to print and fold their own commemorative daffodil to wear at home during the lockdown.

Poland holds congress on civil rights

The Third Congress of Civil Rights, organised by Ombudsman Adam Bodnar, together with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE (ODIHR), started on Friday at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

Winner of classical music’s most expensive comp premieres in Warsaw

The prize awards USD 50,000 to the winner who composes a piece that answers the question: what is Jewish music?

Warsaw museum launches film comp to document connection 9 million descendants of Polish Jews around the world have to Poland today

The fourteen winning films will be featured in a POLIN museum exhibition which includes Roman Gutek, founder of the Warsaw Film Festival and film distribution company Gutek Film.

Human rights congress gets down to business in capital

Now in its second year, the Congress of Human Rights will have 43 panels over two days. Held on 14-15 December, it will take place at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Righteous Among the Nations medals awarded in Warsaw

Sixteen Poles who helped rescue Jews during World War Two were posthumously awarded with Righteous Among the Nations medals at a ceremony at Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Wednesday.

Food for thought: Museum serves up kosher delights at Food Safety Congress

Held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland’s first Kosher Expo set out to dispel myths about kosher food and to inform the food industry about the certification process and promoting their products abroad.

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An unusual choice? Maybe. A good one? Absolutely! Why Łódź is top travel destination for 2021

From a personal point of view, it’s sheer depth of contrast comes somewhere near the top: lavish wedding cake palaces that reference the might once wielded by the city’s power players; futuristic office compounds; blackened, broken tenements; abandoned, creepy warehouses; restored redbrick factories; and PRL blocks of cosmic dimension.

The first report:

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Moving on down the line: how a narrow-gauge railway staved off economic death to become the heart of a community

Still operating, the Pleszew line has embraced the future by becoming a cultural centre.

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