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Polish explorer who saved hundreds of thousands during Great Irish Famine remembered in new exhibition

Paul (Paweł) Strzelecki was born into a Polish noble family in 1797, in what was Prussia at the time. State Library of New South Wales

After climbing and naming Australia’s tallest mountain, adventurer Paweł Strzelecki went to Ireland where, despite suffering from typhoid fever, he set about saving the lives of starving children.

Australian visit aimed to boost cooperation, meet compatriots - President

President Andrzej Duda pointed out two reasons for his current visit to Australia - the desire to meet with compatriots living there and to develop international cooperation with the country.

President to take part in Polish-Australian Energy Forum in Sydney

President Andrzej Duda will take part in the Polish-Australian Energy Forum on cooperation in the field of modern technologies and innovations in the natural resource and energy sector on August 21 in Sydney, head of President's Office Krzysztof Szczerski told PAP.

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  • 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:

  • PM presents National Recovery Plan
  • No reason for Orlen CEO to step down - gov't spokesman
  • Warsaw Appeal Court rules that Judge Tuleya can adjudicate
  • Despite restrictions, Polish manufacturing doing well in Q4, 2020
  • Poland's GDP drops 2.8 pct y/y in Q4 - stats office

Exclusive

‘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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