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Poland’s Muslim community is thriving with a vibrant cultural history covering 600 years of Tatar life

The mosque and mizar in Kruszyniany are listed as historical monuments with the highest category of objects of cultural heritage, a title given only by the President. Kalbar/TFN

EXCLUSIVE: TFN’s Joanna Jasińska travelled to Poland’s far east to meet the country’s Tatar community and talk about the past, the present, life, love and food.

Warsaw Tatars rustle up culinary feast ahead of World Cup match against Poland

To coincide with Sunday’s match, from June 22-24 the Kazan tourism department is hosting the Festival of Tatar Cuisine to show off the best of Tartar cooking.

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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’.

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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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