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Debrief Extra - Ihar Melnikau

Grodno, Belarus. A gate symbolising the entrance to the Grodno Ghetto. Wojciech Pacewicz/PAP

This is Debrief Extra, your espresso shot of cultural news from Poland and beyond!

Mama Bush – Dorota Kozarzewska

Meet Dorota Kozarzewska, a bush guide and expedition organiser who has been taking Polish and international tourists on safaris for over twenty years.

Memory of Polish ‘children born of war’ in the spotlight

A new book recently published in Poland explores the living memory of Polish CBOWs, or ‘Children Born of War’.

Daddy cool: from corporate consultant to kids’ author…

What happens when you have a caring dad who works too much but who still wants to spend as much time with his kids as possible?

Marconi’s Warsaw

A lot of the old and grand buildings you can still see in Warsaw nowadays were built thanks to the ingenuity and skill of a certain Marconi…

“Hospitality and Openness” – Reflections on 3 May Constitution

The 3 May Constitution of 1791 is known as being Europe’s first modern constitution, following on from the United States two years before. At the time, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a multi-ethnic state, comprising Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Jews, Germans, Armenians and other ethnicities.

Dancing away the May holiday

A little bit of a folk twist coming up in this episode of The Debrief as we’re at the Mazurkas of The World Festival in Warsaw.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – 80 years on

This week marked 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out. The fight, the largest act of armed resistance by Jews in World War II, started 19 April 1943 and lasted just under a month until 16 May.

‘Not only Kroke’ – a new history of Jews in Kraków

The Kraków district of Kazimierz is home to the city’s Jewish history and heritage. Before World War II, there were almost 60,000 Jews living in Kraków, around one quarter of the city’s total population.

‘Fotografika’ exhibition explores Polish art photography

A new exhibition on Polish artistic photography which spans most of the 20th century is on in the southern Polish city of Kraków.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
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Customs officials find pensioner with stash of gold coins worth 1.5million zł hidden inside her clothing

Officials discovered the five kilograms of gold coins during a routine search at the border crossing with Ukraine in Hrebenne south east Poland.

The first report:

  • Ruling party leads in poll but not enough for parliamentary majority
  • Def. min. criticises Ukraine over proposed German Security Council seat
  • Polish president calls for special tribunal for Russian war crimes in Ukraine
  • Mortgage moratorium extension to be priority after elections says PM
  • Poland stops sending weapons to Ukraine says PM

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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