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Keeping on track: tram museum takes people on virtual tour of vintage rolling stock

Vintage roller: Just one of the old trams on view via the virtual museum. Press materials/Tramwaje Warszawskie

The virtual tour takes in eight trams, spanning some 70 years of design.

Photographer turns Google street view into fascinating candid series documenting life in (mainly) rural Poland

To overcome lockdown boredom, snapper Monika Stpiczyńska decided to take a virtual tour around Poland using Google street view. What she found was an incredibly candid presentation of everyday life in cities, towns, and villages.  

Up, up and away: aviation museum offers virtual tours

The Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków has thrown open its doors for some pandemic-dodging virtual tours.

Independence Tour 2018

The Independence Tour 2018 includes 10 concerts with a repertoire of Polish classical music, vocal and historical instruments, which will be performed in 10 European countries. One of them will be held in Vilnius on December 12, 2018.

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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:

  • 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

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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