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

Snapper Monika Stpiczyńska found an incredibly candid presentation of everyday life in cities, towns, and villages. Google Streer View

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.  

Late baroque magnate residence has opened its virtual doors

Zamoyski Museum is a palace located in Kozłówka, a village in the Lublin Voivodeship. It is a residence, where two families Bieliński and Zamoyski used to live.

Poland's D-Day Story live

Discover the important role of Poland's military during the Normandy landings at this special anniversary event.

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.

Virtual walk through Elbląg’s old town

Elbląg is one of the oldest cities in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and the delightful old town is a place that every tourist should visit.

Virtual ‘Penderecki garden’ to bloom on composer’s birthday in celebration of his works

A new interactive website celebrating the work of composer Krzysztof Penderecki has been launched.

Health Ministry launches virtual coronavirus diagnostic tool

Poland's Health Ministry launched a virtual tool on Wednesday that makes it possible to check for coronavirus disease symptoms and assess the risk of infection.

Virtual Auschwitz Museum attracts 50,000 visitors in March

Fifty thousand people visited Poland's Auschwitz Museum in March thanks to virtual online visits, the former Nazi German death camp's authorities announced on Twitter on Thursday.

Read all about it! Virtual library assistant helps readers find books based on their moods and preferences

The “Automatic Reviewer – Intelligent Book Recommendation System” uses deep learning technology and natural language processing. These enable its software to mimic the workings of the human brain and read, understand and derive meaning from human languages – in this case, the content of a book.

Top 5 articles:

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  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • 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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