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4Wheelchair drive across Americas

Maciej Kamiński and Michał Woroch with their faithful 22-year old Land Rover Defender on the Salar de Uyuni salt flat (Bolivia) wheelchairtrip.com

Maciej Kamiński and Michał Woroch are back on the road, to complete their epic journey across the Americas.

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Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
HERO! Polish chef tackles London Bridge terrorist with 1.5-metre narwhal tusk
Old black and white photos of Warsaw Uprising brought to life in incredible colour
Miracle-worker surgeon becomes first Pole in history awarded prestigious fellowship

History

After liberation of Auschwitz death camp Stalin’s feared NKVD used camp to hold Polish prisoners

Initiated by the NKVD but soon handed over to the newly-installed secret police, the UB, within weeks thousands of Poles were again behind barbed wire at the former death camp.

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Polish lower house speaker meets Lithuanian counterpart
Gov't debates coronavirus countermeasures
Book about Polish WWII hero receives Costa Book of the Year award
Poland's economy growth likely at 4.2 pct in 2019 - official
President Duda most trusted politician in Poland - poll

'My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS!'

During WW II, the Germans kidnapped up to 200,000 ‘racially suitable’ Polish children for adoption by senior Nazis. In a harrowing, exclusive interview, TFN speaks to the son of one of the ‘Lebensborn’. What makes his story unusual though, is that with no real family of her own in Poland, Dariusz Dziekan’s mother quickly got back in contact with her German adopted mother after the war and Dziekan grew up knowing this woman simply as Grandma.

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Sad but beautiful! Why are Polish christmas carols so miserable?

Why So Serious?
A chance encounter on the remote Faroe Islands leads to a meeting with a remarkable Polish woman.

Events

19/12 - 08/03 Blockbuster! Lego Notre Dame smashes world record
09/01 - 29/03 Exhibition of impressionist prints opens in Poznan
21/01 - 27/02 Exhibition honouring Polish WWII courier opens in Rome
21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21
19/05 - 23/05 Canadian music event an opportunity to strengthen relations - ambassador

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