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Wojtek the Bear

Goodbye to all that: travel highlights from the year just gone

From polar bears and wild encounters to historic palaces and reborn castles, TFN looks at the destinations that saved the year from outright calamity. Alex Webber/Kalbar/TFN

From polar bear trails to revamped castles, Webber presents his top travel finds of 2020.

Un-bear-lievable! Wojtek the 'soldier bear' gets his own tartan

WWII bear's new kilt colours weave together the colours of the Polish and Scottish flags, the green of the army uniform and the brown of the bear.

Bear necessities: The big brown bear who helped Polish troops in WWII

As Poland prepares to honour its heroes and remember its dead from the victorious Battle of Monte Cassino, which ended on May 18, 1944, one Polish soldier will hold a special place in veterans’ memories – a big brown bear called Wojtek.

Top 5 articles:

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
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

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

The first report:

Poland's recovery plan to be ready by end-April
Poland considering purchase of Chinese-made vaccine
Polish State Treasury debt at EUR 242.7 bln in January
Poland to allocate EUR 154.8 million for Rare Diseases Plan
Polish companies to receive nearly EUR 1.6 bln from anti-crisis package

‘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.”

The Debrief
Spring is coming, and so are the storks!

Webber's World
Under-the-radar? No way. Just call Wrocław wonderful instead

Events

21/05 - 22/08 Matejko to be first EVER Polish artist exhibited at London’s National Gallery

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