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Mother sets up preschool for her autistic child after being unable to place her in education system

Using soft colours and a lot of natural light the school aims to create a welcoming and sympathetic environment. Blue Bees/Facebook

The Blue Bees Autism Academy is one of the country’s few schools dedicated to providing an education to autistic children.

All quiet on the shopping front: Shopping centre turns off lights and music and brings in ‘Silent Hours’ for autistic customers

Every Saturday morning between 9 and 11, the shopping mall in Katowice will switch off its music to help autistic customers do their shopping calmly after studies show that shopping centres are the most problematic places for people with autism.

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
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

Mauthausen had a fearsome reputation for being the toughest concentration camp in Hitler’s Third Reich. But Bydgoszcz boxer Edward Rinke was tougher

TFN’s Stuart Dowell travels to the city of Bydgoszcz where he unravels the extraordinary story of one man’s literal fight for survival in a concentration camp nicknamed the ‘bone grinder’ by its SS guards.

The first report:

Poles back president's response to Russia's information attack - poll
All Poland's borders monitored for coronavirus - official
Auschwitz remembrance is important for over 90 pct of Poles - poll
Pole reaches fourth round of Australian Open tennis tournament
Over 16 mln foreign tourists visited Poland between Jan-Sept 2019 - minister

'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.

Dan Session
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
27/01 Royals, world leaders to attend Auschwitz liberation anniversary
21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21

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