After initially refusing to leave his home in Kharkiv, Leonid Stanislavskyi reluctantly changed his mind after Russian bombing forced him to stop playing and he embarked upon his journey to Poland.
Weighing nearly 13 tons, cast in Kraków in 1520 by Nuremberg bellmaker Hans Beham, it was hung on 9 July 1521 in a specially erected defence tower of Wawel Royal Castle, known as the Zygmunt Tower.
Anna Kozminska, the oldest living Righteous Among the Nations honoree, celebrates her 101st birthday on Friday, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has said in a communique sent to PAP.
Upset that he wouldn’t be able to see anyone on his birthday, six-year-old Antoś was delighted when he saw the police and their big blue dog children’s mascot Sznupek waving up at him after they organised a surprise party.
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