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Novel story: donations pour in for man who lost his business when criminals torched his book van

Confessed booklover: In his lifetime Mr Włodek has read around 20,000 titles. He sold books to supplement his pension. Włodek Książkowy/Facebook

Mr Włodek can hit the market again with a new van and new books thanks to public donations.

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News & Politics | History

The Truth Must Not Die: Politicians and historians line up to refute Putin’s attempt to revise WWII history

In a coalition of force, PM Mateusz Morawiecki, President Andrzej Duda and a group of internationally renowned historians have published articles in international media highlighting Russia’s falsification of WWII history.

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'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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21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21

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