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Holocaust survivor tracks down family of Polish woman who saved her from WWII death camp with the help of Facebook

The youngest daughter of what might be the only nuclear family to have survived the Warsaw ghetto and the deportations to Treblinka has miraculously discovered the relatives of the Polish woman who saved her after a desperate last-minute appeal on Facebook. Aviva Landau/Gal Stern family archive/Public domain

Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…

Jazzman livens up statues with his ‘sousaphone’ in 100-km per day charity ride for dogs

Award-winning composer and musician Piotr Wróbel has spent the last month cycling from Warsaw to Gdańsk and searching out ‘taken-for-granted’ statues to pose with his tuba-like instrument and raise money for dogs with cancer or other diseases, or which have been injured in traffic accidents or mistreated by their owners.

Initiative launched to help older business men and women survive pandemic through social media promotion

Since launching at the beginning of April, the campaign which collects and features the profiles of businesses whose older owners have often been running them for decades, has already amassed a following of 7,000 on Facebook and 34,000 on Instagram alone. 

Polish writer charged for calling president a "moron"

A well-known writer and screenwriter has been charged by Warsaw prosecutors with insulting President Andrzej Duda after he called him a “moron” in a Facebook post.

Facebook unblocks IPN page

Facebook has unblocked the English-language page of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a national organisation set up to investigate Nazi and communist crimes against the Polish people.

Ad tax to level the field for domestic media companies - PM

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has defended a planned tax on media advertising revenue by saying it is intended to level the playing field for domestic companies against multinational corporations.

Facebook blocking IPN over WWII content demands strong reaction, warns Culture Ministry

The social media giant blocked the Institute of National Remembrance after it posted information about the Germanisation of Polish children during WWII.

Poland tops number of EU countries in Web Design rankings, says The Manifest

Compiled by industry leader agency The Manifest, the rankings are based on client feedback and projects the agency realised.

PM appeals for support of Belarusians

PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday issued a Facebook appeal for support of the Belarusian people in their struggle for democracy.

Auschwitz survivor blasts FB boss over Holocaust denial

As part of the #NoDenyingIt campaign by prominent Holocaust survivors, Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski wrote an open letter in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung urging Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust-denying groups, pages and posts as hate speech.

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