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Ready, steady, ho, ho, ho! Running Santas swamp Toruń in charity marathon for kids

3,000 Santas gathered on the freezing streets of Toruń to run, spread Christmas cheer and gather gifts for children in care homes. Tytus Żmijewski/PAP

Santas from all over Poland, 20 different countries and five continents joined together for the run.

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Art & Culture

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‘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.”

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