horror

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

For 65 unbroken years Anna Odi has lived in one of the characteristic red-brick blocks that have become synonymous with the largest documented mass murder in the history of humanity. Kalbar/TFN

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.”

The Polish midwife who stood up for life amid the horror of Auschwitz

Forced to witness some of the most horrific scenes on earth, surrounded by death and the slaughter of infants, which she was also ordered to carry out, one woman quietly carried out her duty and defended the value of life against a culture of death. Her remarkable story is a testament to hope and courage in the darkest of circumstances.

Extraordinary collection of rare photos capturing the horror and destruction of the Warsaw Uprising up for auction

Constituting one of the few documentary records of the capital during the Uprising, the 310 photographs from the private archive of photographer Eugeniusz Haneman reveal the horrors and damage to the city as well as the bravery of the insurgents.

Zombie horror fungus which kills insects and then grows out of their HEADS spotted in local forests

Captured in the Baligród Forest District in the Bieszczady Mountains (south-eastern Poland), the wasp was attacked by the rare fungus known as Ophiocordyceps ditmarii which then buried itself inside the insect’s body before erupting out of its head.

Unbelievable tale of children born and imprisoned in notorious Gestapo prison retold in harrowing new book

After months of meticulous research, author Sylwia Winnik gathered together eight accounts of children who spent part of their childhood in the German prison in occupied Warsaw for her new book Dzieci z Pawiaka (The Children from Pawiak). TFN’s Stuart Dowell met her to find out more.

As Poland’s first proper horror storms to No1 on Netflix, TFN talks to director Bartosz M. Kowalski about his ode to the B-films he grew up with

Largely shot in the forests of Kampinos, the flick follows a group of tech-addicted teens who fall into a nightmare when they find themselves hunted by a hideously deformed killer that prowls the woods seeking out his prey.

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