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American woman says she is Pole who went missing 26 years ago after being kidnapped and SOLD by her dad

Monika Bielawska was one-years-old when she disapproved from outside a pharmacy in Legnica. Face-ageing technology shows what she would look like today. Zaginieni przed laty/Facebook

Monika Bielawska was one-years-old when she disappeared from outside a pharmacy in Legnica. Now, a 27-year-old American woman searching for her real parents after discovering she was adopted says SHE is Monika.

New book shines light on forgotten Polish Nazi hunter who brought Auschwitz commandant to trial

TFN talks to Filip Gańczak, author of a history of Jan Sehn, the man who prosecuted some of history’s most infamous Nazis.

Investigation uncovers web of Russian agents behind string of bomb threats

The investigation found that the emails were linked to three servers based in St. Petersburg, which, according to the investigating journalists, have been used in the past to spread disinformation around the world.

Poland’s most outstanding WWII flying ace sentenced to death by Stalinist kangaroo court 70 years ago today

Dubbed ‘Flying Death’ by the Germans, Stanisław Skalski saw action in Poland following the outbreak of war, later becoming the first Pole to command an RAF squadron. Miraculously avoiding death twice, after the war it seemed his luck had run out when he was arrested by the secret police on trumped up charges of espionage, tortured for over a year and then sentenced to be executed. But again, he survived.

HBO takes on new series from acclaimed screenwriter Marta Szymanek

The Warsaw writer behind the sensational HBO series The Pack is now back with gripping crime thriller The Thaw, described as being “a deeply human and painfully relevant story.”

Prosecutors drops probe against historian in defamation case

Prosecutors in Katowice, south Poland, decided on Tuesday that Polish historian and sociologist Jan T. Gross did not defame the Polish nation in his 2015 publication.

Body of missing millionaire film producer found after four-day search

Married Piotr Woźniak-Starak had been on his luxury speedboat with a mystery blonde when he went missing. Police later found the empty boat floating on the lake and the woman identified as a local restaurant worker on the shore. She told them they had fallen off and that she had managed to swim to safety.

Polish delegation in Smoleńsk continues Tu-154M wreckage examination

Polish prosecutors and forensic technicians are conducting procedural steps on examination of the TU-154M presidential plane that crashed in Smoleńsk, Russia, on April 10, 2010, with the loss of 96 lives, the Russian Investigative Committee has announced.

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