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Recently discovered play by tragic Uprising hero premiers after 77-years

Baczyński began the work in 1942 but it remained unfinished when he was shot dead by a sniper on the afternoon of August 4, 1944. Wikicommons

Regarded as poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s only play, the work was performed for the first time ever after the unfinished manuscript was rediscovered inside the National Library.  

France's Iliad bids for 100 pct in Polish mobile phone operator Play

French telecoms group Iliad is bidding for 100 pct of Polish peer Play Communications at PLN 39 per share, Play and Iliad said in separate press releases on Monday.

Word up! Iranian actor spreads word of one of Poland's theatrical greats with first ever translations into Persian

Ali Shams was stunned to find that plays by Polish writer Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, who he believes was one of the most influential theatrical figures of the 20th century, hadn’t been translated into Persian – so he decided to change that with three classics.

Play telcom to buy Virgin Mobile for over EUR 13 million

P4, operator of the Play mobile network, has signed a preliminary deal to buy a 100 percent stake in the Polish unit of Virgin Mobile, the company has announced.

Murder most foul

This week we take a look at a story of a 14th century murder which was so gruesome even Skakespeare was inspired by it to write one of his plays hundreds of years later.

Mobile operators generate 34 pct of Poland's web traffic - report

Mobile networks such as Orange, Plus, T-Mobile and Play generate 34 percent of all website traffic, according to a recent study conducted on over 600,000 websites serviced by Poland's largest provider of hosting services, nazwa.pl.

Inspiration from murder: the savage killing that links a small Polish town to a Shakespearian play

TFN explores the links between the murder of a woman in the town of Rawa Mazowiecka 650 years ago and Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’.

Top 5 articles:

  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
Sport

Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

The first report:

  • Poland supports Sweden's, Finland's Nato accession
  • Poland, Ukraine announce support programmes for women soldiers, orphans
  • March core inflation rate at 7.7 pct - central bank
  • Ukrainian grain exports may come through Poland
  • US Treasury secretary praises meal charity organisation

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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