by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 22 Feb 2017 | Polish news
Female prisoners of the German concentration camp in Ravensbruck did not want the world to forget about them. They managed to secretly pass information about the actual life in the camp, and this correspondence has just been donated to the Lublin Museum. They felt...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 10 Feb 2017 | Polish news
At the end of October last year, Tom Hanks surprised his Polish fans by posting a picture of himself posing next to a Fiat 126p. He was then in Budapest, saw quite a lot of those tiny cars and decided to take some pictures. Fiat 126p was manufactured in Italy...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 23 Dec 2016 | Polish news
A team of surgeons from the University Hospital in Wroclaw, under the direction of Dr. Adam Domanasiewicz, have successfully performed the world’s first hand transplant on an adult patient, who was born without that part of the body. The procedure was carried...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 15 Jul 2016 | Leisure & Travel
Poles love it when they don’t need to go to work and they love to celebrate, so they have established as many as 13 public holidays and religious feasts, which are non-working days. Most public institutions, banks and shopping centres are closed on these days,...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 4 Mar 2016 | Polish news
He calls it devolution. Professor Maciej Giertych, dendrologist and politician, has been waging war on the theory of evolution for years, but only now the scientific community has so openly criticised him. Professor Giertych has recently published a book titled...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 21 Jan 2016 | Polish news
One subject, but quite different photographic views of the world – an amateur photographer from the south of Poland and his daughter with Down syndrome together in a project, which teaches the father a fresh look at the world, and gives nearly 18-year-old Kaja a...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 15 Jan 2016 | Leisure & Travel
Poles like to celebrate a lot, so they have 13 public holidays and religious feasts, which are non-working days. Most public institutions, banks and shopping centres are closed on these days, and you will find most shopping centres full with people the day before. On...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 17 Nov 2015 | Polish news
First, a nose emerges from the ground. Then an ear. Next, the rest of a head. Workers lay the head on its side with caution and stare at the marble block. “Hitler as I live and breathe,” says one of them in the end. Two workers changing plumbing lines next...
by Agnieszka Kwiatkowska | 4 Nov 2015 | Polish news
CRIST shipyard in Gdynia will construct a ferry powered by hybrid batteries that can be recharged in just 7 minutes for Finferries. This will be the second ferry of its kind in Europe. The first electric ferry has been in use in Norway, on the line Lavik –...
