44165 was this camp number of Alina Dąbrowska who at the age of 20 went to Auschwitz. Today she is 95 years old and is one of the last surviving witnesses of Auschwitz. As a teenager, Alina Dąbrowska (then Bartoszek) worked in the German factory for armaments in Pabianice. She knew German and how to […]
The owner of Polish store Mięsko Polish Deli in London has refused to pay a fine of ₤100. The shop was punished for throwing away garbage and rotten meat in a car park. Harrow district council lodged a complaint about the Polish store. “We gave the owner the chance to do the right thing, but she […]
The amendment to Act on the Institute of National Remembrance was speedily backed by the lower house of the Sejm (Polish parliament), the Senate and was signed by the President. The Act read: “Whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes […]
100-year-old Zofia Kaczan has died. At the end of May, the woman was brutally attacked by a thief, who pushed her to the pavement and snatched her bag. The brutal attack on 100-year-old Zofia Kaczan from Normanton in Derby took place on 28 May. According to local police, the woman was brutally attacked near church. […]
Less than two months after an MP from ruling Lae and Justice (PiS) declared the seal a pest, dead seals started to appear across the Polish coast. Five have been found to date and all brutally killed, most likely by humans. The case is under police investigation and foundations for animal rights are offering a […]
In Silesia, a thief managed to steal a railway flyover. Impersonating a representative of an existing company, the 40-year-old man used forged papers to obtain permits, hire subcontractors, and, eventually, sell the stolen flyover. The flyover had been closed long before it caught the thief’s eye, which made the job all that much easier. The […]
The Control, Ethics and Disciplinary body of the Polish Football Federation (PZPN) has suspended the decision to close Lech Poznań’s stadium for one European match. This means that Lech will play Videoton Szekesfehervar on 20 August in fourth round of the Europa League in a full stadium. PZPN head and former world-class footballer Zbigniew Boniek […]
Increasingly more often, instead of passing suspended sentences, courts in Poland opt for alternative solutions, such as banning people convicted of fraud from conducting any form of business. The policy of Polish courts is shifting: there are fewer prison sentences of 5-8 years and more of 8-15 years. There are also fewer pronouncements of more […]
The Polish Lower House (Sejm) passed a law on the treatment of infertility at the end of June. The Senate did not make any amendments to it. Now, after much controversy and deliberation, President Bronisław Komorowski has signed the Act which allows in-vitro fertilisation to become legal in Poland. The procedure can be used by couples in wedlock and […]
The sexual abuse of women is still the most common form of human trafficking as far as Poland is concerned, according to Polish National Police data from 2014. According to the study, Poland is the destination country for victims of human trafficking from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Russia, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh and Thailand. On the […]
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