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Zegota veteran Bartoszewski turns 89 19.02.2011 Professor Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former internee at Auschwitz and veteran of Poland's WW II Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota) celebrates his 89th birthday today.
Communist-era student murder could have been accident 18.02.2011 The death of dissident student Stanislaw Pyjas in 1977, presumed to have been murdered by communist agents, may indeed have been an unfortunate, yet self-inflicted accident.
President decorates Poland's Muslim community leaders 17.02.2011 Marking the 85th anniversary of the Muslim Religious Association in Poland, President Komorowski has decorated prominent representatives of the community.
1981-2011 - echoes of student union victory 17.02.2011 Thirty years ago today, Poland's communist government relented and registered the Independent Students' Union (NZS), a branch of the Solidarity movement which included many activists who are now in government.
Who will play Walesa in biopic? 16.02.2011 A national daily has launched an online poll asking who would be the most ideal candidate to play Lech Walesa in the biopic of the Solidarity freedom fighter, to be directed by veteran moviemaker Andrzej Wajda.
Over half of Poles don’t read books 16.02.2011 Fifty six percent of adults in Poland did not read a single book last year, according to new a report by the National Library.
President to announce election date in March 16.02.2011 President Bronislaw Komorowski will announce the date of parliamentary elections in early March, minister at the president’s office Slawomir Nowak told Polish Radio this morning.
Talks held to resolve Roma bar ban in Poznan 16.02.2011 A meeting between restaurant owners and representatives of the Roma community are being held in Poznań western Poland today after claims the ethnic minority has been banned from bars and clubs.
Smolensk widow challenges crash committee 16.02.2011 The widow of the late General Andrzej Blasik is pushing for Russia's investigative committee into the air disaster last April which killed her husband to remove sensitive material from its website.
Elephant man loses safari court case 15.02.2011 A Polish businessman who sued a specialist travel agency after it failed to lay on elephants for him to shoot on safari lost his case yesterday in a court in Poznan, western Poland.
Daughter wants Lech Kaczynski monument in Warsaw 15.02.2011 Marta Kaczynska, daughter of the late president Lech Kaczynski says her father should have a monument built in his honour, as well as a second statue commemorating all 96 victims of the Smolensk air disaster.
Poland Comes First appeals for joint Smolensk commemorations 15.02.2011 Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, head of Poland Comes First, a centre-right breakaway party from Law and Justice, has called for a National Assembly on 10 April to commemorate the victims of the Smolensk catastrophe.
Warsaw Rising Museum architect dies 14.02.2011 Wojciech Obtulowicz, the architect of the acclaimed Warsaw Rising Museum and Poland's Pavilion at the Hanover World Expo 2000, has died in Krakow. He was 77.
Edelman mini-museum to open in Łodz 14.02.2011 The late Marek Edelman, one of the three commanders of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and a prominent dissident during the communist period, is to have his mini-museum dedicated to him in his home town of Łodz, central Poland.
Poles in love with Valentine's Day 14.02.2011 Chelmno, northern Poland, recently re-branded itself “city of the enamoured” following the rediscovery of a relic of St. Valentine, and to cash in on the new fashion for celebrating 14 February as the day especially dedicated to lovers.
Poles want united Smolensk anniversary commemoration 13.02.2011 A majority of Poles would like to see a return to the solemn atmosphere that united the nation after the death of President Kaczynski and 95 others in the plane crash in western Russia last April.

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