Orchestra Xmas charity returns Jan. 13
The 16th Great Finale of The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will collect money on Jan. 13 for children with larynx and vocal cord problems.
Read moreThe 16th Great Finale of The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will collect money on Jan. 13 for children with larynx and vocal cord problems.
Read moreThe 20th-Century history of Silesia and its inhabitants has come alive in Katowice. The play “Polterabend,” written in Silesian dialect by Stanislaw Mutz, has received a preview at the Silesian Theatre in Katowice.
Read moreAbout 50,000 homeless, poor and lonely ate free on Rynek Glowny (Main Market Square) last Thursday.
Read moreFifty border guards from Silesia will learn sign language during a 60-hour course.
Read moreA plaque to commemorate the great Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman was unveiled in Sosnowiec Dec. 5.
The plaque, made by Stanislaw Wozniak and Arkadiusz Koniusz, was placed in the tenement house in which the Szpilman family lived before World War II.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk has backed away from a campaign pledge to sign the EU’s Charter of Basic Rights because he needs President Lech Kaczynski’s support for a more important goal ? Poland’s passage of the EU Reform Treaty.
Read more“Sixty Poles say a Gdansk labor recruiting agency lured them to Sweden with promises of skilled jobs that didn’t exist ? and they ended up doing backbreaking work crushing rocks and clearing forests.
And, they say, they weren’t even paid for the work. ”
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The European Commission plans to give 124 mln euro to the Rail Baltica project. The trans-European railway ? linking Helsinki, Finland; Tallinn, Estonia; Riga, Latvia; Kaunas, Lithuania; Warsaw, and continuing on to Berlin ? is to be developed within the boundaries of the cooperating EU member states.”
An exhibition of 300 pictures with the chilling name of “Chechnya: The Final Solution” opens Friday in Krakow City Hall.
Read moreThe local council in Chrzanow has accepted the proposal of Mayor Ryszard Kosowski to regard St. Nicholas as the city’s new patron.
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