Facebook has reversed a decision that prevented a documentary film about a WWII Nazi German camp for Polish children from being promoted abroad after media coverage yesterday highlighted the decision. The makers of the film discovered that Facebook had blocked the film being promoted outside of Poland because Facebook considered it to be political.
A spokeswoman for the film maker said that the film presents only facts about the camp. The documentary is about a camp set up by German occupiers in the central Polish city of Łódź in 1942. The camp was intended for Polish children aged from 6 to 16, but children as young as several months old were also detained there.
Source – Polskie Radio
One of Poland’s top comic artists dies
One of Poland’s most acclaimed graphic novel artists, Henryk Chmielewski, has died at the age of 97. Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski, known under the alias Papcio Chmiel, was famous for his „Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek” comic book series. The series debuted in 1966 and told the story of an anthropomorphic chimpanzee by the name of Tytus, who struggles to become human. Chmielewski created 31 books in the series, with the last one published in 2008. Papcio Chmiel’s graphic novels are characteristic for their puns, word play and absurdist humour. His work, aimed mainly at young people, often explores Polish history, art and science.
Source – Polskie Radio
Sick Pole stranded in the UK granted diplomatic passport to return to Poland
A Polish man who is in a coma in a hospital in Plymouth in Great Britain has been issued with a diplomatic passport so that he can safely be repatriated to Poland, after it emerged that the hospital in the UK was preparing to turn off the man’s life support machine. The man had a heart attack in November last year and has since been in a coma in the hospital in the UK where doctor’s have diagnosed severe and permanent brain damage and decided to withdraw life support. The man’s wife and children in the UK agreed, but his mother and sister in Poland and sister in the UK did not agree. The Polish government intervened after a court order in the UK also agreed with doctors that the man should be allowed to die.
Source – wPolityce.pl
Jewellery store robbery in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz
And finally, a robbery occurred around lunchtime yesterday at a jewellery shop on Grundwalzka street in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz when three masked men entered the shop and sprayed staff and customers with pepper spray before making off with jewellery worth up to 50,000 PLN. Police believe the men were not Polish citizens, noting that they had eastern sounding accents indicating they may have been Russian or Ukrainian. One woman was injured during the raid as she was pushed over by the attackers when they entered the store. The perpetrators walked away from the scene, but Police believe they had a getaway car nearby.
Source – trojmiasto.pl
Weather
Today will be a cloudy day with rain and sleet at times and temperatures reaching 5 degrees centigrade (41 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 1 degree overnight. Sunday will be a cloudy day with sunny spells and scattered showers and temperatures of 3 degrees centigrade during the day and -1 degrees overnight.
That was the Radio Gdańsk English news and weather.
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