Time Out magazine ranked Kraków’s tree ahead of the famous one at the Rockefeller Center in New York.
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Carp in the bath, hay on the table and Home Alone: the most unusual Polish Christmas traditions
Agata Pyka and Richard Greenhill
From talking animals to Macauley Culkin, here are seven of Poland’s most interesting Christmas traditions.
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Gang disrupts Ukraine famine film screening organised by Polish institute in Moscow
Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s “Mr Jones” was being shown at the Memorial NGO.
Award-winning Polish director takes on WWII pogrom of Jews in latest film
Nicholas Hodge
Unlike previous directors, Wojciech Smarzowski depicts the massacre directly.
Polish city hopes for tourism boost from change to national anthem
The government has proposed swapping the order of the second and third verses of Dąbrowski’s Mazurka.
“Silesian tale” wins Poland’s top literary prize as ceremony hit by protests over border crisis
Zbigniew Rokita won the 25th Nike Literary Award for “Kajś”, a book of reportage on the Upper Silesia region.
Polish house named best private residence at international architecture awards
The modern house was inspired by the region’s traditional wooden architecture.
Netflix thriller set amid anti-gay operation in communist Poland
Operation Hyacinth saw the security services gather information on thousands of gay men with the aim of blackmailing them.
UK’s first major exhibition of Young Poland art movement to open in London
The movement emerged at a time when Poland had been wiped off the map of Europe.
Beyond Geralt: The Witcher universe now faces its biggest challenge
Mateusz Perowicz
Can Poland take better advantage of The Witcher’s success?
Poland’s first comics museum planned in Kraków
An initial exhibition will open this Friday.
Jewish leaders protest Warsaw gallery’s anti-“cancel culture” exhibition featuring hate-speech artist
The government-funded exhibition features an artist linked to neo-Nazis.
How artists created Polish national styles at a time when Poland did not exist
Aleksandra Janiszewska
With Poland partitioned between three imperial powers, art bound Poles together and preserved identity.
Polish city auctions remains of 18th century palace that served as Nazi HQ
Hatzfeld Palace in Wrocław was mostly destroyed in WWII.
