The shrine is on the official register of monuments, meaning vandalism of it can carry a prison sentence of up to two years.
Culture
Poland to investigate Brueghel painting stolen 50 years ago and now found in Netherlands
“Woman Carrying the Embers” by Pieter Brueghel the Younger disappeared from the National Museum in Gdańsk around 1974.
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Poland’s forgotten Nobel winner who wrote “Animal Farm” before Orwell
Filip Mazurczak
Twenty years before Orwell published “Animal Farm”, a now-forgotten Polish Nobel laureate wrote a remarkably similar novel.
Polish cultural institutions are rotting from the top down
Piotr Kosiewski
There is growing concern about the situation at two major public museums in Warsaw, highlighting the problems caused by how the current government exercises power.
Books are weapons: the Polish opposition press and the overthrow of communism
Siobhan Doucette
Siobhan Doucette discusses the content of her first book, “Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism”.
New film on Wołyń massacres unites Poles in praise – but reconciliation with Ukraine will be harder
Daniel Tilles
Daniel Tilles discusses the Wołyń massacres, the subject of a new film, and how they remain an obstacle to cordial Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Review of “Ida”: identity and freedom
Stanley Bill reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and remarks on accusations of stereotyping and antisemitism
