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Max Factor
Max Faktor (or Faktorowicz), born in Łódź in 1877, has come to be regarded as the father of modern day cosmetics.... -
Leon Schiller
Born in Kraków in 1887 he graduated from the cities Jagiellonian Univeristy with degrees in philosophy and Polish Literature under his belt, before pursuing further academic titles at the Sorbonne in Paris.... -
Krzysztof Kieślowski
The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941- 1996) is known and respected the world over as a maker of great feature films.... -
Enigma
The vital role played by Polish exiles during the Battle of Britain, who represented one in eight Allied pilots and whose 303 Squadron boasted the best hit rate against the Luftwaffe, is today common knowledge.... -
The Syrenka
The sight of a Polish Maluch – a flimsy death trap on wheels – is still common on the streets of Poland.... -
General Wojciech Jaruzelski
Born to landed Polish gentry in 1923 and sent to a forced labour camp in Kazakhstan by invading Soviet forces in 1940, Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is perhaps one of life’s most unlikely committed communists.... -
The Polish Dwarf
Born near the Polish city town of Halicz in 1739, Józef Boruwlaski rates as one of Poland’s most curious natives.... -
Hot Beer
There’s a number of ways to survive winter in Poland, and we’ve tried them all; from dressing up like Eskimos to eating loads of fat and staying home.... -
Marek Grechuta
With his catchy spoken lyrics, roaring drink habit and rumoured schizophrenia, Marek Grechuta was the embodiment of tortured genius, his place in Polish music history cast in stone – think of this guy as the Polish Bob Dylan.... -
Blofeld
James Bond; roving womanizer, man of mystery and secret agent supreme. But what’s he got to do with Gdynia? Absolutely nothing, to be precise.... -
Witkacy
Eccentric, flamboyant and tragic, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - remembered as ‘Witkacy’ (1885-1939) – was one of Poland’s premier avant-garde icons.... -
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Until September 7th art fans visiting Ujazdowski Castle have the opportunity to view the works of Magdalena Abakanowicz, one of Poland’s best known sculptors.... -
Edward Gierek
Born in Zagórze, an outlying district of Sosnowiec, Edward Gierek (1913 – 2001) is best remembered as the man who took Poland to the brink of bankruptcy with his half-mad economic policies.... -
Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday might sound strange to those of you who are used to the literal translation of the French term Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), but in Poland the last Thursday before Lent begins is just as gluttonous, though....
True crime
Four years after he published a gruesome bestseller filled with sex and violence, author Krystian Bala found himself jailed for 25 years, guilty of orchestrating a murder almost identical to the one he described in his book, Amok. Convinced his ex-wife was sleeping with Wrocław businessman, Dariusz Janiszewski, Bala sought to score the ultimate revenge. Janiszewski disappeared in 2000, his body discovered four weeks later floating in the River Odra. Pathologist reports later proved he had been bound, starved, tortured and strangled, before being tipped in the river and left to drown. With little evidence to go on law enforcement abandoned the investigation after six months and the case file was allowed to gather dust until fate intervened years later. A police officer came across an online discussion about Amok, and put two and two together and an investigation was launched into Bala. Circumstantial evidence started stacking up and Bala was finally convicted in September.
