Lodz, Poland News

Polish nuns have opened a chain of discos call Heaven - where they've banned booze, cigarettes and snogging.

A novel detailing the heartache and hope of a World War II Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz has earned author Steve Sem-Sandberg Sweden's most prestigious prize for literature.

It's no wonder, with splurges like this, that companies ran into financial difficulty.

RYANAIR is taking the fight for supremacy at Liverpool John Lennon airport to rival Easyjet with three new routes and extra frequency on existing links.

Poland is thought to be mono-cultural countries. Indeed, in the streets of most of Polish cities you will not meet people of different color or race .

Esther Hautzig wrote one of the most beautiful, unique contributions to WWII children's literature - The Endless Steppe .

A Polish medical official says that a 48-year-old man infected with the swine flu virus has died.

A HOLOCAUST survivor educated school pupils in St Albans about his experiences of the Auschwitz concentration camp this week.

THE DUBLIN sales and support operations of computer-maker Dell suffered a 22 per cent drop in pretax profits in 2009.

The exuberant Jewish retirees gathering for their 26th summer at a modest Catskills bungalow colony in Andrew Jacobs 's documentary "Four Seasons Lodge" appear like any group of older Americans on vacation.

Tati stays in Gwersyllt 2004 May Lukasz Reszpondek, 30, from Lodz, Poland, comes to UK and starts working at Dairy Crest in Marchwiel, near Wrexham Summer 2004 Reszpondek meets Tati, 41, who is doing temporary work at the dairy.

Date : Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:54:50 PST news.az, Azerbaijan Nov 7 2009 Polish students decide against shooting a film in Karabakh Sat 07 November 2009 04:55 GMT Gates to Shusha Two students at the Polish film school in Lodz have decided against making a film about Shusha in the occupied Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. They rethought their plans ...

Following an article titled "Polish students make a film about Shusha City of Karabakh" posted in Regnum.ru news portal, Azerbaijani embassy in Poland had a meeting with Mateush Vayda and Pavel Zelmitski, students of Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz to discuss their alleged Shusha trip.

Historian Samuel Kassow will share Emanuel Ringelblum's extraordinary record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

As a teenager, Mira Hamermesh defied her parents and fled Nazi-occupied Poland. Her mother starved to death in the Lodz ghetto, her father perished in Auschwitz.

Louise Bourgeois, Tits, 1967. Bronze, silver nitrate and polished patina, 12 x 26.6 x 15.2 cm / 4 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 6 in.

Old heavyweight fighters never really retire ...they're just between bouts. This past weekend, 41-year-old Andrew Golota was TKO'd in five rounds by Tomasz Adamek , who moved up from cruiserweight for the big fight in Lodz, Poland.

In a battle between famed Polish fighters, Tomasz "Granite Chin" Adamek defeated Andrew Golota by TKO in the fifth round to capture the IBF International Heavyweight Title Saturday night at the Arena Lodz in Poland.

Photo by Simon Mikiewicz In what is billed as one of the biggest fights in Polish history, former heavyweight contender Andrew Golota will take on Tomasz Adamek this weekend.

POLISH people living and working in the Arbroath area will now be able to enjoy a taste of home thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of one of their countrymen.