Four Mexican nationals were arrested on-site during the operation CBŚP has determined that they are part of an organized crime group involved in producing and distributing significant amounts of drugs within Poland The authorities confiscated nearly 120 liters of meth along with equipment and large quantities of chemicals necessary for its production The seized substances and equipment were sent for laboratory analysis with the total black market value of the drugs exceeding 7 million PLN (about 1.63 million EUR) ?￢ﾀﾍ♀️? @CBSPolicji zlikwidowali laboratorium ?￰ﾟﾧﾫ metamfetaminy w woj. podlaskim‼️Zatrzymano 4⃣ osoby, zabezpieczono blisko 1⃣2⃣0⃣ litrów narkotyku o czarnorynkowej wartości ponad 7⃣ mln PLN ?￰ﾟﾑﾊ⤵️https://t.co/9T9nzBufa0 pic.twitter.com/caNbiPDncW The detainees were transported to the District Prosecutor's Office in Bielsk Podlaski where they were charged with leading and participating in an organized crime group as well as producing large quantities of drugs imposed a three-month temporary detention on all four suspects Arsalan Azzaddin was seeing migrants from Iraq and Syria being brought into a hospital in eastern Poland every day with hypothermia This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2025 audio and/or video material shall not be published rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use The AP will not be held liable for any delays errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed opened a new state-of-the-art ultra thin high density fibreboard (UT-HDF) production plant in September 2011 Ultra thin high density fibre board production plant is one of the most innovative UT-HDF production facilities in the world which includes a sawmill and a value added production unit It was built with an investment of €140m ($182m) about seven miles south-east of Bielsk Podlaski This location was chosen because of its proximity to the raw material sources The ultra thin hardboard produced by the factory is supplied to Polish Scandinavian and Lithuanian furniture manufacturers Swedspan obtained a construction permit for its UT-HDF mill in June 2010 Construction on the project was officially launched 30 days later and the factory achieved hot start in June 2011 Shift production was started in September of the same year with the production complex occupying 60ha The buildings cover an area of 48,000 square metres The highest point at the factory is the WESP chimney Annual production capacity of the UT-HDF plant is 250,000 cubic metres of raw boards An integrated sawmill was commissioned at the site in the first quarter of 2012 as well as to the furniture manufacturers co-operating with IKEA The produced wood will also be sold to other firms present in the Polish market Annual planks production capacity of the sawmill is 60,000 cubic metres and sort-out capacity is 350,000 cubic metres The value added production unit is the third building block of the production complex where the panels are cut to size and foiled Its annual production capacity is 80,000 cubic metres of foiled boards The project has created jobs for about 250 people; more than 85% of them are from Podlaskie region The UT-HDF production complex is equipped with specially engineered and fabricated machines supplied by leading companies from Germany The plant is installed with a 23m long and 2.85m wide continuous press line supplied by German machinery manufacturing company Dieffenbacher it is reportedly the fastest UT-HDF production line ever assembled supplied a complete set of front-end system for the plant installation and commissioning of the machinery for preparation of logs into fibre The company also supplied and installed a Defibrator system The front-end system is designed to produce superior quality fibre at lower manufacturing costs and environmental impact The wood yard is fitted with GentleFeed infeed system It is used to feed logs into EasyTyre barking drum is used to identify and separate saw logs from industrial logs which processes the sorted logs at the speed of 120m/min Valon Kone has supplied its VK5048HD debarker machine which is fitted with a hydraulic tool pressure and designed to debark small and lightweight logs The added production unit is installed with one of the most advanced cut-to-size lines It can produce up to 74 cubic metres of cut boards each hour In August 2004 Gillette Poland International began construction of a new 92,600m² manufacturing and packaging facility Low grade pulp wood sourced from local forests is used to manufacture UT-HDF at the Swedspan Polska factory The logs are first debarked and then chipped the chips are heated up with hot water and steam They are then put in a refiner for disintegration into fibre They are then dried up and shaped into a mat In order to ensure full curing of the glue first in a cold state and then at a high temperature The output is the board with good surface qualities and first-class thickness tolerances The thickness of the UT-HDF produced at the factory ranges from 1mm to 3mm while the master board formats measure 1.87m to 2.85m in width and 4.8m to 6.3m in length The UT-HDF factory is built as per the prevailing environmental regulations in Poland About 90% of the water used in manufacturing process is recycled and re-used The production plant has near zero wastage of wood An integrated biomass power plant produces enough thermal energy to cover the entire heat energy requirements of the factory It meets up to one-fourth of power consumption by the plant The biomass plant utilises the wastes produced during the manufacturing process Stora Enso is a renewable materials and packaging company with its headquarters in Finland and Sweden Finland’s Suominen Flexible Packaging a major flexible packaging material supplier in northern Europe installed a second Proslit slitter at its Grodzisk Mazowiecki factory in Poland in May 2005 Amid constant financial pressure and consumer demands for greener and more sustainable packages the packaging industry is in a constant battle to save on costs and production materials Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who died on October 31 at age 90 may have been unaware that his celebrated film role as James Bond could possibly have included lines about how he preferred Manischewitz kosher wine Rabbi Raphael Zarum of the London School of Jewish Studies has argued that the character of Bond might be based on a certain Sidney Reilly (c. 1873–1925), a Russian-born agent for Scotland Yard and the British Secret Service Reilly was known as the Ace of Spies, and his precise origins are still debated but historians generally agree that he was Jewish born either Zigmund Rozenblum in Odessa; Georgy or Salomon Rosenblum in the Russian Empire’s Kherson Governorate; or Sigmund Rosenblum in Bielsk Podlaski The uncertainty surrounding Reilly/ Rozenblum/ Rosenblum indicates his skill as an agent never dated anyone named Pussy Galore or Kissy Suzuki Reilly had a tryst in 1920s Berlin with Pepita Bobadilla a blonde-haired dancer who claimed South American heritage despite being born in the UK as Nelly Burton Reilly eventually married Pepita/Nelly but since he was already married to someone else at the time This was not the only time that Reilly committed bigamy Seen by fellow spies as a reckless risk-taker, comparable to Bond’s own derring-do, Reilly was eventually executed in Moscow by the Joint State Political Directorate Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett argues that while Reilly’s exploits were widely known Fleming acquired special insights into his career from a former colleague of Reilly’s Yet as Lockhart noted, when asked directly whether Reilly had inspired the character of Bond Fleming demurred: “James Bond is just a piece of nonsense I dreamed up The quest to find Jewish sources for Bond characters may be frustrated by the fact that Fleming’s novels were merely intended as flimsy entertainments Early readers of the Bond series found them so essentially lacking in Yiddishkeit that a 1960s parody appeared by Sol Weinstein in Playboy Magazine about a spy named Israel Bond, code number Oy Oy Seven, in adventures entitled “Loxfinger” and similar fairly obvious gags Richler added that as a writer of dialogue, Fleming “had a resoundingly tin ear,” citing a speech by one character, Sol “Horror” Horowitz, an American Jewish mobster, from “The Spy Who Loved Me”: was not only fashionable but a good doctor He was one of the Jewish refugee doctors who would have been looking after some big hospital in a town the size of Düsseldorf rich and grateful patients had built a modern clinic for him in Nassau where he treated the natives for shillings and the millionaires and their wives for ten guineas a visit.” When not mentioning such Jewish exiles, Fleming preferred to retain a certain ambiguity about potential Jewish roots of villains. He described Le Chiffre in “Casino Royale” as having “small ears with large lobes (indicating some Jewish blood).” This appears to echo bogus Nazi physiology, as expressed in such writings as “How to Tell a Jew,” a short story from a children’s book “The Poisonous Toadstool” (“Der Giftpilz”; 1938) by Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher in which a schoolteacher informs his pupils that the ears of Jews are “very large and they look like the handles of a coffee cup.” Fleming named his supervillain Auric Goldfinger to tease the Hungarian Jewish architect Ernő Goldfinger who in the 1930s controversially demolished some picturesque cottages in Hampstead to build an ultra-modernist home for himself Snowman appears as himself in a 1963 James Bond story, “The Property of a Lady,” where he is described flatteringly: very well-dressed man of about forty rose from a group of men.” The narrative proceeds to discuss Snowman’s authentic expertise in the subject of Fabergé eggs. As if in reparation, most recently the English Jewish crime writer Anthony Horowitz has been licensed by the Fleming estate to publish new Bond-themed novels. for many the most admired screen actor who portrayed James Bond today’s Jewish readers might be glad that Ian Fleming did not write more often about the Jews Rather than striving to identify Yiddishkeit in Bond’s racist we may hope to relegate him to the unhappy past Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward American Jews need independent news they can trust At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association the Polish Bishops Conference commemorates 108 Beatified Polish Martyrs of World War II who were killed by the Nazis They were declared Blessed on 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw.Bishops priest from Myszyniec (1903-1942 KZ Dachau)Aleksy Sobaszek priest (1895-1942 KL Dachau)Alfons Maria Mazurek priest (1898-1942 KL Dachau)Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz priest (1882-1942 KL Dachau)Anicet Kopliński priest in Warsaw (1875-1941)Antoni Beszta-Borowski shot near Bielsk Podlaski)Antoni Leszczewicz dean of the Cathedral Chapter in Sandomierz (1869-1942 KL Dachau)Antoni Świadek priest from Bydgoszcz (1909-1945 KL Dachau)Antoni Zawistowski priest (1882-1942 KL Dachau)Bolesław Strzelecki priest (1896-1941 KL Auschwitz)Bronisław Komorowski priest (1889-22 March 1940 KL Stutthof)Dominik Jędrzejewski priest (1886-1942 KL Dachau)Edward Detkens priest (1885-1942 KL Dachau)Edward Grzymała priest (1887-1942 KL Dachau)Fidelis Chojnacki priest (1912-1942 KL Dachau)Franciszek Dachtera priest (1910-23 August 1942 KL Dachau)Franciszek Drzewiecki he was condemned to heavy work in the plantation of Dachau While he was bending over tilling the soil he adored the consecrated hosts kept in a small box in front of him for the Church and for our Country".Franciszek Rogaczewski priest (1889-1942 KL Dachau)Henryk Hlebowicz shot at Borisov in Belarus)Henryk Kaczorowski priest from Włocławek (1888-1942)Henryk Krzysztofik religious priest (1908-1942 KL Dachau)Hilary Paweł Januszewski religious priest (1907-1945 KL Dachau)Jan Antonin Bajewski priest (1915-1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God's cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at AuschwitzJan Franciszek Czartoryski priest (23 March 1902-9 May 1941 KL Mauthausen)[2]Józef Czempiel priest (1883-1942 KL Mauthausen)Józef Innocenty Guz priest (1890-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)Józef Jankowski Kashubia (died 16 October 1941 in KL Auschwitz beaten by kapo)Józef Kowalski priest beaten to death on 3 July 1942 in the KL Auschwitz concentration camp.[3]Józef Kurzawa priest (1905-1942 KL Dachau)Józef Pawłowski priest (1890-9 January 1942 KL Dachau)Józef Stanek priest (1885-1942 KL Dachau)Karol Herman Stępień priest (1884-1942 KL Dachau)Kazimierz Grelewski priest (1907-1942 KL Dachau)Kazimierz Sykulski priest (1882-1942 KL Auschwitz)Krystyn Gondek priest (1909-1942 KL Dachau)Leon Nowakowski priest (1909-1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God's cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at AuschwitzLudwik Roch Gietyngier priest from Częstochowa (1904-1941 KL Dachau)Maksymilian Binkiewicz priest (1903-22 March 1940 KL Stutthof)Marian Konopiński priest (1907-1 January 1943 KL Dachau)Marian Skrzypczak priest (1909-1939 shot in Plonkowo)Michał Oziębłowski priest (1900-1942 KL Dachau)Michał Piaszczyński priest (1885-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)Michał Woźniak priest (1875-1942 KL Dachau)Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz priest (1877-1942 KL Dachau)Narcyz Turchan priest (1879-1942 KL Dachau)Piotr Edward Dankowski priest (1908-3 April 1942 KL Auschwitz)Roman Archutowski priest (1880-1942 KL Auschwitz)Stanisław Kubista priest (1898-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)Stanisław Kubski killed in Hartheim near Linz)Stanisław Mysakowski priest (1896-1942 KL Dachau)Stanisław Pyrtek priest (1899-1941 KL Dachau)Wincenty Matuszewski priest (1910-4 March 1942 shot in Berezwecz)Władysław Mączkowski priest (1911-20 August 1942 KL Dachau)Władysław Miegoń commandor lieutenant (1892-1942 KL Dachau)Włodzimierz Laskowski priest (1886-1940 KL Gusen)Wojciech Nierychlewski friar (1905-1942 KL Dachau)Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak friar (1904-1945 KL Dachau)Marcin Oprządek friar (1884-1942 KL Dachau)Piotr Bonifacy Żukowski friar (1913-1942 KL Auschwitz)Stanisław Tymoteusz Trojanowski friar (1908-1942 KL Auschwitz)Symforian Ducki friar (1888-1942 KL Auschwitz)Nuns and religious sisters a nun killed in 1939 in the mass murders in Piaśnica.Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska executed at Góra Pietrelewicka near Slonim KL Stutthof); she died having contracted typhoid serving the Jewish women prisoners in a hut for which she had volunteered.Katarzyna Celestyna Faron (1913-1944 had offered her life for the conversion of an Old Catholic bishop Władysław Faron (no relation) She was arrested by the Gestapo and condemned to Auschwitz camp She put up heroically with all the abuses of the camp and died on Easter Sunday 1944 The bishop later returned to the Catholic Church).Maria Antonina Kratochwil SSND nun (1881-1942) died as a result of the torture she endured while imprisoned in Stanisławów.Maria Klemensa Staszewska alumnus (1915-1942 KL Dachau)Czesław Jóźwiak (1919-1942 guillotined in a prison in Dresden)Edward Kaźmierski (1919-1942 guillotined in a prison in Dresden)Edward Klinik (1919-1942 guillotined in a prison in Dresden)Franciszek Kęsy (1920-1942 guillotined in a prison in Dresden)Franciszek Stryjas (1882-31 July 1944 Kalisz prison)Jarogniew Wojciechowski (1922-1942 guillotined in a prison in Dresden)Marianna Biernacka (1888-13 July 1943) executed instead of her pregnant daughter-in-law offered her life for her unborn grandchildNatalia Tułasiewicz (1906-31 March 1945 died in KL Ravensbrück)Stanisław Starowieyski (1895-13 April 1941 KL Dachau)Tadeusz Dulny Tags: Poland, Polish Martyrs Polish EU Presidency: European Churches meet Minister for EU Affairs Poland honours those who died protecting Jews in WWII We offer publicity space for Catholic groups/organisations. See our advertising page if you would like more information ICN aims to provide speedy and accurate news coverage of all subjects of interest to Catholics and the wider Christian community As our audience increases - so do our costs You can support our journalism by advertising with us or donating to ICN Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information A labor shortage has increasingly emerged as one of the biggest hurdles for the European Union’s biggest eastern economy Now the remaining pool of available workers is drying up fast.