Turkish defence company Aselsan has entered into a significant sales agreement with Polish firm AMZ Kutno the deal involves the export of advanced reconnaissance-surveillance mast systems for integration into Poland’s Light Armoured Reconnaissance Surveillance and Transport Vehicle (LOTR-Kleszcz) The agreement is part of a framework established in June which outlines the supply of 286 reconnaissance-surveillance systems and electronic components designed to enhance the operational capabilities of Poland’s armed forces The collaboration is expected to continue until 2035 with potential for future projects in other defence technologies Aselsan’s plans to establish a permanent office in Poland in 2024 are expected to support this partnership and facilitate broader cooperation between the companies The LOTR-Kleszcz project is considered a prominent initiative within Poland’s 2024 defence strategy AMZ Kutno’s involvement has strengthened its position in the defence sector recognised by the 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vehicles are equipped with devices for independently dismantling/mounting the assault ramp front and rear parking sensors with visual and acoustic signals The assault ramp mounted on the Tur VI chassis is equipped with two independent platforms each of which can automatically raise (to a minimum of 6 meters) and lower with at least six people positioned along its entire length The Tur VI outfitted with the assault ramp also features protection for the front windshield and engine hood in case of falling objects Assault ramps are proven equipment in anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism operations used for a long time by many special police and military units Such devices enable efficient and safe operations such as retaking a hijacked airplane or storming a multi-story building Climbing onto the fuselage or wing of a passenger jet using a ladder is dangerous— the slippery surface poses a risk of slipping or falling the facility will host a group of softball players and coaches seeking refuge from Ukraine who arrived at the Kutno facility on Monday “This is an unimaginably difficult time for everyone in Ukraine and we’re grateful that we will be able to provide these young softball players and their coaches not only a safe haven but also with facilities to continue to play the sport they love,” said Stephen D “While baseball and softball are trivial in comparison to the horrors Ukrainians are facing Little League is where communities can come together around the world We hope that this group has a meaningful stay in Kutno and that they are able to return home to a peaceful Ukraine very soon.” “We have such a strong Little League community throughout our Europe & Africa Region that is proud to support Little Leaguers in Ukraine welcoming them into their home leagues in neighboring countries and now willing to host these two tournaments,” said Beata Kaszuba-Baker Little League Europe & Africa Region Director “We are working hard to make sure that all Little Leaguers have a wonderful experience as these tournaments return for the first time since 2019 while also supporting these young female athletes and their coaches from Ukraine during this difficult time at our Kutno facility.” A former Ukrainian Little League coach first approached Little League Europe & Africa Region staff to inquire about using the Kutno facility to host a group of softball players from clubs throughout the country Kutno is approximately 250 miles from the Poland-Ukraine border Kaszuba-Baker and her staff collaborated with the group from Ukraine to work with the Polish government to begin the refugee process “On behalf of everyone at Little League for helping us support these refugees,” said Mr we are grateful for our friends in Netherlands and Italy for allowing us to relocate these tournaments at such short notice so that we can house these softball players while still providing a tournament for these Little Leaguers from countries throughout our Europe & Africa Region.” Click here to view her lecture on the topic at USC Read the article from Slate, "A Nazi's Documentary Photographs of the Forced Removal of Polish Jews, 1940" Source: Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg in der Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf.) On the day of the ghettoization of the Jews in Kutno in western Poland in June 1940 The picture above is one of his last shots of the day This shot might be a good starting point - a “punctum” so to say - as the image shows the end result of the ghettoization that happened on that very same day and gives an idea of the desperate situation of the Jewish population: left on the premises of an abandoned sugar factory outside the city center with a good share of their belongings out in the open with nowhere to live and nowhere to put their furniture in this open-air ghetto The image challenges how we usually imagine a ghetto as the setting is very much different from those in known ghettos such as Warsaw or Łódź/Litzmannstadt where the ghettos were set against the backdrop of cityscapes There has been a lot of research on ghettoization policy mainly based on perpetrator documents: population policy and the ghettoizations are seen as a form of social engineering and a history of competing institutions for example the question of what the dominant motives were (such as the prevalence of ideological vs But the actual results of the racist population policies of the Nazis the effects on the everyday lives of people are usually not central to these debates: what leaving apartments and belongings behind meant and what it looked like – emotionally as well as practically these moments of transfer have not been part of the established group of the same images that are being used in publications and exhibitions over and over again There are a few publications on the big and rather well-known ghettos in Warsaw in Łódź/Litzmannstadt that look into different aspects of the everyday lives of the inhabitants using photographs as well as diaries and other documents but much less so on smaller ghettos and nothing on the ghettoizations There are publications on life in the already established ghettos but most of the historical research is focused on structural questions like the function of the ghettos in the context of NS-population policy Therefore photography and the example of Hansen’s collection of images are perfectly suited to really look into this central moment in so many people’s lives (Hansen is the one standing to the left.) Photographer: Wilhelm Hansen Source: Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg in der Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf Wilhelm Hansen was born on January 9th 1898 in Schleswig The photo above shows Hansen and his fellow soldiers celebrating Christmas 1939 in Poland (Hansen is the one standing to the left) Hansen lived with his mother in a villa in a small village next to Schleswig From 1936 he worked as a teacher at the Cathedral school in Schleswig; he taught geography Wilhelm Hansen was drafted to the Wehrmacht Hansen applied for membership in the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party, on July 29, 1941, about a year after he had taken the photos of the ghettoization in Kutno. He was officially accepted on October 1st, 1941.[1] His former students and colleagues describe him as a loner and somewhat bizarre He was a passionate photographer way before his time as a German Wehrmacht soldier in Poland and his students and colleagues remember him with a camera at almost every occasion After WWII he discovered super-8-film cameras and started to document the local life around Schleswig gatherings of the local rifle associations It is unclear and impossible to reconstruct what his motivations were What we know for a fact is that he didn’t do much with his filmic and photographic material; he archived it and kept it mostly to himself It is only due to a fortunate coincidence that we have access to these photos today an archeologist and collector who was dealing with Hansen’s sisters house and her belongings after her death came across his photographic collection and identified their value Today you can find about 800 of Hansen’s photographs from the Warthegau in the archive of the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg Hansen took a series of 83 photographs on the day of the ghettoization of the Jews in Kutno on June 16 He basically spent all day documenting the forced move and “accompanying” the people who had to move their belongings to an abandoned sugar factory around 3 km outside the city center Kutno had a Jewish population of 6,700 by the beginning of WWII -- about 25 percent of the overall population The series gives us an idea of the whole process of the ghettoization The photos also enable us to reconstruct the way to the ghetto and the stops Hansen made along the way we can infer that Hansen moved around freely and did not try to hide his camera [1] Bundesarchiv Berlin In the city center of Kutno in the morning On the premesis of the abandoned sugar factory "Konstancja" Hansen’s photos give us a good sense of the whole process of the forced move And as much as his photos do help to bring out new aspects and perspectives one of the main problems of working with photographs from the time of the German occupation of Poland (1939-1945) is that there are almost no photos that were taken by Jewish Poles or Catholic Poles because the Nazi occupiers tried to control the means of production and therefore the access to photographic means of production was very asymmetrical: Jews were not allowed to own cameras and the use for non-Jewish Poles was strictly limited to the private sphere The German occupiers not only disowned photo labs owned by Poles and banned Polish professional photographers from employment Ingo Loose, a leading researcher in the field of Holocaust studies, has argued there was a camera ban in all Polish ghettos, as very few photographs exist in which Jews had any influence over the  production, motif or distribution.[1] Therefore it is important to keep in mind that the photographical sources that have come upon us today are mostly perpetrator and bystander photographs This particular set of photos at Kutno was taken by a privileged Reichs-German who was part of the occupying force; his perspective is reflective of that And the mere act of taking a photo itself in that situation adds yet another layer of violence to the situation the creation of a representation of this act of violence extends this act of violence and humiliation Even though photography was not a very common practice back then as it is today (in 1939 around 10 percent of the German population owned a camera) it is safe to assume that there was an awareness and understanding of the photographic situation on both sides Only going beyond the pictorial frame can bring back the agency of the photographed. This is also why the interviews with survivors in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive are an enormously valuable source in addition to the photographs – they help to bring back the voices and the individuality of the Jewish men in order to be able to see beyond pictorial frame They help to broaden the perspective on the process and also put the people being ghettoized more in the focus; they enable us to see more and help to make certain aspects visible Gordon Klasky -- who was born in 1915 in Lubraniec Poland -- spoke at length about the establishment of the ghetto in a 1995 interview conducted by USC Shoah Foundation: […] The Germans gave that order to the Jewish population that everybody has to report the next day to a certain place and this was called -- it used to be a factory that made sugar -- and it was called in Polish Konstancja And over there that Sunday we were allowed to take whatever we could The photographs do not only make the individuality of the people being photographed invisible Because of the absence of acts of violence as well as uniformed men and spectators/ bystanders at first sight the photographs do not convey the impression of a forced move but more of a self-organized move or process So the photos help to bring out the importance of the moment of the ghettoization like in the case of the Kutno ghetto which shows an – from our perspective today – unusual ghetto they make the force and violence that happened “invisible." Click here to watch a clip of Klasky's testimony the connection of photographic and oral sources allows the viewer to look beyond the pictorial frame and gives an idea of what happened outside the picture that day as well as what happened before and after the photograph was taken Yet another photograph taken by a German soldier after the establishment of the ghetto shows a barber stand in the Kutno ghetto Click here to watch a clip of testimony from another Kutno survivor, Barbara Stimler help to bring out aspects about the ghettoization of the Jews in Poland that have often been overlooked They draw attention to an unusual ghettoization – or at least one very much different from the ones known from popular images of the “big” ghettos in Warsaw which are published over and over again and show ghettos against the backdrop of a cityscape The series of 83 images by Hansen makes the ghettoization of the Jews in Kutno tellable No other sources allow us to talk about the ghettoization in such detail: horse carts that people were able to take to the ghetto in that particular case the perception of the ghetto space filled with people and belongings that are – from Hansen’s perspective – almost impossible to distinguish the desperate situation on the premises of the sugar factory at the end of the day when around 7000 people were basically just left alone there with their belongings the photographs also reproduce the perpetrators’ perspective The VHA interviews offer a perfect addition here The two different sources have different qualities: Hansen’s photographs as they are photos by a German perpetrator or at least bystander his focus is not on the people being ghettoized but more interested in the process on a “documentary” level They de-humanize people – the process of ghettoization does that in the first place of course – but the photos of the ghettoization seen through the eyes of the perpetrators who keep a distance and do not focus on the people perpetuate that In the process of ghettoization the Jewish population was forced into being a group and the photos reinforce that: they homogenize a diverse group of people The interviews from the Visual History Archive help us understand the context of the moment of ghettoization better from the perspective of the Jewish people who were forced to move that day They help us refine the context and also give us a much better understanding of the concrete situation of the individuals being subjected to this forced move and the diversity of people and experiences They therefore help to take a much more differentiated look at the situation of the people being ghettoized The interviews manage to convey a much more complex perspective on the very heterogeneous group of people that the photographs tend to homogenize for the viewer They bring out the unique and diverse voices of the survivors and help to present a more detailed and multi-perspective historical narrative Click here to read a scholarly summary of Werner's work by Martha Stroud the research program officer at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research [1]    An exception is the Getto Łódź: Loose [2] Klasky, Gordon, Interview.  Visual History Archive. USC Shoah Foundation. Internet. 28.11.2014. (http://www.vha.fu-berlin.de) [3] Interview Gordon Klasky, Visual History Archive, Freie Universität Berlin, www.vha.fu-berlin.de Sign Up Today! Be the first to learn about new articles and personal stories like the one you've just read Digital Accessibility | Accessibility Guidelines The Sholem Asch Festival: Poland Rediscovers a Yiddish Dramatist Every two years around this time I visit the Polish town of Kutno, for the Jewish festival named after my great-grandfather, the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch He was born there in 1880 in a single-story wooden house on one of the town’s main streets having grown weary of his religious studies but he returned at regular intervals to visit his mother Malka and his father’s grave in the Jewish cemetery at the edge of town few traces remain of Kutno’s rich Jewish past A shopping mall has replaced the Asch house Malka Asch’s lean-to courtyard dwelling has long gone and the Jewish cemetery and Kutno’s Great Synagogue Local history enthusiasts point out its pre-war landmarks: the rabbi’s house the apartment block built by Asch’s brother Wolf in 1912 is newly renovated Post-communist Kutno began to remember Asch in 1993 announcing a nationwide literary competition on a Jewish theme It’s been a feature of every subsequent festival attracting a remarkably high standard of entries This year 131 people from all over Poland submitted stories with the first prize awarded for a short story entitled “Esterka.” The Szalom Asz Festival is funded by the municipality and organized by a dedicated team of staff at the town’s library which is named after the Polish novelist Stefan Żeromski It’s grown steadily over the years and now involves schoolchildren teams of high school students were out in the streets completing a quiz about Kutno’s Jewish heritage Other events in this year’s festival included a Jewish song competition for students in the local theatre and a sit-down Jewish dinner cooked and served by students from Kutno’s catering college The Festival’s finale was a full-fledged production of Fiddler on the Roof by Warsaw’s State Jewish Theatre playing to a capacity crowd of several hundred in the town’s renovated Culture Palace Kutno’s Library is also bringing out impressive new translations of Asch’s works they published a handsome volume with new Polish translations of six Asch plays the Library commissioned a new translation of another play Bund fun der shvakhe (Alliance of the Weak Magdalena Ruta and edited by Professor Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska two of the leading contemporary Polish Yiddish scholars (The Library hopes to publish it in a second volume of Asch’s plays in translation.) One of the most impressive evenings of this year’s Festival featured students from Kutno’s Władysław Grabski High School no 3 They staged Asch’s one-act play Um vinter (In Winter) using the translation from the Library’s 2013 volume The piece is more about mood and atmosphere than plot Asch calls it a lebensbild - literally “a scene drawn from life,” a word Yiddish playwrights often use to describe a slice of city or shtetl life and a style of writing that can feel as much like poetry as drama Secondary school students in Kutno’s museum learning about Judaism as part of their quiz for the Asch Festival The action centers on a family group: Dvoyre is a widow struggling to keep her home together and anxious to marry off her two grownup daughters starting–according to tradition–with the eldest It was the first time students in Kutno have performed a complete play by Asch and I was curious to know more about the process of staging it “I started to think about staging the play when I realized that Asch’s plays had hardly been put on in Poland since his own lifetime,” Halina told me “Then I read all the plays published in Kutno for the 2013 Festival My colleague Grażyna Baranowska drew my attention to In Winter She pointed out that it’s much shorter than the other plays and so it’s easier for inexperienced actors to learn.” Learning about the old Jewish cemetery (on the hill) “We used the new translation from the book but we made some changes to make the text more comprehensible for both actors and audience; for example we replaced some old-fashioned words with their contemporary equivalents We also added a short passage from Asch’s novella Dos shtetl (The Little Town)–a description of a severe winter that the older sister reads when she’s standing by the window We also used extracts from three stories from a Polish volume of Asch’s short stories For two reasons: to make the play a little longer and to add some more description of what life was like in poor Jewish communities at that time.” it was their first contact with Jewish literature and culture it was a chance for us to help them learn about Sholem Asch and about the shared Jewish-Polish society in Kutno before the war We’re already thinking about staging another Asch play for the next Festival in 2017 about a young bride who refuses to have her hair cut off and wear a wig on her marriage.” the Festival also included an academic symposium – a public platform for some of Poland’s leading young scholars of Yiddish literature Lublin-based academic Monika Szabłowska-Zaremba spoke about her research on the Polish-language Jewish press She has discovered some fascinating reports including one in the main Polish-language Jewish daily Nasz Przegląd (Our Review) on 20 July 1927 Headlined “Warsaw thieves celebrate Sholem Asch’s fame and literary reputation,” it’s a surreal crime report with a delightful denouement: An extraordinary theatrical type of theft was committed yesterday on the streets of Warsaw; a ‘virtuoso’ performance ’artistic maestros,’ took Sholem Asch’s famous play Motke Ganev (Motke the Thief) right off the stage and into the street or reformed it (we’ll leave it to the critics to decide) adding two new roles: an organ-grinder and a singer Nobody could fault the quality of the performances They staged the play not for the gratification of the theatre audience but in the ‘exalted’ spirit of ‘art for art’s sake.’ Here’s how the performance played out: Sholem Asch’s brother lives in a third floor four-room apartment at 22 Asch left for Krynica; his wife and children had previously gone to holiday in Urle He took extra measures to protect the apartment with locks and padlocks and left it under the watchful eye of the janitor Who would have thought that the janitor (even if he was unfamiliar with the play Motke Ganev) wouldn’t be able to look after the apartment Yesterday afternoon an organ-grinder appeared in the courtyard with a ‘singer.’ It’s a regular sight in the Jewish quarter so nobody thought anything unusual was going on when the organ-grinder sang songs from Asch’s play Motke Ganev for over an hour people started shouting “thieves have broken into Mr Asch’s place.” The doors to the apartment were smashed and the wardrobes emptied out: the thieves even stole the carpets and took several hundred dollars in cash And now - the final act: on one of the tables they left a note in Yiddish with this message: We are truly sorry but as you must know we also need to make a living Regards to our beloved Sholem Asch–expert on our fraternal soul.” And the signature on the note It’s a wonderful anecdote, not just because of the Warsaw thieves’ tongue-in-cheek sense of dramatic irony, but also for what it tells us about Asch’s reputation in Poland. By the late 1920s, he was approaching the height of his fame and popularity as a novelist and dramatist. Theatre hits were a key part of that, not least the long-running dramatization of his novel Motke Ganev set in the Polish-Jewish criminal underworld Pre-1939 Poland was stubbornly resistant to the idea that the rich Yiddish cultural world in its midst was part and parcel of national life There were few Polish translations of major Yiddish classics or Polish-language productions of Yiddish plays the dozens of Jewish festivals in towns and cities across Poland are playing an important part in changing that More photographs of pre-World War II Kutno are found here Excerpts from In Fayer un Flamen: Togbukh fun a Yidisher Shoyshpilerin (In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Yiddish Actress) by Shoshana Kahan (Part II) Excerpts from In Fayer un Flamen: Togbukh fun a Yidisher Shoyshpilerin (In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Yiddish Actress) by Shoshana Kahan (Part I) Osherowitch and Rumshinsky on the Piety of Regina Prager Khine Braginskaya: The Earliest Days of the Yiddish Theatre in Russia How Two Nudniks Saved History from the Fire Interview with Joshua Horowitz on the Orchestration of Bas-Sheve Vos flist durkhn oder: A conversation with playwright Mikhl Yashinsky on his new play SITE BY FAMILIAR News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries 14-Jan-2019 Last updated on 14-Jan-2019 at 11:55 GMT The investment is part of the group’s expansion plans for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, according to senior company representatives. The producer has obtained a permission to invest in the Kutno subzone of the Łódź special economic zone (ŁSSE). Under the plan, Kellogg will expand its existing facility, which will be fitted with additional production capacities to make Pringles. Locating its investment in a special economic zone will enable Kellogg with preferential tax treatment for the project. In return, the manufacturer will be obliged to maintain a declared workforce in the coming years. “This marks the fourth undertaking of the US company in the Kutno subzone of the Łódź SSE,” the zone said in a statement. “In terms of its value, according to the declared amount [that is to be invested by Kellogg], this is the largest investment project in the history of the Kutno subzone”. Gráinne O’Brien, director of external communications and brand PR for Kellogg Europe, told BakeryandSnacks that the purpose of launching the new production line in Kutno is to help the company meet the growing demand for Pringles across the EMEA region. “The brand is experiencing double digit growth across the region, so we need to increase our current production capability,” she said. “Approval has been given to begin the installation of a new Pringles line in the existing Kutno facility, which will help us to meet growing demand for Pringles across the region and increase our current capacity.” “We are currently in the planning application phase and subject to planning, we hope to commence construction [this year], for completion in late 2020.” Asked how the investment in Poland fits into the producer’s expansion strategy for the Central-Eastern European region, O’Brien said, “Increasing our production capacity at Kutno will greatly enable Kellogg’s ability to continue to meet the significant growth we have experienced, not only in the CEE area, but within the wider EMEA region.” In a bid to diversify its product portfolio, in May 2012, Kellogg completed the acquisition of the Pringles brand from Protect & Gamble under a deal worth $2.695bn. As part of the transaction, the group took over the manufacturing resources in Jackson, Tennessee, and Mechelen, Belgium. However, the company announced in late 2018 it was considering the sale of its cookies business, including brands such as Keebler, Famous Amos, Mother's and Murray, and its fruit snacks business, including the company’s Stretch Island brand 'to enable [it] to bring a sharper focus to its core businesses.’ “Kellogg Company’s Deploy for Growth Strategy, announced earlier [in 2018], calls for the company to sharpen our focus and align our resources around our biggest opportunities to grow our top line and return to long-term sustainable growth,” added Steve Cahillane, chairman and chief executive. Kellogg has been active in the Polish municipality since 2007 through subsidiary UMA Investments Ltd, which operates facilities in Kutno. The Pringles factory was opened in 2014 and a year later, construction work was launched on a logistics centre. The 13,000m2 (13,9930 square foot) facility was developed by Panattoni Europe and consists of a packaging zone, a storage zone and offices. Kellogg has launched a limited edition ‘Pringles Thanksgiving Dinner’ for the upcoming holiday in the US. Rethinking ingredient lists: Innovations in egg reduction and replacementPaid for and content provided by CSM Group (CSM Ingredients & HIFOOD) Trade and transparency: Why digital supplier management is key to supply chain successPaid for and content provided by TraceGains Better-for-you snacks that deliver on indulgence - how can formulators succeed?Paid for and in partnership with Griffith Foods Home / Sports The 2008 Cedar Rapids Washington grad grew up hearing Polish spoken by his maternal grandparents Now he hopes to one day represent the Poland national team in international baseball Phil Richmond hung around the minor-league ballpark in Cedar Rapids collecting autographs of future Angels such as the late Nate Adenhart in 2006 and getting to videotape an interview with Mike Trout “I also grew up right near where the field is at Coe,” said Richmond who played there after attending Kirkwood Community College A 2008 Washington High graduate Richmond also grew up hearing Polish spoken by his maternal grandparents who had emigrated from Poland in Eastern Europe after World War II Richmond never dreamed he would end up living in Poland and chasing his baseball dreams as a right-handed pitcher and sometimes position player “I had no idea baseball existed in Poland,” said Richmond who played pro independent ball in New Mexico New York state and California before taking the mound for the first time in Poland in 2019 Richmond sat in a French coffee shop in the capital of Warsaw a city of about 1.8 million that saw about 85 percent of its buildings destroyed during World War II but is now called the New York City of Eastern Europe by some admirers he used a website that helps mostly American baseball players find jobs overseas He had hoped to play in Italy or the Netherlands two of the top countries for baseball in Europe but wound up in Poland — which did not qualify for the 16-team European championships last summer in the Czech Republic I thought it would be a good reason to go to Europe,” Richmond said Richmond is one of the few Americans to play in the Polish league in the past few years who played at East Central University in his native Oklahoma Polish American Ray Wojtala knows how unusual it is for an American to play baseball in Poland “When I came to Poland over 10 years ago there weren’t very many Americans playing baseball in Poland and it was rare for a team to have a full-time player,” Wojtala but we see teams investing in bringing in full-time players from the U.S as well as other countries to be competitive in Poland as well as at international tournaments but I think the biggest is how teams and players approach the sport Players usually are not full-time players and have jobs or families which means that baseball is not a priority for a lot of players but rather a passion It is also difficult to get the sport into schools which is key to getting younger children involved and interested The language barrier is the smallest issue as just about everyone can speak basic English if they are not already fluent.” Thanks to his experience at the college and pro level — a rarity for Polish players — Richmond was a coach for national team of Poland in 2022 at a tournament in Belgrade That is a long way from the field of Cedar Rapids Richmond was not highly recruited out of high school or while at Kirkwood “I really thought I was going to go Division II “There were some issues with recruiting.” His first pro experience took place with two teams in the New Mexico PECO Indy league in 2013 He posted a record of 0-1 with an ERA of 6.23 in 13 games with no starts and three saves in the short-lived Mount Rainier League in 2015 He played for a club team in Australia in 2016-17 then for Sullivan in the Empire League in 2017 in New York The right-hander made his first appearance in the Pacific Association with Martinez named after the Yankees’ Hall of Famer he played in Poland for the first time with a team in Kutno — about 80 miles west of Warsaw While with the team in Kutno until the beginning of last season he played his home games at Stan Musial Field Musial was born in western Pennsylvania to a mother of East Slavic descent and a father who was a Polish immigrant came to Kutno in 1987 to give a clinic to Polish youth a former pitcher who broke into the majors with the Cubs in 1956 Drabowsky is one of just four natives of Poland to play in the majors and the only one to appear in the World Series He was the winning pitcher in Game 1 out of the bullpen He was born in 1935 and left southeast Poland in 1938 with his American mother as Hitler was coming to power in Germany Drabowsky’s Polish father joined the family about a year later in Connecticut; Germany invaded Poland in 1939 Drabowsky grew up on a small farm with his parents in Ozanna “They were raising chickens in their backyard,” Rita Drabowsky said in a telephone interview from Florida “He was out there and that was just toys for him at 2 or 3 years old It was not a big farm thing; it was just raising these chickens “I didn’t know about him going to Poland before I came here,” Richmond said of Musial Richmond had been commuting several times a week from Warsaw to play in Kutno Richmond switched to a club in Warsaw — Centaury He had to miss a few games due to complicated transfer rules but Richmond was eventually able to suit up for Centaury He is back with the team this season and there is plenty of international flavor with players Richmond said the club includes a few players with American fathers He once had a fastball that reached the mid-90s but after some shoulder problems he is happy these days if he can reach the upper 80s Richmond sees action as a position player when he is not pitching “I had not hit in like 10 years; it has been a learning experience,” said Richmond The level of play in Poland is certainly several steps below NCAA Division I college baseball in the United States “The high-end talent here could be at star at a competitive (junior college) like Kirkwood,” he said And while making the Polish national team this year is not likely or even a goal Richmond is aiming to do just that before he stops playing “I figure I have four more good years left to do it,” said Richmond who has applied for his Polish residence permit The Polish national team will play this July in the WBSC Europe baseball event in Kutno The new manager for Poland (one does not need Polish roots) is former Major League pitcher Dennis Cook who began his minor league career in Clinton while in the Giants’ system in 1985 Richmond has taken a real interest in the history of their native land They both experienced pain during World War II “My grandmother and her family were taken out of Poland when the Soviets were pushing back the Germans,” he said they were in Germany and not repatriated to Poland Their mother had tuberculosis and signed all the children over to an orphanage They were sent to live in different places “My grandma and her sister were sent to live in Iowa City What we know is that his mother was taken to Germany as a forced laborer before the war ended My grandfather was still in Poland and did not leave until 1948.” Richmond has stronger ties to Poland these days since he got married last year and his Polish wife is an English teacher in Warsaw while he focuses on baseball “I have always been curious about World War II,” said Richmond “What I learned is not the Polish perspective which I am aware of now it really increases my knowledge of the events and that era of history I did not know too much about Polish history” before coming in 2019 Baseball now is one way to bridge that gap between his late grandparents and the Europe they grew up in as Poland suffered untold horrors during World War II “I tried to ask my grandparents about these things My grandfather would have this line: ‘I do not want to talk about it That is in the past.’ I think it was traumatic enough for him,” said Richmond on a Saturday afternoon at a modern coffee shop in modern Warsaw The Gazette has been informing Iowans with in-depth local news coverage and insightful analysis for over 140 years independent journalism with a subscription today © 2025 The Gazette | All Rights Reserved The Turkish company Aselsan has signed an agreement with the Polish AMZ-Kutno for the delivery of radar and electro-optical systems for Light Armored Reconnaissance Carriers (LOTR) as part of the program codenamed Kleszcz (pronounced kleshch On Friday, November 15, 2024, the Turkish company Aselsan announced on social media that it had signed a contract worth €16.632 million (PLN 68.29 million) with the Polish company AMZ-Kutno for the supply of radar and electro-optical systems for Light Armored Reconnaissance Carriers (LOTR) as part of the program codenamed Kleszcz AMZ-Kutno is the supplier of LOTRs for the Polish Armed Forces Photo: AMZ-Kutno covers the delivery of an initial batch of 28 vehicles The possibility of technology transfer of Turkish solutions to Poland cannot be ruled out due to the scale of the demand According to the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense the LOTR Kleszcz will be equipped with reconnaissance systems including a tactical battlefield reconnaissance radar and an electro-optical turret This will enable dynamic and continuous acquisition and collection of information about the enemy and the operational environment as well as its processing and transmission as reconnaissance data to higher command levels The Turkish company offers the ATEŞ Mobile Border Security System (Mobil Sınır Güvenlik Sisteminin) developed for domestic services based on a 2019 agreement with the Turkish Ministry of the Interior (an initial order for 37 vehicle-mounted systems with an option to increase to 57 in the second phase and electro-optical sensors for integrated short- marking their positions with geographic coordinates on digital terrain maps The systems have been deployed along the borders with Greece and Bulgaria ASELSAN ile AB üyesi bir ülkedeki platform üreticisi arasında, radar ve elektro-optik sistemlerden oluşan faydalı yüklerin ihracatına ilişkin toplam tutarı 16.6 Milyon Avro olan satış sözleşmesi imzalanmıştır.🌐A sales agreement with a total value of 16,6 Million Euros has been… pic.twitter.com/jPNLCPsqEb — ASELSAN (@aselsan) November 15, 2024 Dani Mofshin and Cari Kutno have shared almost everything The same lively tendency to finish each other's sentences And the same nearly 90 percent genetic certainty of getting breast cancer shared something else important - a room at Boca Raton Regional Hospital followed months later by complete hysterectomies - all to prevent getting breast and ovarian cancer It had been determined they were carrying the BRCA2 gene a mutation that increases one's chances for breast and ovarian cancer "We knew that something had to be done," says Kutno Now recovered, the twins and mother Susan Shapiro, also a breast cancer survivor, are sharing their story for Think Pink Rocks, a local breast cancer charity that will hold its annual benefit concert next week at Boca's Mizner Park Amphitheatre, featuring Sean Kingston, Flo Rida, Ray J, local American Idol contestant Brett Loewenstern and others. The twins are asking women to get tested for the BRCA gene mutation, designated BRCA1 and BRCA22. They determine one's chances of getting cancer - 87 percent for breast cancer, 44 percent for ovarian cancer. "It's about awareness," says Amy Seidman, a breast cancer survivor and one of the co-founders of Think Pink Rocks. "When I was diagnosed in 2000, I didn't know anyone who had breast cancer. But now, it seems like I hear of someone once a month." Kutno learned about the BRCA2 gene when she accompanied her mother on a visit to the breast surgeon, although she admits that from the moment her mom was diagnosed, she thought " 'I'm gonna get it,' " she remembers. So the twins got tested and waited two excruciating weeks for the results to come back from Myriad Lab in Utah, the only U.S. facility that tests for the BRCA gene. Kutno got hers first - Mofshin was out of town - but both got the same devastating news. "My heart was in my throat," Mofshin says. "When you hear the word 'cancer,' " mom Shapiro, 63, says, "you don't hear anything else." Much of the awareness of the BRCA gene is knowing your family history. Before their mother's diagnosis, the twins didn't think there was much genetic risk - two aunts on either side had pancreatic cancer, but there was no breast cancer in the family. "We couldn't understand where it was coming from," Kutno says. But they couldn't escape the truth of the BRCA2 gene, which is seen largely in those of Ashkenazi or European Jewish decent. So they made the decision to have mastectomies and hysterectomies. Although that seems like it would be a hard decision, both twins said there was no other real choice. Both "were done with kids," says Mofshin, who has two daughters, while her sister has two sons. They understood that the hormone changes that come with pregnancy can actually trigger cancer, and together with their mother and their husbands, Andrew Kutno and Howard Mofshin, made peace with their choice. So there they were in that same room: "I was on the oncology floor and the nurse came back and said 'There's another patient with your same birthdate booked for the same surgery,'" Kutno says. "I said 'Oh, that's my sister!' The nurses were all confused." After her daughters' surgeries, Shapiro also had a double mastectomy: "If it wasn't for them being my heroes, it would have been a difficult thing for me to do," she says. While theirs is a personal story, Kutno and Mofshin say they're more than happy to share it if it'll save lives and get people to know their history and get checked. "You want to be able to be there for your family," Kutno says. 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No, because I understood that I would be talking into a vacuum." [3] Her words also seem to contain an expression of guilt; survivor's guilt isn't based in reality but it can become a painful and debilitating part of life Fela gave her testimony after her husband had passed away Her testimony reveals the beloved and supportive figure of her husband Avraham It was only after the meeting with the women who credited her with their survival in Auschwitz how she had treated them and how she had given so much of herself in order to help them did she feel that she could give testimony Could giving testimony have been a deep sigh of relief after years of feeling guilty that she had held an official position as a prisoner in Auschwitz Following her husband Avraham's death in October 1988 twenty-one years after they had become reacquainted Fela Meibaum was born on 2 April 1919 in Mława constituting a quarter of the town's population who emigrated to Israel after graduating from the gymnasium (high school) in Mława and studied chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for one year; she then studied at the Hadassah Nursing School on Mount Scopus and upon qualification Fela was later to marry Esther's husband's twin brother Avraham On arrival at Auschwitz they underwent a selection and Fela accompanied her mother on a truck so that she would not have to walk; her mother was sent directly to the gas chambers Fela was sent to the women's camp in Birkenau and her father was sent to the men's camp she worked as a nurse in one of the 'hospitals' after catching her trying to help the patients in the clinic Mengele appointed her to be the blockälteste of the Hungarian girls in Block 8 of the "C" camp "… during that period, there was also selections from among the children. I tried, I already knew and I was experienced, that it was better to send, if not to the crematoria then to any place other than staying in the "C" camp. In general, in Birkenau, any work – they called it a work camp –  would  be better. I did everything that I could, and sometimes even things that I couldn't." [6] Was there a difference between men and women in this respect in places where the reign of terror and death were so total the inevitable instinct for survival stronger than anything else Was it possible for solidarity to exist in a world of death revisiting this almost searing question from the perspective of one who was not there The extreme circumstances that were brought about by the Holocaust brought with them circumstances and relationships that were naturally and understandably complex It is however possible to determine that there was mutual aid even in the camps and that this was true among both men and women In the women's camps mutual aid could be found in attempts at survival in the struggle for life and in preserving sparks of spirituality; many times We are accustomed to asking ourselves about the evil – the extreme evil that was expressed in the Holocaust – but we tend not to ask ourselves about the good About the decision or the ability to go beyond one's limits through seeing the other; both the ability to do so and the choice Bruria-Eva Flusberg was born in July 1931 in the town of Csenger She was the daughter of Chava and Joseph Berger and the younger sister of Rivka When she was one-year-old her parents decided to emigrate to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and her family lived in Tel Aviv her parents decided to visit Hungary to help her grandfather who was in poor health On arrival in Hungary her father was arrested on suspicion of spying; he escaped back to Eretz Israel but the mother and daughters remained in Hungary In June 1944 the mother and two daughters were deported to Auschwitz On arrival the girls were holding their grandmother's hand but they and their mother were separated from their grandmother by a Jewish prisoner her sister and mother were registered as inmates of the camp Their mother became infected with typhus and died within a month of arrival Her sister was taken during a Selection and murdered during a death march thirteen-year-old Eva was 'chosen' to be murdered in the gas chambers and was sent to Block 25 the barracks in which the Germans gathered the prisoners who were slated for death a concentration and labor camp in Upper Austria In Lenzing the famished Eva bent down to pick up a piece of peel that seemed to her to be edible in punishment the guard dog was set on her and she was thrown into the so-called 'pit' and a German Shepherd comes and grabs my hand.…It was bleeding I cut a small patch from my dress and I tried to stop the blood because I had picked something up along the way And then the girl who was the Lagerälteste (camp elder) at the Lenzing camp brought me a blanket Snow fell and it was so thick that I could have been forgotten there She saved me there and she spoke to the camp manager and she told him that I didn't have anything camps in Estonia and a death march was a doctor in the ghetto and in the camps In a lecture he gave in 1961 about medicine during the Holocaust he addressed an important factor in the adaptation of the prisoners to life in the camps: Lea Schenap could not find respite following her renewed meeting with Fela Meibaum; the blockälteste from her childhood barracks She placed an advert in a newspaper seeking other women who had been alongside her in Block 8 in Birkenau When she had located another thirty-two women she arranged a meeting with them and with Fela Meibaum at Yad Vashem The interviewer asked her to talk about the "children's barracks" that she had been incarcerated in and about Fela the blockälteste and as one who did not take advantage of her status She describes the responsibility that she bore and her repeated attempts to help the girls in her barracks at risk to her own life she relates how Fela saved her life on one occasion Dr Naama Shik expands upon this topic in her book With Silent Screams: Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942–1945 The book is currently in the process of being translated into English [1]  Ruth Kluger Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Childhood Remembered [2]  Schenap [3]  Meibaum [4] Schenap [5] The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust [6] Ibid 21 [7] Flusberg [8] Dworzecki [9]  Schenap1989 The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il Another Cold War piece of equipment is soon to be withdrawn from the Polish Armed Forces The Polish Ministry of Defense awarded a contract for the delivery of new armored reconnaissance vehicles manufactured by AMZ-Kutno under the “Tick” program the ex-Soviet BRDM-2 vehicles will be slowly replaced by a new LOTR (light armored recon carrier) Bóbr-3 The contract for the “Tick” was awarded to AMZ-Kutno at the end of February 2024. The Ministry of Defense ordered an estimated 300 vehicles with deliveries to conclude in 2035 A new recon vehicle is only a part of a wider initiative to enhance the reconnaissance abilities of tactical units in the fields along with the ISTAR “Owl” program “Spider” data collection system Together all of the assets will enhance the eyes and ears of Polish mechanized and armored brigades The Bóbr-3 (Beaver) APC has been in development since 2013 when the National Center for Research and Development signed a contract with AMZ-Kutno for the development and delivery of a new recon vehicle One of the main requirements was to provide an adequate level of protection for the crew and amphibious capabilities Despite initial setbacks and the deadline being postponed twice during the construction phase AMZ-Kutno delivered a 4×4 wheeled APC with many features not present in the BRDM-2 Bóbr-3 is equipped with a 326 HP engine in a power-pack configuration The vehicle can be armed with a variety of weapons mounted on a remote station Additional protection can be provided by a laser detection system and multispectral smoke grenade dispensers mounted additionally The crew conditions will be much improved due to the air conditioning unit mounted in the APC The “Tick” is only a small piece in the entire program aimed at increasing the capabilities of reconnaissance units as a whole small steps are necessary for a systematic improvement of the armed forces Even after the change in the leadership of the Polish Ministry of Defense various programs and projects remain on course We may expect that in 2024 several other programs will be either awarded launched or formalized and the Technical Modernization Plan will continue to be steadily followed If you have questions regarding your subscription of European Security & Defence contact our subscriber service: 05-May-2021 Last updated on 05-May-2021 at 13:10 GMT The snack giant has ploughed €110m into accommodating a new manufacturing line at its Kutno facility in Kutno, Poland, which will increase production by 34%, meaning a further 120 million cans of Pringles will be produced annually. Originally expected to be completed by May 2021, the high-speed line is fully operational a month ahead of schedule. It uses the latest food production technology and is environmentally friendly. The  state-of-the-art, sustainable design requires less heating and other infrastructure in the factory. This increased efficiency will also help reduce food waste. The Pringles factory – located in the Lodz Special Economic Zone (SEZ) – was built in 2008, originally to produce Special K. Production of Pringles began in 2014. Currently, Kellogg Europe is the biggest investor in the Lodz SEZ, having invested more than €330m since 2008 and creating 550 jobs. Kellogg Europe's Pringles plant in Kutno.Growing demand for Pringles The company is also spending €30m to make its factory in Mechelen, Belgium, more sustainable. Work on the upgrades will begin later this year. “I’m very happy that we can meet the growing demand from Pringles customers and consumers,” said Dave Lawlor, president of Kellogg Europe. “Our investment in both our Belgian and Polish operations shows our commitment to driving our Pringles brand across the European region. Completing the new, most efficient and sustainable Pringles line yet in our Polish factory ahead of time in the middle of the pandemic is a great achievement, and I’m very proud of the team and the business for reaching this point so soon. “The Pringles brand is all about sharing experiences and having fun together with family and friends, something I hope more of us will be able to enjoy in the near future.” Kellogg ramps up Pringles production in Belgium17-Mar-2021By Gill HyslopKellogg is ploughing €30m ($39.7m) into revamping its Pringles plant in Belgium to keep up with EMEA demand, as well as to make production more sustainable. Kellogg ramps up efforts to achieve 100% renewable energy target09-Mar-2021By Gill HyslopKellogg Company has taken another step towards its objective to transition to 100% renewable electricity across all its manufacturing sites around the world by 2050. Pringles maker forecasts decline after lockdown snack-fest last year12-Feb-2021By Gill HyslopKellogg Company – which makes Pringles, Cheez-Its and Pop-Tarts – is expecting organic net sales to fall by about 1% in 2021, compared with a growth of 6% in 2020. If you have any questions or need help you can email us Keith Kahn-Harris A baseball diamond in spring sunshine awaits the new season with intense anticipation soon to be filled with cheering supporters I’m admiring one of five diamonds in the Europejskie Centrum Małej Ligii Basebolowej designed to host the European Little League baseball championships every July I’m being given a tour of the complex by Waldemar Szymański the man who was instrumental in bringing a facility that any American city would be proud of to this town of 42,000 people I wanted to know how this most American of games came to Kutno but he also wanted to know how I came to Kutno… I was invited to give a talk at a TEDx event in Kraków My topic was “small worlds”; how little communities are spaces of quiet heroism and meaning I suggested to the audience that you can choose a small world at random and you will find interesting and inspiring stories I challenged them to find something out about a small world I assumed existed but knew absolutely nothing about – Polish baseball got in touch to tell me that Polish baseball was a bigger deal than I thought he’d written an entire article on the subject for the Krakow Post focusing on the European Little League Baseball Centre – in Kutno.Kutno I am also from the town.Kutno once had a thriving Jewish population In the 19th century they constituted a majority of the town Jews made up “only” a quarter of the population Its most famous Jewish son was the Yiddish novelist Sholem Asch and today the town holds an annual festival celebrating his work emigrated to London from Kutno in the early 20th century The four who didn’t leave Poland disappeared without trace during the Holocaust baseball and family left me keen to visit the place Earlier this year I had the chance to do so We visited the cemetery the Nazis destroyed and the abandoned factory that became the ghetto into which the Jews were herded before being sent for extermination at the Chełmno death camp.It’s understandable that many Jews treat Poland as a place of the dead (postwar Polish antisemitism hasn’t helped) his passion for what he had built shone through.Baseball had been played elsewhere in Poland as early as the 1950s It was brought to Kutno in 1984 by a Cuban Waldemar fell in love with the game at a demonstration event; too old to play himself his son took up the sport while Waldemar started umpiring and soon became a significant figure in the national baseball association Aided by the support of the Polish-American player Stan Musial Waldemar managed to attract the European Little League Centre to the town in the mid-1990s attended matches all over the US and became a member of the Polish Olympic Committee The next day I rejoined the tour and said kaddish for my ancestors at the silent death pits at Chełmno I don’t begrudge Kutno its insistence of living after the extinction of its Jewish population But how wonderful it would have been if a baseball-playing Rojer had joined Waldemar in proudly showing off Kutno’s glorious baseball story History never seems to pass in Vienna and this will always be the case Sparks still have a truly unique sound but it's yet to be seen how their latest work will influence musicians this side of the Atlantic In 1940 a German soldier took these photographs of Jews being sent to the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland German soldier and later Nazi Party member Wilhelm Hansen photographed the Jewish population of Kutno A day earlier Jewish homes had been seized and emptied of people and possessions Hansen took pictures as the Jews were forced into an abandoned sugar factory around 3km outside the city centre the Jews would live as best they could until one day in 1942 the Germans called out their names in alphabetical order and murdered them 1939 and during the first months of the occupation the synagogue was destroyed Jewish girls were routinely molested by the SS all Jewish enterprises were in the hands of the occupying forces English and French at the Cathedral school in his native Schleswig […] The Germans gave that order to the Jewish population that everybody has to report the next day to a certain place and this was called – it used to be a factory that made sugar – and it was called in Polish Konstancja so furniture you could take along with you his name […] his name I remember exactly…he was an SA man […] he used to wear that brown uniform with an Hakenkreuz and his name was Sherman and he was walking through the Jewish homes and he used to beat us and he used to take out everything He used to beat us over our heads …and fast fast…you know: schnell… – Gordon Klatsky (born in 1915, Lubraniec, Poland) and former resident of Kutno speaking in 1995 to the USC Shoah Foundation “…during the first months of the occupation the synagogue was destroyed and many Jews were taken for forced labor… but the ghetto was only established officially in June 1940 the Jewish population increased considerably due to the constant influx of Jewish refugees from peripheral areas all the Jews were transferred to the grounds of the ‘Konstancja’ sugar factory… More than 7000 Jews were crammed into the grounds of the factory several buildings of which had been bombed forcing many of the new tenants to make outdoor living arrangements The Germans surrounded the area with barbed wire and watchtowers the ghetto prisoners managed to preserve a semblance of normality “The ghetto was liquidated at the end of March/beginning of April 1942 with the deportation of all its inhabitants to the Chelmno extermination camp.” – Vad Yashem Via: Jewish Museum, Rendsburg, Germany, Slate SubscriptionOffers Give a Gift Subscribe the Warsaw ghetto uprising and more in The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion Judy Batalion introduces her groundbreaking study of Polish resistance against the Nazis by describing her 12-year search for the Jewish women who played a vital role are the stories of the ‘ghetto girls’ who paid off Gestapo guards hid revolvers in loaves of bread and messages in their pigtails and fought in armed struggles their friendships and their extraordinary sacrifice emerge from the shadows Without sentimentalising their achievements and the price paid for the risks they took to save their families Batalion’s collective biography provides a significant contribution to Holocaust history.  While dozens of women carried out rebellious acts which consisted of everything from espionage missions for Moscow to flirting with Nazis The most detailed story is that of Renia Kukielka the Kukielka sisters were couriers for Freedom one of the prewar youth movements that provided a network for the resisters is a rare first-person account bearing witness to the women’s motivations their loyalty to their comrades and the losses they suffered.  When the Nazis invaded their hometown of Będzin in 1939 the Kukielka family had fled to relatives in nearby Jędrzejów where they were later forced into a ghetto one of the 400 established throughout the country With her ‘Polish looks’ and an education that had given her fluent Polish Renia Kukielka was able to acquire fake documents and return to Będzin networks of young Jews who ‘created a novel kind of family life to help heal from the ones that had been destroyed’.  In 1943 when Kukielka and her comrades received news of the Warsaw ghetto’s armed uprising they knew that deportation was imminent and their own resistance escalated It was then that Kukielka became a Freedom courier transporting bullets in innocuous jars of jam But living under an assumed identity required them to participate in antisemitic conversations and maintain a light-hearted tone as they did so: ‘We couldn’t cry for real ‘We were actors in a play that had no intermission.’  Yet the opportunities their disguises afforded them were remarkably effective was assigned by an employment office to work as a translator for the Gestapo There she joined ‘master courier’ Lonka Kozibrodska who travelled throughout Poland transporting weapons If the Polish Jewish resistance achieved relatively modest victories Batalion argues that it was much larger and more organised than historians have previously recognised Her welcome research and fluid storytelling fit a larger which reveals the breadth of women’s agency during armed conflicts and as she writes: ‘A different version of the women-in war story.’  Julie Wheelwright is the author of Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium (Osprey .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By John Beauge | Special to PennLiveLLWS Oregon Uganda Baseball Andrew Namwanjja and Daniel Alio celebrate after Uganda won a consolation baseball game against Gresham SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT-It is another disappointing year for the Little League team that won championship of Uganda the winner was disqualified by Little League but this year everything was set for the team to compete in the Europe-Africa regional tournament in Kutno according to Little League is the Polish embassy in Nairobi The embassy did the same for the Uganda 11-12 softball team that was scheduled play in the regional tournament later this month in Kutno and its junior division baseball champs Uganda Little League officials are questioning whether there was an ulterior motive for the visas being denied The league posted the following on its website: apparently will not let a Ugandan team travel to Poland because they are Africans even if they overcome every obstacle presented to them "The questions being asked now will Poland ever allow a Uganda Little League team to travel to Poland to play in a Little League regional tournament again "Are they refusing the Ugandan kids visas because they come from Africa and thus depriving them the opportunity to demonstrate their ability against European teams "Is this the policy of the European Union or the policy of the visa officer at the Polish Embassy in Kenya Is this an official policy or that of an individual?" The younger baseball team says it was informed July 1 everything was in order and visas would be available July 7 but that was the day they were denied One of the reasons the Ugandans say they were given for the denial was concern the team had sufficient funds to make the trip to Kutno and back This despite written assurance from Little League officials in Poland that money was not an issue we have learned a lot about how Poland (or is it the EU) tries to keep Africans out of their country by the restrictions they put on getting a visa," the website states The message the Ugandans say was sent by the woman in the Polish embassy in Kenya who denied the visas is no team from that country will ever get to play in a Little League tournament that is being held in Poland so long as she is there "We do not know if this is her policy or the embassy's," they say The Polish embassy in Nairobi serves all of east Africa Little League international tournament officials were not available to comment on the Ugandan accusations Little League does not get involved in travel arrangements until a team wins a regional title Two years ago a Ugandan team won the regional tournament in Kutno to become the first African representative in the world series While Uganda did not make it to Poland for the current baseball tournament Turmoil in that country has not affected the Little League program there according to spokesman Brian McClintock in South Williamsport Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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MAN proposed a 78-month vehicle warranty – a unique proposal among all van producers equipped with state-of-the-art steering equipment Vehicles will be used by 16 Regional Road Transport Inspections each Regional Inspection will receive four brand new MAN TGE vans They will be used in everyday operating tasks by Road Transport Inspectors across the country so close to the whole transportation industry has decided to purchase vehicles from our range By assisting today at the handover of our vans the Ministry of Infrastructure and the GITD sends a clear message about the importance of road transport which despite difficulties caused by the coronavirus outbreak is still one of the key industries in ensuring the uninterrupted supply chain I am convinced that state-of-the-art and perfectly equipped MAN TGE vans will be for the GITD an excellent and comfortable work tool” The vehicles and products displayed on this website may differ in terms of shape Some of the images may include special equipment accessories and decorative elements which are subject to an additional charge The technical features and equipment of the vehicles described are merely examples and may differ We reserve the right to make changes at any time Our vehicles are equipped with summer tyres as standard Please check possible national regulations about whether winter tyres are required Your MAN partner will be happy to advise you The specified fuel consumption and emission data has been determined according to the measurement procedures prescribed by law certain new vehicles are already being type-approved according to the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) a more realistic test procedure for measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions It is currently still required by law to state the NEDC figures for vehicles for passenger transport with registration class M1 In the case of new vehicles which have been type-approved according to the WLTP the NEDC figures are derived from the WLTP data In cases where the NEDC figures are specified as value ranges these do not refer to a particular individual vehicle and do not constitute part of the sales offering etc.) may change the relevant vehicle parameters in conjunction with weather and traffic conditions and individual driving style CO2 emissions and the performance figures for the vehicle Efficiency classes rate vehicles for passenger transport with an M1 passenger vehicle registration according to the CO2 emissions under consideration of the empty vehicle weight Vehicles which conform to the average are classified as D Vehicles which are above the current average are classified as A+ Vehicles which are below average are classified as E MAN TGEs of vehicle class M1 require coolant of the type R1234yf The GWP value of the coolant used is 1.430 (coolant type R134a) and 4 (coolant type R1234yf) The fill levels depend on the coolant compressor and varies between 560 - 590 grams Iacovella, who started the restaurant with two partners and sold it 12 years ago, said it was at the wrong end of Fowler Avenue, between 30th and 56th Street. And it was the “back side’’ of the USF campus, since the main campus entrance at that time was off Fletcher Avenue. “No one ever traveled that way. Busch Boulevard was the main artery,’’ he said. “And it was down in a hole. You couldn’t see it from the street.’’ Iacovella and two buddies, Larry Kutno and Bernie Reichert, each put in $5,000 to open the restaurant. They bought all used equipment, and they were the entire wait staff until the business grew enough that they could afford to hire help. “And we worked hard. We worked long hours. It was nothing for us to work seven days, 15 to 16 hours a day. And we slept and ate there.’’ Iacovella said he came up with the name of the restaurant while he and Kutno were students at the Southern Connecticut City College. He saw a children’s book by William Steig titled, C D B! The author featured combinations of letters that could be stated as phrases, such as “See the bee!’’ The restaurateurs put copies of the book at tables for customers to read while waiting for their orders, and the books vanished like pizzas. Iacovella figures they bought 15,000 copies over the years. “Eventually we started getting hard cover ones, drilling in a hole and chaining it to the table, and they still disappeared,’’ he said. It became so successful that the partners expanded, adding restaurants in downtown Tampa, Carrollwood and Lakeland. Eventually, all were sold except the original, which Iacovella ran until 2007, when he sold it to local restaurateur Jackie Xu. Xu and part-owner Brandon Byars said that business remained brisk. They were forced to close, they said, explaining that their landlord, who did not renew their lease, plans to redevelop the small shopping center that the building occupies. They closed last Thursday and held an auction Friday to sell off tables, chairs, pictures and other furnishings long familiar to regulars. “It’s a USF institution,’’ said Mary Hayward, who stopped by the day before the closing. She had been patronizing the place for 33 years, since her student days at USF. “We moved away and I came back over here to get a pizza, because my husband’s like, ‘CDB’s is closing!’’ She happened to be in the area, she said, and had to stop by for one last pizza. Subscribe to our free Stephinitely newsletter You’re all signed up!Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. “We’re shocked, and we’re really sad.’’ Philip MorganTimes Correspondent Bike Europe is a part of VMNmedia. The following rules apply to the use of this site: Terms of Use and Privacy / Cookie Statement | Privacy settings You can read this article in 3 minutesBartosz Wawryszuk Container operator to launch two new rail connections with France Contargo is set to expand its container logistics network with the launch of two new rail connections the company will begin operating regular train services between Dourges in France and both central Poland and Duisburg in Germany “The two new railway lines are the first step towards further developing our rail transport services in Europe and expanding our offering to include continental rail connections,” said Andreas Mager Managing Director of Contargo Rail Services The new corridors – the Duisburg-Dourges Shuttle (DDS) and the Poland-France Shuttle (PFS) – are intended to provide environmentally friendly alternatives for transporting goods between Western and Eastern Europe the Duisburg-Dourges Shuttle will link the Lille Dourges Conteneur Terminal (LDCT) in northern France with the intermodal terminal in Duisburg The fixed timetable will include three return trips per week This new connection will facilitate deliveries via Dourges to and from cities such as Bordeaux The DIT terminal in Duisburg will also provide rail links to Poland The Poland-France Shuttle will also be launched at the end of August with two planned routes: Dourges–Krzewie and Dourges–Kutno Both Polish destinations are located in central Poland The direct connection between Dourges and Krzewie will initially operate once a week in each direction linking LDCT in Dourges with the Miratrans terminal Contargo plans to increase the frequency to two return trips per week after the initial launch phase The Kutno route will see more frequent service this connection will link the Central Poland Terminal in Kutno with Dourges via an intermediate stop in Duisburg The section between Dourges and Duisburg will run three times per week in both directions will run five times 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Mainz Süd in Erbes-Büdesheim bei Alzey Axi Immo has presented its latest report “Warsaw Office Market – Q1 2025 The market opened in 2025 on a steady footing with a notable increase in leasing activity and a modest decline in vacancy landlords continue to focus on upgrading existing assets and prioritizing quality over quantity Convenience store chain Żabka has officially opened a new logistics centre in Kąty Wrocławskie The first stage of the development will serve 1,500 stores in the Wrocław area Romanian Post has leased over 5,000 sqm of logistics space in CTPark Bucharest to serve as its temporary regional courier and logistics hub for Bucharest JLL has announced the sale and leaseback of two properties by a manufacturing company in a deal worth over PLN 1 bln Warehouse developer CTP is adding 2,000 sqm to its Clubco coworking development in Brno pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has extended an investment facility to PineBridge Benson Elliot for the Diuna Office Park in Warsaw The hotel market in Bucharest continued its recovery in 2024 while the ADR has finally surpassed the milestone of EUR 100 Torus has announced its All.inn students’ residence concept that is soon to appear on ul BIG Poland has acquired the Multishop Suwałki retail park comprising 13,000 sqm of retail space The company now owns nine fully commercialized retail parks in Poland Slate Asset Management has sold three OBI retail stores to the Lindner Group from Germany Cushman & Wakefield has conducted a survey the findings of which are presented in the report From Shopping to Experiences: A Customer’s View on Shopping Centres and Retail Parks Cushman & Wakefield notes that despite evolving shopping trends both retail formats continue to hold strong appeal Multi Poland has taken on the management of the Galeria Przymorze shopping centre in Gdańsk The store offers lifestyle and sporting clothing and is to open this spring According to the "Quo Vadis E-commerce" report released by Cushman & Wakefield the online commerce continues to be a growth driver for the industrial & logistics real estate sector generating significant opportunities for developers and investors the investor behind the Projekt Góraszka shopping and entertainment complex in Wiązowna on Warsaw’s eastern outskirts has obtained a building permit for a mixed-use development Poznan-based company Scallier is opening another facility under the Funshop Park brand in Romania According to the latest report “At a Glance: Modern Retail Market in Poland Q4 2024” from BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland Poland’s retail market experienced record growth in 2024 Cushman &Wakefield has summarised the situation on the Polish retail market Over half a mln sqm of new retail space came on stream last year marking the highest new supply level in Poland since 2015 This robust development activity occurred amid rising demand from new retailers and improving consumer sentiment which boosted retail sales A new retail park with a total area of 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Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu adopting the title of its property management product the construction of the Panattoni Park Unterfranken has officially started 1916 in Chicago to a family of Polish immigrants businessman and philanthropist known in the USA and Poland Edward Piszek was the initiator of the construction of the the European Little League Baseball Center in Kutno He was one of the first to donate $ 100,000 for the construction of the Center and he actively promoted Kutno and the European Little League Baseball Center in Kutno Piszek was also looking for sponsors for the next stages of construction of the the European Little League Baseball Center Edward Piszek's work for his country began in the late 1960s when he donated over a million dollars worth of tuberculosis equipment to the Polish health service he conducted activities that showed Americans the history and culture of our nation he was actively involved in promoting the idea of ​​accepting Poland into NATO Edward Piszek was also the founder of such foundations and organizations as: Peace Corps Partnership – financing the costs of American teachers' stay in Poland Fundacja Kopernikańska in Poland and Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial in Philadelphia He had an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow among others Commander's Cross with the White Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta the Man of the Year Award of Rotary International.He was also awarded the Order of Merit for Polish Culture In 1998 he was nominated by the US Congress for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Stanley Frank Musial - was born on November 21 Pennsylvania to a family of Polish immigrants He made outstanding contributions to the development of Kutno and its promotion in the USA he donated sports equipment worth $ 50,000 to PZBall He made a great financial contribution to the construction of the European Little League Baseball Center He carried out intensive efforts to expand the Center the newly built stadium at the European Little League Baseball Center was named after him Stanley Frank Musial is an outstanding player - the legend of American baseball His professional career was associated with only one club - St played twenty-four times in all-star matches and three times in world finals he is considered the best player in the history of American baseball Eugeniusz Filipowicz -was born on December 31 After graduating from the Railway General School in the years 1918–1924 he attended the State Junior High School he joined Tadeusz Rejtan I Kutno Scout Team and became a scout He finished his degree at the Local Government Department of the Warsaw School of Economics.During his studies he was a member of the Union of Polish Democratic Youth He was the president of Bratnia Pomocy of the Warsaw School of Economics and in the years 1926-1927 he was the vice-president of the Board of the National Academic Union of Provincial Circles From 1928 he worked in the local government of the Kutnowski district including positons such as a financial manager He held this position until September 1939 he set himself the goal of the economic development of the city and increasing the level of city infrastructure (new sidewalks thanks to which Kutno received excellent quality water He bought land - 42 ha in Azory district for the construction of a railway estate with a church school and a people's house for the city's needs He purchased the Zawadzki park and palace (now the Spring of Nations Park) for the city He bought land for allotment gardens for the unemployed he was elected a deputy to the Polish Sejm on behalf of the National Unification Camp After receiving the evacuation order from the Łódź voivode he secured the documents and the municipal treasury and handed them over to the military authorities in Warsaw two days later Member of the boards of numerous social organizations including the Union of Local Government Workers of the Republic of Poland president of the PCK branch and the Union of Reserve Officers in Kutno the commander of the defense of the city and the railway station in Kutno he escaped shortly after being transported to a POW camp in Łódź he was the organizer and commander of the Northern Sub-District of the Warsaw-Voivodship of the ZWZ He worked as a house administrator in Warsaw and a gardener in Budziska near Warsaw Arrested in June 1941 at a contact point in Warsaw interrogated on Aleja Szucha and imprisoned in Pawiak in Warsaw where he worked in an underground prison network Thanks to the help of the Home Army Headquarters he escaped from Pawiak on 3 March 1942 and then became a member of the Polesie District Command of the Home Army From January 1944 deputy commander of the Military Security Corps in the Postulated Lands Participant of the "Burza" action in Praga Południe In 1941 he was promoted to the rank of captain and is buried in the former Military Cemetery in Powązki in Warsaw and then became the director of the hospital of St the hospital soon became one of the best facilities in the Kingdom of Poland.The hospital gained surgery gynecology and obstetrics and infectious diseases departments A pavilion for an old people's home was also added Troczewski was not only an excellent practitioner organized medical meetings in Kutno and gathered an excellent team of seven doctors He gained great popularity among patients as a wonderful person and an advocate of free hospital treatment Troczewski considered working for people a life mission he initially met with a lack of understanding but he was able to stimulate the local community to act the Firefighter's House of Income was built at Teatralna Street and the first secondary school in Kutno was established - the Real School of the Polish School Society (currently J Tygodnik Kutnowski was established and Troczewski became an editor and publisher for many years Troczewski was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city of Kutno Father Jan Sposób carried out his pastoral duties in the parish of St Michael the Archangel in Woźniaków from August 1 Known widely in Kutno thanks to the function of the chaplain of the Kutno hospital and over 20 years of spiritual care for the sick cultivating patriotic attitudes in the local community by commemorating the memory of the January Insurgents who died in 1863 near Kutno soldiers of the Home Army and in co-organizing the celebration of the Battle of Bzura Father Jan Sposób was born in Krasewo in the Lublin voivodship on February 14 he entered the Minor Seminary of the Salesian Fathers in Daszawa in the district of Stryjskim (Stanisławowskie voivodeship) he remained for a year after the end of hostilities but was soon captured by the occupiers and intended for deportation to work in Germany he avoided the fate of a forced laborer by escaping During the German occupation - in March 1942 - he joined the ranks of the Home Army within the Radzyń Podlaski Region VI Region He served as a private in the partisan detachment of the 35th Infantry Regiment as a scout - messenger until July 1944 he took part in numerous underground actions including taking airdrops and in the action "Burza" under the command of the Commander of the Region due to the strong threat from the Red Army the entire regiment went underground by the command of the command with arms He ended his service in the Home Army as a corporal most of his colleagues were arrested the NKVD Jan Sposób - pursued many times - fortunately avoided arrest he decided to go to Jaciążek in the Maków Mazowiecki District but he decided not to return to his family home He realized his intention to join the Congregation of Salesians In the years 1947-1950 he studied philosophy he was ordained a priest in Kraków.From 1954 he was a tutor in a boarding school and a parish priest in Kobylnica Słupska and Olsztyn For 35 years he was known to the inhabitants of Kutno as a confessor and for over 20 years as a hospital chaplain He was involved in the expansion of the chapel of Our Lady of Częstochowa on Łęczycka Street which is an important place of religious worship in the southern part of the city It is also a national memorial related to the January Uprising Father Jan Sposób was active in the veterans' milieu of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers he also became known as a co-organizer of the anniversary celebration of the Battle of the Bzura He was appointed to the first officer rank on March 2 he was appointed to the rank of Captain of the Polish Army He was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit (2013) and the Medal of the Primate of Poland