HomeDestinationsInterestsTop Places to Travel by MonthSearchMenuBest time to go to Poland One of the biggest and brightest airshows in Poland promising aviation enthusiasts and families an exhilarating experience this event has established itself as one of Europe's most anticipated aviation airshows visitors will have the opportunity to witness captivating aerial displays by some of the best civilian and military pilots from across Europe This unique spectacle draws aviation enthusiasts from all over Poland and beyond featuring static aircraft and aeronautic displays Attendees can expect a wide array of activities and spectacles throughout the two-day event From scenic flights to exhibitions of military equipment The daytime shows from 16:00 to 20:00 will feature thrilling performances by soloists will illuminate the sky with mesmerizing displays after sunset One of the highlights of the airshow is the participation of renowned aircraft and teams From the Equipe de Voltige representing the French Air and Space Force to the Flying Dragons Team showcasing powered paragliding the lineup promises a diverse and captivating display of aerial skills Visitors will also have the chance to witness unique aircraft like the F4U Corsair it's advisable to purchase tickets in advance as the number of tickets is limited including single-entry tickets for 40 Polish zlotys and special tickets offering access to exclusive zones such as the Spotter Zone and Comfort Zone Discounts are available for children aged 3-12 while children under 3 enjoy free admission individuals with disabilities are accommodated with free entry and designated parking Parking arrangements are in place to facilitate attendees with options for standard parking for 25 Polish zlotys as well as VIP parking for 100 Polish zlotys for aviation enthusiasts looking to immerse themselves fully in the experience the Antidotum Camp offers camping facilities for the duration of the event Latvian ace Andzejs Lebedevs says Leszno surprise package Ben Cook is made for the Polish tracks as he bids to end a dream debut season in the PGE Ekstraliga by saving the Bulls from the drop Cook only made his European debut with Poole in Britain’s Cab Direct Championship in 2021 but has already won two league and cup doubles with the Pirates as well as establishing himself in the Rowe Motor Oil Premiership racing for Peterborough in 2023 and Belle Vue this year He was handed an unexpected call-up by Leszno earlier this summer as the club faced an injury crisis and Cook has excelled in the world’s toughest speedway league The Cowra-born man is currently 18th in the PGE Ekstraliga average charts on 1.935 points per race – ahead of six members of the full-time Speedway GP line-up Leszno is currently bottom of the table on nine points – but just one behind relegation rivals Czestochowa in sixth and Zielona Gora in seventh The Lions and Falubaz were due to face off on Friday but the meeting has been postponed due to rain.  Leszno will be in action and face a difficult assignment away to runaway league leaders Lublin They will need Cook to continue his heroics against a side featuring four Speedway GP riders – Bartosz Zmarzlik who are all building up to the FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain – Cardiff on August 17 While the likes of Lebedevs and former SGP winner Janusz Kolodziej were expected to be Leszno’s heroes in 2024 Cook has emerged as an unlikely big scorer in their survival quest Latvia’s finest admits Cook’s high-scoring exploits have taken many by surprise His racing style is for the Polish tracks – big with nice shapes where he can build big speed and it doesn’t matter who he is racing; he can make a great show on the track he can pass the top riders in the world easily EKSTRALIGA | VACULIK LEADS GORZOW TO DERBY DELIGHT ZMARZLIK LANDS MAXIMUM POINTS IN LANDSHUT AFTER SPEEDWAY GP & SPRINT DOUBLE ZMARZLIK TAKES SPEEDWAY GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD AFTER WINNING LANDSHUT SPRINT RACE some clubs have launched the process of submitting applications for permanent media accreditation for the year 2025 for media representatives FOGO UNIA Leszno has informed that applications for a permanent pass for all METALKAS 2 Elite League matches can be submitted until the end of February Journalists who want to get permanent accreditation in Ostrów Wlkp with ARGED MALESA giving time until March 23 All applications for permanent accreditation for the 2025 season can be submitted HERE The District Museum in Leszno together with the Polish Architects Association invites to participate in the Competition for the development of an architectural and urban concept for the revitalization and extension of the Old Vinegar Production Facility building for the purpose of the District Museum in Leszno city in Poland The regulations and competition materials are available on the Regulations and materials subpage: http://poznan.sarp.pl/konkurs-muzeum-leszno/ The aim of the competition is to obtain the best architectural spatial and functional concept for the new seat of the District Museum in Leszno and the selection of an architect / team to be entrusted with further design work Submission of applications for admission to the competition - until October 24 Submission of competition entries (online)- by February 10 Public announcement of the competition results opening of the competition works exhibition and post-competition discussion - March 10 This competition was submitted by an ArchDaily user. 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Another challenge the department faces is the diversity of materials from which the artifact is made each requiring specialized conservation techniques according to the material Yad Vashem has acquired experts with the required skills and know-how in order to conserve these unique and fragile items the department is also tasked with storing the items which greatly vary in size and shape – from pendants and spoons to cradles and even pianos Yad Vashem plans to open a new facility in the coming years With construction expected to be complete by 2022 the Shapell Family Collections Center will comprise approximately 6,000 square meters (65,000 square feet) of new conservation and storage spaces for Yad Vashem's unrivalled and invaluable growing collections of Holocaust-era art The Collections Center will also provide optimal conditions for the dedicated professionals conservationists and archivists taking care of these items each day as well as designated work spaces for researchers “It is important for us to fulfill to our mission of commemorating the victims for future generations The new Shapell Family Collections Center means we can preserve and investigate every authentic and relevant item we receive." Yad Vashem’s impressive and diverse Artifacts Collection is the largest in the world Tal and his team continue the important mission instituted by former Artifacts Department Director Haviva Peled Carmeli z"l to understand the artifact in its entirety – including any connection to similar items already housed at Yad Vashem "Our current approach is to try to understand the article in a general sense and also to identify any common denominator with other items in our collection," Tal continues "A single item can tell us not only about an individual or a family but also how a group of items speak to each other and thus shed new light on the Shoah overall which come from widely varying people and places This sparked our curiosity: Was there was a particular relationship between chess and the Jewish world and soon concluded that this game was very popular at the time within the Jewish community it frequently accompanied the Jews in their flight from homes and communities In spite of the fear and oppression they faced which gave them a brief respite from their harsh reality."  Another unique phenomenon during the Holocaust were recipe books Yad Vashem houses several copies that were written in ghettos and concentration camps They give a glimpse into daily life in the camps and how they were used by prisoners to help deal with loneliness to create friendships and to fight hunger by imagining that they were eating those foods “By researching these different recipe books we were able to discover that astonishingly where they were literally starving to death It was of course impossible for them to actually create these recipes but they wrote them down anyway from memory as a way for them to remember their pre-Holocaust life This very act paradoxically gave them strength This blog was translated from French 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 an imprisoned community in Nazi-occupied Poland banded together to contain a deadly epidemic of typhus largely without the aid of vaccines or effective medicines they likely relied on measures like education Some of the lessons gleaned from that epidemic may very well apply to our current pandemic little work had been done by others to figure out what this outbreak really looked like “I began checking historical accounts and was amazed that this had been missed I realized that this was incredibly important,” Stone told Gizmodo His team’s findings, published in Science Advances Typhus had been devastating the Warsaw Ghetto’s residents as late as October 1941 it seemed to mysteriously decline by the year’s end when outbreaks of typhus historically got worse Stone worried that death records around that time period may have been incomplete but he eventually found confirmation of the decline from a historian’s daily accounts of the Ghetto Nearby towns didn’t experience a similar drop in typhus that winter indicating that something different was happening in Warsaw Though a somewhat effective vaccine for typhus was invented shortly before the start of World War II and may even have been smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto few people are thought to have had access to it And it would be decades before effective antibiotics for typhus would be widely available So as best as historical records and Stone’s research can tell it’s likely that members of the community and doctors there relied on more old-fashioned public health measures to stop the outbreak These measures included better sanitation and hygiene practices by residents reinforced by educational lectures that hundreds of people may have attended There were also reports of underground universities where young medical students got training on how best to respond to epidemic diseases like typhus And there was probably some social distancing though it wouldn’t have been considered a very novel thing at the time “It was like common knowledge: ‘Don’t get close to someone with typhus because you don’t want to be the next person the lice gets onto,’” Stone said These measures only mitigated the devastation caused by typhus that year and the Nazis actively sabotaged efforts to provide people with more food and other resources Stone’s model suggests that around 100,000 people contracted typhus during that time and it played a large role in the 80,000 to 100,000 deaths that his team also suspects occurred in 1941 But they did probably forestall a much worse outbreak that could have been two to three times larger many residents of the Ghetto began being sent to the Nazi death camps that ultimately killed millions of people Stone’s work began before the covid-19 pandemic and the two diseases are different in very important ways (among other things But he does think his team’s findings are especially timely “One takeaway would be that public health measures during an epidemic can be effective—even if you don’t realize they’re working most people were starving and probably didn’t know what was going on around them or that what they were doing was really helping,” Stone said covid-19 has a knack for exploiting the divides of the world around it That doesn’t have to be the end of the story The details might have been different during WWII but the same principles apply today: A disease spread by people can be stopped by people even in the absence of a miracle cure or vaccine ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Latvian ace Andzejs Lebedevs will race on in Poland’s PGE Ekstraliga in 2024 after his switch to Leszno was confirmed The Speedway GP newcomer has long been linked with a move to the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium after his 2023 club Krosno suffered relegation to the First Division And in the biggest season of his career to date as well as competing for Swedish champions Dackarna and Danish club Fjelsted Posting on Facebook following the Leszno announcement a delighted Lebedevs said: “Thank you for your trust and I am already working hard because being a Bull is hard but I want to be a strong Bull that the fans will be happy with.” Danish international Mads Hansen has completed a move to Czestochowa where he will replace 2021 FIM Speedway Under-21 World Championship winner Jakub Miskowiak as the club’s under-24 rider Hansen finished second to Miskowiak in the 2021 World Under-21s but he underlined his progress since then when he scored 10 championship points at the DeluxeHomeart FIM Speedway GP of Denmark – Vojens on September 16 We don’t know much about Salomea Ostrowska We don’t have information about where she came from She had been living in the Warsaw Ghetto at 27 Ogrodowa street being employed at the Quarantine Service at 109/111 Leszno street The quarantine was the threshold of the ghetto a place of isolation for the Jews who were resettled to the ghetto an entrance and an exit for the Jewish poverty Inhabitants of the ghetto were also being held there in case of danger of an epidemic of diseases such as typhus Brutal scenes were often taking place there people were being held there for several days despite being in a good health condition; hunger the despair and horror of Jewish life became fully revealed children squeezed and suffocated to death on the way (refugees from Grójec sons and brothers sending desperate messages to their loved ones that they were taken away from the street was to support the employees of the quarantine especially in terms of providing food and facilitating contact with families in the ghetto (carrying letters and parcels) She was writing about her work for refugees and displaced persons: We were working honourably In the first part of the Ringelblum Archive It was based on her observations from night shifts and daily reports of the institution Jews from Polish towns and villages keep arriving The quarantine is the threshold of their new life The spacious rooms of the former school are grey withdirt they arrive in a place where they receive a cup of coffee and some bread – if it is available An individual person disappears in the giant human mass People are crowded – one cannot tell one face from another everyone has their own problems and challenges Everyone has requests which we cannot respond to I look into the window and I think that it is true after all that bread has a golden colour They are so hungry that he is too afraid to let them into the bath so two ladies go to the kitchen to cook it and give it to the children An ambulance parked in front of the quarantine They are taking away the sick and the elderly Assistants say that his daughter took away his shoes because she believes that it would be a pity to lose the shoes Ostrowska had met former inmates of the camp for displaced persons in Pomiechówek Together with Hersz Wasser and two other people she was listening to the inmates and writing down their accounts they were experiencing brutality from the guards who were recruited usually from local volksdeutschs plus a Jewish policeman Majloch Hoppenblum also due to shootings or torture by the guards Ostrowska had also contributed more accounts to the Archive: testimonies from September 1939 and stories shared by the Jews who were escaping to the ghetto from the East (Vilnius and other directions) after 1941 She was receiving a small pay (her name is included in the Oneg Shabbat’s „Accounting Books” The date and place of her death remain unknown [2] Introduction [in:] The Ringelblum Archive “The courts in Leszno were the border and at the same time the link between the two worlds” says Hanna Dzielińska (Hanka Warszawianka) The tenth episode of the series ‘Remnatns of the Warsaw Ghetto’ tells of the Grodzki courts at Solidarity 127 Avenue (formerly Leszno 53/55 Street) once colloquially called the Courts of Leszno They were a point of contact between the ghetto and the ‘Aryan’ side It was through the courts that people working with Żegota Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych writes more about the functioning of the Courts in Leszno during the occupation in the 9th part of the column series “Taste of ghetto life”: http://1943.pl/en/artykul/the-taste-of-life-in-the-ghetto-9/ ‘Remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto’ is a film series of 16 short guided tours presenting the history of places and people associated with them The following places will be presented: Umschlagplatz; Anielewicz Mound; Szmul Zygielbojm Monument; Monument of the Ghetto Heroes; Grzybowski Square; Mariańska Street and the Nursing School; Nożyk Synagogue; Great Synagogue at Tłomackie Street; Nalewki Street; Femina Cinema Theater; Courts at Leszno Street; Chłodna Street; Waliców Street; The Jewish Cemetery at Okopowa Street and the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital – the place where the permanent exhibition of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum will be created The series presentation accompanies the commemoration of 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto borders closing organized by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and TSKŻ – the Social and Cultural Society of Jews in Poland Polish racer Janusz Kolodziej collected 11 paid 13 points as Leszno snatched a last-heat 46-44 win at home to PGE Ekstraliga newcomers Krosno on Sunday who received a lively reception as he returned to his old club Krosno had a 43-41 advantage going into heat 15 Doyle endeared himself to the away fans with a vital victory over Leszno’s 2012 world champion Chris Holder and returning local favourite Bartosz Smektala in race 14 But the Bulls hit back in style as Grzegorz Zengota led Kolodziej to a 5-1 over Andzejs Lebedevs and Vaclav Milik in heat 15 Doyle ended his PGE Ekstraliga debut for Krosno with 10 points while Speedway GP first reserve Lebedevs notched nine and Czech racer Milik scored seven paid nine points Holder registering eight and Smektala picking up seven paid nine The day’s other scheduled meeting between champions Lublin and 2022 runners-up Wroclaw was postponed due to an adverse weather forecast For full details of the weekend’s PGE Ekstraliga results and the latest league table, visit (in Polish): https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/ We invite you to read another article by Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych in a series entitled “Life in the Ghetto” in which the authoress writes about such issues as problems with feeding the residents of the ghetto the activity of meal points that were organized on an ad hoc basis for its starving residents as well as kitchens dedicated to children and infants The author talks about the buildings of Courts that served as trafficking points for food smugglers Janusz Korczak’s efforts to obtain help for the Main House of Shelter about people and institutions which had to face a nearly impossible task: feeding and saving people from starving to death The articles are published on our website every week We invite you to read these uneasy accounts was placed in the Warsaw ghetto as  a teenager He portrays the hunger that accompanied the life of the residents of the closed district in a dramatic novel entitled ”Bread for the Departed” based on facts and his own experiences: „The first days of hunger are the worst each word becomes a painful noise ringing in the ears The jaws clench of their own accord and you feel a pain behind the ears at the sight of a tin spoon abandoned on a table A simple thought about a piece of swede is enough – suddenly your teeth tear stringy pulp apart with a crunch flows down your throat and wets the swollen tongue (…) The thought separates itself from swede and floats high above hundreds of thousands of people crammed in a small designated area of the so-called North District next to people who were craving bread and dreamed about swede there were those who ate at the L’Ourse café and “Gazeta Żydowska” [“The Jewish Newspaper”] informed on August 1 that the kitchen at 11 Leszno Street „will distribute 50 grams of candy for adults and additionally for children.” This does not change the general picture of the place in which acquiring food was a matter of great importance – necessary for Head of the Scientific and Research Department at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum the task of which was to combat street trade or food fraud by unfair manufacturers and/or sellers it was considered a Gestapo agency by the residents of the capital’s closed district This institution was located at 13 Leszno Street and so it was commonly called the “Thirteen” Henryk Bryskier wrote about the employees of this institution in the following way: “The organizers of the said Office proceeded to recruit lower officers and senior officials from among the countrymen they knew The ones who joined in were above all refugees or provincial resettlers from Lodz and Czestochowa They were dressed up in official hats with a green rim and yellow armbands Ranks and identification cards were given […] entitling them to walk even after the curfew” (Henryk Bryskier Żydzi pod swastyką czyli getto w Warszawie w XX wieku [Jews Under the Swastika The leaders of the “Thirteen” were: Abraham Gancwajch Emanuel Ringelblum wrote about the former: “A lot has been said about Gancwajch lately […] In the street they say that night orgies are taking place in Gancwajch’s premises How much truth there is in it – I could not find out Gancwajch promises to set up a kitchen for Jews from Leszno (Street) but people are craving to get into his premises” (Emanuel Ringelblum Kronika getta warszawskiego [The Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto] Gancwajch was known in the ghetto for arranging meetings to which he would invite representatives of the ghetto’s cultural and social elite Adam Czerniaków noted in his diary under May 4 among others: “A few days ago Gancwajch organized a meeting (tea) Korczak was there” (Adama Czerniakowa dziennik z getta warszawskiego [The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow]: ed added: “There were decent people who had been in their entourage for some time […] The fear of the <<Thirteen >> is so great that some honest people do not dare not come when invited by them there are many people who are fooled by his sweet words and [that] he is trying to prove what good deeds he has done to the Jews how many severe restrictions he has overturned […] The impression that his speeches make (he gives great speeches in Jewish and Hebrew) collapses very quickly People sober up and all is left for them is a bad after-taste” (Emanuel Ringelblum Kronika getta warszawskiego [The Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto] the more so because the splendid (and therefore very expensive) parties thrown by Gancwajch are known among the ghetto’s inhabitants connected with the bar mitzvah of Abraham Gancwajch’s son – Samuel in the documents collected by Emanueal Ringelblum’s collaborators: “On the first day of Shavuot a morning performance took place at the New Azazel Theater which had been bought out by the “Thirteen” […] Here is what I saw there: […] A prince approaches the table and gives a <<drasha>> in the language of his forefathers He assures that he will be a good Jew and – adds hesitating – a decent man He announces that he is aware of his rights and obligations Getto warszawskie [The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto] the participant of this event asks with sadness: “What is to be admired more: the cynicism or the stupidity of the organizer?” (Ibidem knowing that its organization engulfed huge financial resources for the fight against the omnipresent famine headquartered in the tenement house at 13 Leszno Street was officially shut down in August of 1941 It happened as a result of a conflict between the German civilian administration and the police in the General Government The tenement house in which the “Thirteen” had resided among others the original tiles which can be seen in the building’s gate Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych – cultural anthropologist in recent years curator at the Museum of Warsaw researcher of Janusz Korczak’s life and legacy She cooperates with the Forum for Dialogue Foundation and the Centre for Yiddish Culture She is the authoress of texts on “the final matters” – the final journey of Korczak and his charges the final performance given by the wards of the Jewish Orphanage See the event on Facebook It’s been 80 years since the Nazi Germans began the so-called “Grossaktion Warschau” – a huge deportation of Jews to the extermination camp in Treblinka from Umschlagplatz – the square at Stawki Street from which transportations to the gas chambers took place – as well as on the overcrowded trains going to the camp We invite you to take part in the March of Remembrance we will pay tribute to the victims of the great deportation the Jewish refugees and deportees from cities and towns in occupied Poland and Europe who died in the Warsaw Ghetto due to hunger and disease or were killed in Treblinka in the summer of 1942 gate at the Żelazna Street/Leszno Street intersection Jews displaced from towns near Warsaw are waiting to enter the ghetto Warsaw ghetto wall on Bonifraterska Street Every fourth person in the “Jewish district” was forcibly displaced from cities and towns such as Łódź The refugees lived in the worst conditions and were the first to be sent to Treblinka The March will start on July 22 at 6.00 p.m at the Umschlagplatz Memorial in Warsaw (10 Stawki Street on the corner of Dzika Street) and will follow the symbolic route ‘from death to life’ which will end at Stare Nalewki Street – this is where the center of Jewish Warsaw was located before the war The March will conclude with a concert prepared by the cellist and arranger Michał Pepol in collaboration with Sława Przybylska the participants of the March will carry symbolic Ribbons of Remembrance with the names of murdered Jewish deportees and refugees On Stare Nalewki Street an open-air exhibition devoted to their memory We have planned accompanying events around the installation – details will be provided soon 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Reinhardt” Until the end of the operation in November 1943 the Germans murdered nearly 2 million Jews from the General Government and other European countries: Czech Republic Thousands of Jews were also shot in the streets of the ghettos and died of lack of water and air during transportation most of the large Jewish communities in occupied Poland ceased to exist Organizer: the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute Route: Umschlagplatz Memorial – Stawki Street – Andersa Street – along Krasiński Garden – Stare Nalewki Street  Volunteers will give out the ribbons containing names of murdered Jews Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the extermination of Jews as part of the German Operation "Reinhardt" is under the Honorary Patronage of President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda The March of Remembrance is under the Honorary Patronage of the President of the Capital City of Of Warsaw Taube CenterForum for DialogueHillel WarsawThe Mazovia Institute of CultureWarsaw Ghetto MuseumSocio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland Jet LinePolskie Radio Program IIRzeczpospolitaStröerTVP KulturaWirtualna Polska The project entitled "Organization of the events March of Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust in Treblinka" co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage The project is financed by Iceland Liechtenstein and Norway from the EEA Grants and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage began the so-called liquidation action of the Warsaw Ghetto the Jews were to be "relocated to the East" Every day 3,000 to 8,000 people were deported to Treblinka from the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw; 300,000 Jews were led this way during the 46 days of the "operation" Only a handful of those led onto the trains managed to jump out and saved themselves Few refugees from Treblinka returned to Warsaw and provided information about gas chambers many died from lack of air while being transported in overcrowded cattle cars in the face of the inevitable extermination the Jews decided to fight for honor and a dignified death the uprising was suppressed by the German occupant and Warsaw was recognized as a city "judenfrei" – free of Jews the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute organizes the March of Remembrance on the anniversary of these tragic events commemorating the largest Jewish community in pre-war Europe Danish racer Leon Madsen picked up 12 paid 13 points for Czestochowa as they defied an 18-point maximum from Janusz Kolodziej to win 49-41 away to Leszno in the PGE Ekstraliga on Friday Kolodziej continued his red-hot start to 2023 with his first-ever 18-point but it wasn’t enough to save the Bulls from defeat at Alfred Smoczyk Stadium Madsen led the Lions with plenty of support from fellow Speedway GP star Mikkel Michelsen on 11 paid 12 while Jakub Miskowiak added 10 paid 12 and Kacper Woryna notched nine paid 10 Wroclaw star Artem Laguta stormed to 12 points as Wroclaw pulled out a four-point lead at the PGE Ekstraliga summit by winning 48-42 away to Grudziadz Six of the visiting side contributed at least five points with Piotr Pawlicki recording 10 paid 11 and triple world champion Tai Woffinden collecting nine Dan Bewley scored six paid seven and Maciej Janowski registered five Triple Australian champion Max Fricke impressed on his old home track with 15 points from six for Grudziadz while three-time world champion Nicki Pedersen added 11 and Denmark’s Frederik Jakobsen notched six paid nine Sunday’s PGE Ekstraliga matches see Krosno host Gorzow For full details of the day’s results, scorers and the latest league table, click here: https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/en/  Great Britain racer Robert Lambert warmed up for next week’s FIM Speedway Grand Prix opener in Croatia by dropping just one point to an opponent as Torun trounced Leszno 59-31 at the Marian Rose Motoarena on Friday Lambert - second in last year's SGP season opener in Donji Kraljevec - returns to Croatia in fine form after racing to 11 paid 14 points in the PGE Ekstraliga showdown with his tally bettered only by teammate Emil Sayfutdinov as the triple FIM Speedway of Nations world champion racked up 14 World No.6 Lambert was only denied a maximum when Leszno’s Grzegorz Zengota got the better of him in heat seven before the Pole returned to the track in heat eight and ended Sayfutdinov’s bid for a full house Former world No.2 Patryk Dudek also impressed for the home side on 10 paid 12 while Wiktor Lampart picked up a handy nine paid 11 Zengota starred for the Bulls on 11 paid 12 points with former World Under-21 champion Bartosz Smektala notching nine and Speedway GP newcomer Andzejs Lebedevs registering five paid seven Polish icon Bartosz Zmarzlik zoomed to 13 paid 14 points as Lublin continued their 100-percent start to 2024 with a 55-35 win at home to his old club Gorzow Zmarzlik was only beaten by Danish star Anders Thomsen in heat 13 Aussie ace Jack Holder scored 12 paid 13 and Fredrik Lindgren picked up 10 paid 11 as all three warmed up for the FIM Speedway GP of Croatia on Saturday Orlen FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Warsaw wild card Mateusz Cierniak raced to seven paid nine with SGP newcomer Dominik Kubera registering five paid six points with Slovakia’s world No.3 Martin Vaculik scoring seven paid nine and Szymon Wozniak adding seven Young gun Oskar Paluch impressed on six paid seven as he shows great form ahead of the SGP2 qualifiers on June 8 For full details of the day’s results, scorers and the latest league table, please visit https://ekstraliga.pl/en/se (link in Polish) Latvian ace Andzejs Lebedevs followed up his full-time Speedway GP debut by racing to 12 paid 13 points for Leszno as they were held to a 45-45 draw at home to Zielona Gora in the PGE Ekstraliga on Sunday Lebedevs registered three victories for the Bulls and former world No.2 Jaroslaw Hampel was the only visiting rider to get the better of him as the Polish star blazed to a sensational 14 points on his old home track The Latvian was supported by a 10 paid 11-point tally from Leszno teammate Janusz Kolodziej while Grzegorz Zengota notched nine and 2023 SGP2 silver medallist Damian Ratajczak added eight paid nine Hampel was backed up by the Leszno-born Pawlicki brothers for Falubaz with Przemyslaw scoring nine paid 10 and Piotr adding eight paid nine Speedway GP rider Jan Kvech registered one paid two Danish racer Leon Madsen picked up 14 points from six rides for Czestochowa but it was not enough to save them from a 48-42 loss away to Gorzow Former SGP star Anders Thomsen topped the home side’s score chart on 12 paid 13 with Slovak star Martin Vaculik registering nine paid 11 and Speedway GP newcomer Szymon Wozniak picking up eight paid nine Lions star Madsen was supported by 10 paid 11 from European champion Mikkel Michelsen Artem Laguta and Maciej Janowski bagged 12 paid 13 points apiece as Sparta stormed to a convincing 53-37 win over Grudziadz Last year’s SGP2 bronze medallist Bartlomiej Kowalski weighed in with a useful eight paid 11 Former World Under-21 champion Jaimon Lidsey was Grudziadz’s top performer on 12 with Max Fricke scoring five paid seven and Jason Doyle registering four – just 24 hours before racing to a dramatically-improved second place at the Boll FIM Speedway GP of Croatia Fredrik Lindgren and Bartosz Zmarzlik all contributed 10 points to Lublin’s tally as the champions eased to a 53-37 win at home to Torun Speedway GP newcomer Dominik Kubera collected eight paid 11 with Warsaw wild card Mateusz Cierniak accruing six paid seven Former world No.3 Emil Sayfutdinov scored a sublime 16 for Torun with Great Britain racer Robert Lambert notching nine paid 11 and Patryk Dudek recording nine paid 10 the second tier’s sole Speedway GP rider Kai Huckenbeck followed up his first-ever SGP semi-final appearance by scoring 12 paid 13 points for Bydgoszcz as they won 57-33 at home to Lodz The next PGE Ekstraliga action sees Czestochowa host Wroclaw in a rearranged clash on Tuesday For full details of the PGE Ekstraliga results and scorers, click HERE (link in Polish). Polish racer Janusz Kolodziej is set for surgery after suffering a broken bone in his shoulder as well as a dislocation during Leszno’s 54-35 loss away to Grudziadz on Friday The former Speedway GP winner crashed while leading race 12 after being caught by former teammate Jaimon Lidsey Kolodziej confirmed on his official Facebook page that he suffered a dislocated shoulder as well as a fracture to his greater tubercle – the bone at the tip of the shoulder The post read: “Janusz Kołodziej has already undergone tests The captain of FOGO Unia Leszno suffered a dislocation of the shoulder joint with a fracture of the greater tubercle it is difficult to say how long it will take for Janusz to return to the track Kolodziej ended the match with 10 paid 11 points which still made him Leszno’s top performer Speedway GP star Andzejs Lebedevs scored seven along with Grzegorz Zengota Aussie ace Max Fricke led Grudziadz to victory with a 14 paid 15-point maximum with Vadim Tarasenko also unbeaten on 13 paid 15.  Former Speedway GP world champion Jason Doyle warmed up for next Saturday’s Orlen FIM Speedway GP of Poland – Warsaw by bagging 11 paid 13 Great Britain star Robert Lambert also maintained his strong scoring ahead of Warsaw racing to 12 paid 13 points for Torun as they triumphed 52-38 at home to Wroclaw Lambert was aided by a 10 paid 11-point tally from Patryk Dudek Former Speedway GP world champion Artem Laguta led Wroclaw’s score chart on 13 paid 15 from six Dan Bewley recording nine and Tai Woffinden registering two Sunday’s fixtures see Czestochowa welcome champions Lublin before fireworks are expected as Zielona Gora hosts Gorzow the first Lubuskie derby since Falubaz’s top-flight return For full details of Friday’s results, scorers and the latest league table, click HERE. Karen Kirsten's mother was smuggled out of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto during the Holocaust and ended up being raised in Australia by two people she thought were her biological parents, until a surprise letter from Canada revealed that to be a lie.  Karen joined Suzanne Hill on Nightlife to talk about her journey back in time to Poland in World War 2 uncover the truth about her mother's tragic childhood.  Warsaw Ghetto: Karmelicka Street viewed from corner of Leszno Streets. On the left Karmelicka 1 / Leszno 30 building, and on the right Karmelicka 2 / Leszno 28 building. Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 101I-134-0796-30. Published: 12h agoMon 5 May 2025 at 12:00pm Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts June 27 this year Representatives of the Department of Education and Science of the Marshal's Office of the Greater Poland Voivodeship the Teachers' Improvement Center in Leszno and the Center for the Support of Crafts as well as the Careers and Alumni Office and the Young Researchers Office met at Gdańsk University of Technology Members of the Provincial Coordination Team joined the Young Researchers Picnic organized as part of the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the Gdańsk University of Technology The delegation from the Greater Poland Voivodeship met to exchange good practices regarding activities undertaken for students They also presented the tasks implemented by the Self-Government of the Greater Voivodeship as part of the idea of ​​"lifelong learning" including the project "Building a system for coordinating and monitoring regional activities for vocational education including adult learning" implemented in the Greater Poland Voivodeship The visit was an introduction to establishing broader cooperation Great Britain racer Robert Lambert admits he “couldn’t be happier” to be staying with Torun for 2023 while 2012 world champion Chris Holder’s move to Leszno has been confirmed Lambert moves into the senior ranks for next season after racing as Torun’s under-24 rider in recent years The world No.5 has become a big favourite at the Marian Rose Motoarena and can’t wait to return next year So it’s official now I’m staying in Klub Sportowy Toruń for another two years and I couldn’t be happier about that.” Aussie ace Holder has completed his transfer to Leszno after leaving relegated side Ostrow He joins forces with the likes of former Speedway GP winner Janusz Kolodziej ex-World Under-21 champions Bartosz Smektala and Jaimon Lidsey A skin for model of Antonov / PZL Mielec An-2 from SibWings A repaint of Aeroklub Leszczynski SP-AMN number 1G174-41 Poland Screenshot of Antonov An-2 SP-AMN on the ground View important Copyright © information related to freeware files here The archive an-2_sp-amn.zip has 17 files and directories contained within it This list displays the first 500 files in the package Signing-up for PRO gives you super fast, unrestricted speed to the thousands of MSFS, FSX, P3D & X-Plane downloads which include aircraft, scenery, and more - click here to view the library for free or.. Sign-Up Now PRO membership payments go directly back into the website to pay for hosting It's what also enables us to offer a free download tier Join over 145,000 subscribers of our free dedicated flight simulation newsletter Are you using the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release Jan 27, 2023 | , The Swiss Air Force Super Puma Display Team have released their 2023 Display Dates with featured airshows in Switzerland Extensive new centre in Leszno set to become key facility for Trio products in Europe WEIR Minerals Europe are expanding their operations in Poland with the opening of a new facility in Leszno The new centre is three times the size of the existing facility and incorporates increased office space a specialist training area and two overhead cranes allowing Weir Minerals’ engineers to work safely on the largest and heaviest products in the company’s range such as the 12-tonne Trio TP 260 cone crusher Weir Minerals Europe’s comminution general manager said: ‘The success of our activities in Europe meant that the team outgrew the existing facility in Poland in a relatively short space of time ‘The new centre enables us to keep a sizeable inventory incorporate training and testing facilities and offer better support to customers who require customized products for their applications ‘The cranes will allow our operatives to move the largest items of Trio equipment safely and carry out comprehensive maintenance in the workshop area ‘A further benefit is that the plant is very close to a major new highway which connects all the key freight routes throughout Europe.’ A number of new jobs have been created as a result of the expansion which was officially opened on 29 September will become one of the company’s key facilities for Trio products in Europe holding a comprehensive inventory of products and spare parts The centre will also play an important role in helping the local team in Poland manage both the demands of the growing customer base and requirements for replacement parts As a result of the increased space at the new centre the team will be able to offer on-site manufacturing services including It is anticipated that screen assembly will take place at the facility in the near future a section of the premises will be dedicated to aftersales care where the Weir Minerals maintenance team will train customers’ service personnel and engineers in key areas such as equipment maintenance and how to spot the signs that repairs may be required jobs events and articles direct to your inbox Subscribe Here Agg-Net is the ‘go-to’ website for key decision makers within the aggregates and recycling industries market reports and industry features provide an independent and informed voice for the industry Agg-Net is the official digital partner for Hillhead providing unrivalled coverage of our June event 7 Regent StreetNottinghamNG1 5BSUnited KingdomTel: +44 (0)115 941 1315