Ksawery Masiuk fell just 0.02 shy of his second national record in as many days with victory in the 50 back at the Polish Championships in Lublin The 20-year-old stopped the clock in 24.46 a sliver off his Polish standard of 24.44 which he’s posted on three occasions most recently en-route to the bronze medal at the 2024 World Championships It followed his national record of 52.55 in the 100 back on Tuesday as he booked his third individual swim at the World Championships in Singapore with the two backstroke events and the 100 fly His time elevates Masiuk to sixth-fastest performer in the 2025 rankings which are topped by Kliment Kolesnikov who’s the only man inside 24secs following his 23.90 at the Russian Championships Aleksander Stys replicated his 100 back silver in 25.32 with Tomasz Polewka third in 25.34 Adela Piskorska also completed the 50/100 back double with a 28.17 victory over one length as she went inside the A cut for the worlds Varvara Hlushchenko was second in 28.44 with Paulina Peda third in 28.60 a day after the women tied for second in the 100 European bronze medallist Jan Kalusowski punched his ticket to Singapore with a 2:10.19 win in the 200m breaststroke 0.01 swifter than the 2:10.20 that secured bronze at the 2024 continental championships in Belgrade Only Dawid Wiekiera has gone quicker among Polish swimmers with his national record of 2:09.99 from the Polish Grand Prix in 2022 Wiekiera was second in 2:11.13 with Jan Gajda third in 2:15.70 Kinga Paradowska won the women’s race in 2:31.05 Aleksandra Knop made another trip to the podium as she added the women’s 200 fly title to her 400IM and 200 back golds in 2:10.85 Adrian Jaśkiewicz went ahead on the second 50 to come home in 1:57.46 for the men’s title Thirty-year-old Filip Zaborowski went ahead on the third 50 of the men’s 400 free to take the title in 3:54.55 with Klaudia Tarasiewicz touching first by more than five seconds in the women’s race in 4:15.55 Welcome to our community. 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partnering with the state tourism department to promote the country Italian Sara Curtis won her fourth gold medal after just three days of racing at European Juniors extending the country’s lead on the medal table March 05th, 2025 Europe, European Championships, International, News After announcing that Poland would be the host country of the 2025 European Short Course Championships late last year European Aquatics has confirmed that the city of Lublin will stage the event this December This marks the second time Poland has hosted the biennial event with the 2011 edition being held in Szczecin Lublin has a population of approximately 350,000 making it the ninth largest city in Poland and the largest in eastern Poland with the Masters Short Course Championships to follow at the same venue from December 10-16 A post shared by European Aquatics (@euroaquatics) European Aquatics President Antonio Silva and Polish Swimming Federation President Otylia Jędrzejczak jointly promoted Poland hosting the SC European Championships at the 2024 Short Course World Championships in December “It was a long time ago when Poland last hosted a top European Aquatics event,” Silva said so it was time to return to this beautiful country and I’m grateful for Otylia and the federation to stage this great event “Let’s hope we’ll have more records there as well as European swimmers are doing really well this year and I’m sure they will do in 2025 too ”Looking ahead to the ‘really thrilling’ event,” Jedzrejczak said: “We have a very talented team whose members were very young when we had the last big swimming event back in 2011 the short-course Europeans in Szczecin and now they can show their quality in a home meet.” The last edition of SC Euros was held in Otopeni with Great Britain topping the medal table Poland ranks 10th on the all-time medal table for the SC European Championships with 35 gold and 95 total medals They didn’t send any swimmers to the 2023 event This will be the 23rd 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Huntington Drug PTC518 Meets Primary End Point in Phase 2 Study Episode 140: Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s: Clinical Trials, Equity, and Patient-Centered Progress FDA Authorizes Expanded Access Program for ALS Treatment SPG302 Episode 139: Sleep and Seizures: Emerging Insights From AAN 2025 Hormonal and Neurological Complexity in Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery for Women NeurologyLive® Brain Games: May 4, 2025 609-716-7777 The city of Lublin will stage this year’s European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships Confirmation of the hosts for this event follows the announcement last July that it would be held in Poland for the second time after the 2011 edition that took place in Szczecin is the ninth largest city in Poland and the largest in eastern Poland Competition will take place from December 2 to 7 with the same venue then hosting the Masters Short Course Championships from December 10 to 16 This will be the second edition of the Masters SC event and more details about how to register for this competition will be available soon European Aquatics President Antonio Silva and Polish Swimming Federation President Otylia Jędrzejczak jointly promoted the 2025 European Short Course Championships when they appeared at a press event during the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest last December Standing alongside Jędrzejczak – who won world titles either side of Athens 2004 gold in the 200m butterfly – Silva reflected on the last time Poland hosted this event “It was a long time ago when Poland last hosted a top EA event” Silva told the media gathering in the Duna Arena ”Looking ahead to the “really thrilling” event Jedzrejczak said: “We have a very talented team whose members were very young when we had the last big swimming event back in 2011 the short-course Europeans in Szczecin and now they can show their quality in a home meet” She added that the European Short Course Championships will be a flagship event to advertise Poland across the continent working in co-operation with Poland Travel The last European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships were held in 2023 at Otopeni in Romania with Great Britain topping the medals table after collecting nine golds Home swimmer David Popovici earned bronze in the 100m freestyle a year ahead of his winning performance in the 200m freestyle at the Paris 2024 Games Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi won gold in the 50m breaststroke and silver in the 100m breaststroke – the event where he would earn Olympic gold a year later Another future Paris 2024 champion making a splash was Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen 800m and 1500m freestyle titles – setting a world record in the second of those events – a year before winning 800m freestyle gold at the Olympics Also earning a hat-trick of titles was Switzerland’s 23-year-old Noe Ponti breaking the European record in the 100m race Ponti produced a stellar performance at last December’s World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest where he set three world records en route to earning three golds Tel: +41 22 552 99 99Fax: +41 22 552 99 89eaoffice@europeanaquatics.org  Powered by MicroPlus Data Processing & Timing Poland has hosted an event titled "In the Glow of the Bethlehem Light of Peace and of the Lights of Hanukkah at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin The event was attended by Bishop Mieczysław Cisło and a representative of the Jewish community The participants recalled the words of Pope Francis who offered his heartfelt "wishes of peace and fraternity" on the occasion of Hanukkah "May the light of Bethlehem and the light of Hanukkah hosted together for the third time at the Catholic University of Lublin be an eloquent symbol of the Catholic-Jewish dialogue John Paul II," emphasised the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin offered his well wishes for "the Feast of Lights celebrated for eight days by our Jewish brothers and sisters throughout the world." his heartfelt "wishes of peace and fraternity." 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The event was attended by representatives of the Catholic Church professors and staff of the Catholic University of Lublin and local residents who gathered in front of the Main Building of the John Paull II at the Catholic University of Lublin Heschel Centre for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin who served from 2006 until 2016 as the Chairman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Committee for Dialogue with Judaism referred in the prayer opening the ceremony to the motto of the Jubilee Year just begun in the Catholic Church: Hope does not disappoint Neocatechumenal and Jewish cantors sang hymns during the ceremony The organizers expressed their sincere thanks to the representatives of the Neocatechumenate for all the times they have participated in the event that united two religions and two cultures in Lublin the director of the Heschel Centre of the Catholic University of Lublin and head of the Polish section of Vatican News stressed that combining the Bethlehem Light of Peace with the light of Hanukkah has a symbolic dimension and draws attention to the shared values of peace and collaboration between Jews and Christians "The lighting of the last Hanukkah candle in the presence of the Bethlehem Light of Peace is an expression of the Christian-Jewish dialogue so much cherished and called for by St Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and a member of the Honorary Committee of the Abraham J sent his greetings to the participants of the event she stressed that "as our faith deepens She noted that "Hanukkah means dedication to rededicate ourselves to our faith." 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The graphical interpretation of the liquidity index The figure enables the quantities pertaining to the sample’s water content It demonstrates the range of soil moisture in different consistencies and correlates with the value of the liquidity index The test and analysis methodology discussed in the paper is applicable for an arbitrary soil type for which the literature does not provide a reliable interpretive formula for estimating cohesive soil state based on CPTU tests Research area location against worldwide loess distribution [the map base utilised in the figure was obtained from https://www.geoportal.gov.pl/] The figure comprises areas at varying scales which approximate the test plot from which the material for the study was derived A simplified world map demonstrates the global distribution of loess deposits across all continents within the context of the Lublin Voivodeship as is the topographical delineation of the Lublin Upland and the Naleczow Plateau together with the locations of boreholes 10 A CPTU survey had previously been conducted at a distance of approximately 0.5–1.0 m from the sampling location The interpretive formulae IL = f(qc) sourced from: (a) Polish Standard (PN-B 04452 Pietrzykowski (Frankowski and Pietrzykowski A review of the related literature enabled the identification of correlations between the cone resistance values obtained from the CPTU test and the liquidity index across a range of soil types This in turn facilitated the extraction of formulae that are declared to be specifically applicable to loess b and c from the selected and referenced studies enabled the applicability of the formulas to be verified for the loess of the study area while the graph presented in part d represents the findings of the authors’ preliminary research conducted on loess samples from the Lublin region The text provides a comprehensive analysis of the potential for estimating the liquidity index through the utilisation of diverse formulae should be appropriate for the Lublin loess which is mainly classified granulometrically as silt but the values obtained do not coincide with the results of laboratory tests A considerably improved adjustment is obtained for the function designed for soils with the clay fraction content fi in the range of 10–30% described by the formula: the established formula does not correspond perfectly to the Lublin loess and overestimates IL in this case but in the author’s original intention it was meant for ‘cohesive compacted clays’ the theoretically more appropriate formula was found to have a lower degree of accuracy the limiting values of qc at which IL=0 are qc≈4.5 MPa for ‘cohesive compacted clays’ and qc ≈ 7 MPa for ‘other clays and low cohesive soils’ The given formulae showed a goodness of fit of R2 = 0.60 (for the linear function) and R2 = 0.61 (for the polynomial function) These relationships represented a pre-estimation and need to be confirmed in further research noting that excess pore water pressure can significantly affect the values adopted for correlation relationships The formula developed applied to low-cohesive soils among which the author included in particular highly sandy silts and clayey sands He defined the correlation relationship between liquidity index and net cone resistance as: where \(\:{I}_{\text{L}}\) – liquidity index [–-] \(\:{q}_{\text{n}}\) – net cone resistance For low-cohesive soils with a predominant silty fraction and values of the friction ratio Rf and normalized pore pressure ratio Bq specific for loess the recommended values of the coefficients a and b are respectively 0.25 and 0.44 despite the numerous relationships reported in the literature most attempts to apply formulae directly according to granulometry usually result in deviations from the actual IL values Tschuschke or Wiłun) allow the estimation of IL values close to those obtained in the laboratory but this often requires the use of equations for soils with different granulometric characteristics and applies only to a narrow range of qc values The detailed geotechnical cross-section provides a concise and informative representation of the subsoil within the study area The boundaries between the separate geotechnical layers are illustrated as are the names and symbols of the soils that comprise them in the form of completed CPTU (including bh 10 as well as additional in situ test locations and boreholes the cross-section supplies data regarding groundwater levels and the topography of the land is classified as silt and partly silty clay these soils occur most frequently in a semi-solid to solid or hard-plastic state; however a significant amount of the subsoil in the area concerned consists of plasticized soils This prompted a calibration study that use static soundings Part 1 (for natural water content) and Part 12 (for consistency limits) The sounding parameters, together with the natural water content established in the laboratory, are shown in Fig. 5. Soil water content wn against cone resistance qc and friction ratio Rf from CPTU The figure illustrates the data obtained from the CPTU test presented in the form of graphs of cone resistance and friction ratio for three selected tests the values of the natural water content of the soil samples The samples collected comprised material from the layer and their water content was determined as an average for the entire volume of the each sample The graphs demonstrated a statistically significant association between the observed changes in moisture content and the corresponding values of cone resistance Summary of the results of the liquid limit (estimated with the use of Casagrande method) The chart represents a typical Casagrande liquid limit test The coordinates of the points on the graph indicate the number of strokes of the apparatus bowl during the test for the specified soil paste The results for the entire test sample are presented in a single graph with the liquid limit determined separately for two samples with notably disparate characteristics which was extracted at a depth of 2.5 m (LL = 30.7) which was extracted at a depth of 10 m (LL = 32.7) a single averaged liquid limit value of 28.3 was determined The plasticity index IP of the majority of the samples varies between 6.5 and 9.7%, which classifies the soils as low cohesive (silt) according to the standard32 Only the results for samples bh10 [2.5 m depth] and bh25 [10 m depth] classify them as medium cohesive with the plasticity index IP =10.5 and IP = 14.2% The completed analyses allowed the development of a quasi-continuous subsoil profile parameterized by natural water content, Atterberg limits, plasticity index and fluidity index. Figure 7 shows the summarized laboratory results for all samples collected. Distribution at depth: natural water content; Atterberg limits; plasticity index The three presented graphs illustrate the laboratory results obtained for the collected loess samples The first graph illustrates the natural water content the second depicts the consistency limits and resulting plasticity index while the third graph indicates the liquidity index values The graphs illustrate the variation in the determined quantities at depth for each borehole Grain size distribution bh10, bh25, bh35. A crucial element of soil laboratory testing is the identification of its grain size. Loess from the study area underwent areometric analysis, with select samples also subjected to laser diffraction analysis. The conducted tests resulted in the establishment of limiting grain size curves for the soil, defining the maximum content of individual fractions. In summary, the investigations reveal that the soil states range from solid to hard plastic down to a depth of about 5–6 m below the surface. In the deeper parts of the subsoil, a significant increase in plasticity is observed with depth. It should be highlighted that the trend of the IL values from the laboratory tests coincides with the resistance of the cone qc. Distribution of qC values from CPT static soundings in the Lublin area with division into facies The diverse morphological characteristics of a given soil type are indicative of the specific climatic conditions under which they were formed aeolian loess were formed through the wind erosion of the bedrock these materials were transported by wind and deposited under arid conditions exhibiting minimal alteration from their original characteristics throughout the sedimentary process deluvial and alluvial loess were subjected to other processes resulting in the evolution of formations with disparate characteristics from those of typical loess As a result of the extensive research conducted previously by the authors a statistical distribution of the characteristic qc values for the individual facies was established The results obtained for loess from the research plot are marked by the red square in the diagram which serves to confirm the representativeness of the research sample for loess in the Lublin region Liquidity index as a function of the dimensionless cone resistance A detailed examination of the laboratory-based liquidity index results and the corresponding average cone resistance values enabled the formulation of a linear and polynomial function that accurately represents the observed relationship the figure illustrates the coefficient of determination (R2) for each function providing evidence of the function’s reliability in aligning with the empirical outcomes Results significantly deviating from the trend were excluded from further analysis The remaining data indicated a covariance of -8.77 The following linear and polynomial relationships were derived: in which cone resistance qc is given in MPa For the polynomial function (10) a goodness of fit of R2 = 94% was obtained while for the linear regression (9) a slightly lower R2 = 92% was found in order to exclude the effect of test depth on the cone resistance value the IL variation was analysed against the normalised cone resistance Qt Liquidity index as a function of the normalised cone resistance Qt Further analysis involved the examination of liquidity index results and the corresponding average normalised cone resistance the figure indicates the coefficient of determination (R2) for established function which provides evidence of the reliability of the formula’s fit with the empirical results To validate the derived formula, Fig. 13 compares the IL values from laboratory tests with those obtained from Eq. (9). The solid line shows the averaged trend, while the dashed lines show the range of IL values ± 0.3. Comparison of IL values interpreted with the new formula. The figure provides a graphical representation of the relationship between the liquidity index values obtained from the tests and the IL values estimated from the linear function derived from the tests outlined in the paper. Furthermore, the graph illustrates the maximum range of results, presented on a larger scale. is a summary of the laboratory IL values against the continuous profile estimated from Eq. (9) in each borehole Figure 14 Comparison of laboratory IL values with results obtained using the estimated formula based on qc The graphs illustrate the point results of the laboratory liquidity index determined on the basis of samples from boreholes 10 they reflect the continuous at-depth IL values obtained through the interpretation of the qc/pa quantities The results presented in summary form facilitate comparison between the calculated values and the laboratory-determined values Summary of interpretation equations with the highest alignment The diagrams prepared for the three test boreholes demonstrate a variation in IL values with depth These values have been estimated on the basis of interpretation formulae that have been accepted as appropriate for the analysis of Lublin loess in the context of published literature The Liquidity Index was calculated in accordance with the formula developed by the Polish Standard for cohesive soils containing a clay fraction of between 10 and 30% and Wiłun (for clays) and as outlined by the ITB the IL values derived from the authors’ research methodology are indicated For loess occurring in the Lublin region, the authors suggest the use of a linear relationship established on the basis of calibration tests described in this article. In addition to the use of the formula (9), it is also possible to determine the IL based on Fig. 16. The nomogram offers a synthesis of available functions when applied to a known qc value expressed in MPa enables the estimation of the predicted liquidity index for the Lublin loess The nomogram serves as a valuable engineering instrument for the expeditious estimation of subsoil quality at the initial stage of in situ testing a linear function developed by the authors and the collective literature formulae applicable for loess Despite the very good convergence obtained in the tests performed the authors consider that the IL value should be an auxiliary parameter while the qc should be the leading value for the identification of geotechnical layers subsoil identification cannot be based on soundings solely and the selected tests should be verified by boreholes It is essential to carry out boreholes and soundings at nodes to improve interpretation loess often shows reduced qc values that do not correlate with a change in state This is mainly the case in the near-surface zone This is explained by the fact that the IL value depends mainly on the natural water content and clay fraction content but qc is also influenced by a number of other factors in-situ stresses and overconsolidation ratio reduced cone resistance may be related not only to the condition but also to the structure of the soil and be an indicator of its collapsibility The derived formula is considered to be a reasonable adaptation for plasticized loess It is therefore recommended to use the derived formula (9) for the determination of IL in the range 0.0 ÷ 1.0 To complement the above analyses, the influence of the liquidity index on the sleeve friction was analysed. The graph (Fig. 17) compares the sleeve friction in dimensionless form fs/pa with the liquidity index IL. Chart of the (fs/pa) – IL pairs distribution A further addition to the study was the verification of a correlation between the dimensionless value of sleeve friction (fs/pa) and the liquidity index value The laboratory-determined IL values and the corresponding averaged fs/pa values were plotted A formula for a linear function has been derived which represents a straight line approximating the points analysed in the IL>0 value range it should be noted that the applicability of this function is limited to the fs values shown in the CPTU test at 5.5 MPa It is inadvisable to employ values of fs/pa in excess of 550 as a basis for estimating IL values A discernible correlation was observed between the dimensionless sleeve friction value and the IL value within the range of 0.0 to 0.8 no such relationship was evident for IL values less than 0.0 The plotted linear function for the IL range of 0.8 to 0.0 was described by the following formula: The relationship between the dimensionless sleeve friction value and the IL value is characterised by a coefficient of determination of R² = 0.65 with the covariance of -37.4 and the Pearson coefficient of 0.80 it can be concluded that IL can be reliably determined at fs/pa < 550 The paper presents the methodology of calibration analysis for the determination of the liquidity index using CPTU static sounding results The research resulted in a valid formula as well as the nomogram for estimating the IL value of the aeolian loess of the Nałęczów Plateau from the dimensionless cone resistance qc/pa The function (9) derived from the analysis is recommended to estimate the liquidity index of the indicated loess in the range 0.0 ÷ 1.0 Semi-solid and solid states in the loess subsoil were noted when the cone penetration value exceeded 4.4 Stiff soil was anticipated for qc values between 3.25 and 4.4 while medium-soft soil was expected for values from 1.72 to 3.25 Soft soil was recognized with qc values ranging from 0.8 to 1.72 Cone resistance qc values from CPTU tests that fall below 0.8 suggest the existence of very soft soil a correlation was identified between the liquidity index and sleeve friction which can be deemed a reliable indicator for the fs/pa < 550 range the authors place particular emphasis on the fact that cone resistance qc rather than IL should be used for determining geotechnical layers within a soil type Despite the high compliance of the formula it should be remembered that static soundings only allows for a preliminary determination of the liquidity index The appropriate value should be determined in laboratory tests The data used to support the findings of this study are included within the article Zaskórski, L. & Puła, W. 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Media identifier - R40-01421 The Sunday TimesLublin has long been multicultural so many Hebrew scholars studied and resided here that it became known as the “Jewish Oxford”; today this hub of eastern Poland has nine universities that attract students from far and wide You might recognise some of its sites as locations from Academy Award winner A Real Pain Already announced as one of Europe’s Capitals of Culture for 2029 it’s affordable and photogenic courtesy of a pastel-coloured and wholly pedestrianised old town And while the city has been a place of tragedy as its haunting Majdanek Museum — on the site of a Nazi death camp from the Second World War — bears sober witness cocktails delivered by toy trains or an army of miniature goat sculptures Lublin has a quirky charm that makes a weekend visit thoroughly rewarding Lublin Castle has been continuously rebuiltALAMY48 hours in Lublin — at a glanceDay one• Morning: Lublin Castle• Lunch: U Szewca• Afternoon: Grodzka Gate• Drink at: Perlowa Beer House• Evening: Lipowa street cemetery• Dinner: Za Kulisami • Morning: Majdanek• Lunch: Pelier• Afternoon: Food tour• Drink at: Nocny Portier• Evening: Old town and Lubin Underground Trail• Dinner: Mandragora The Lipowa Street Cemetery is the oldest in the cityALAMYWhat to do and see• Adjoining one of the old town’s arched entrances the Grodzka Gate’s Memory of the Place exhibition informs about Lublin’s more recent past stories and sounds from pre-Holocaust days Some remain empty and the museum hopes to find the missing names of those lost (guided tours £9; teatrnn.pl).• Lublin Castle has been repeatedly rebuilt yet a cylindrical round tower survives from the 1200s and Inside the complex below are a 14th-century chapel whose terrific red-green biblical frescoes cover every surface plus the Lublin Museum’s folk art and weaponry (combined entry £8; zamek-lublin.pl) Protestant and Roman Catholic graves lay in scarcely separate sections re-emphasising Lublin’s cultural plurality beautifully kept graves and tombs shaded by lime trees and soundtracked by birdsong It’s almost as if you’re in the countryside.• One of six Nazi extermination camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust Its vast site (bring water and comfy shoes and arrive early at 9am) has reconstructed barracks and original gas chambers and there are videos of survivors’ tear-inducing testimonies yet essential (free; majdanek.eu).• A long-time Lublin resident the easygoing Dutchman Martin Dalebout gives bespoke tours His food-themed version can take in communist-era cafeterias an artisan bakery whose cebularz — Lublin’s staple snack: a poppy-seed flatbread topped with onions — has been the tastiest in town for decades (£125pp for two; martinscitytours.com).• Roam the enchanting miniature goat statues (a nod to the one on Lublin’s coat of arms) and the gravity-defying installation of a tightrope walker (inspired by one of the local novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer’s books) before inspecting the Lublin Underground Trail’s old cellars and dungeons (£7; teatrnn.pl) The heartbreaking Majdanek museum is located on the site of a Nazi death campALAMYWhere to eat and drinkU SzewcaFollow an elevated pathway into Lublin’s old town and you’ll find this labyrinthine pub where the city’s residents catch up in sport-themed rooms The lunchtime staple is zurek staropolski — a traditional chowder-like sour rye soup containing chunks of sausage bacon and boiled egg (soup from £4; uszewca.pl) • Read our full guide to Poland The local beer-maker Perla has grown too big to continue brewing at this site and instead uses the ivy-covered former monastery as a bar and restaurant where aficionados can enjoy flights of the brand’s delicious porter In summer there are also free courtyard screenings of English-language films (flight of four beers £5; perlowapijalniapiwa.pl) The old market square in LublinALAMYZa KulisamiClose to Fryderyka Chopina street’s art nouveau houses red-walled restaurant adjoins the glassy Centre of the Meeting of Cultures cultural hub Its à la carte menus are effectively Poland meets the Med — not least a superb starter imaginatively pairing high-quality grilled octopus with broad bean hummus and pear salsa (mains from £9; zakulisami.lublin.pl) • One of my family died at Auschwitz. 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This cheerful bistro has hanging birdcages and vintage clocks behind a faux-blossom frontage and terrace it’s open all day but best at brunch thanks to good toasted bagels crêpes and egg dishes (brunch mains from £6; pelier.pl) The cocktails at Nocny Portier are themed around moviesNocny PortierLublin’s best bar has upside-down pot plants absurd monkey portraiture and terrific cocktails from a movie-inspired menu Under a huge smoke bubble you must first pop the beetroot-powered Night Hunter is sensational You’ll need a password to visit the downstairs speakeasy (ask Martin during your food tour) where drinks at the bar arrive aboard trains on a toy railway (cocktails from £6; nocnyportier.pl) • 18 of the best affordable summer destinations in Europe Mandragora evokes private Jewish houses of yesteryear Alongside gigantic portions of modest dishes made from old recipes — such as roasted duck wings topped with pearl barley — rugs menorahs and monochrome family photos help to achieve this effect It’s as much a cultural as a dining experience (mains from £8; mandragora.lublin.pl) This article contains affiliate links that can earn us revenue convenient rentalsGiven their style notes — herringbone floors; exposed husks of red brick; minimal four-poster beds — these eight spacious en suite apartments represent a real bargain kitchenettes and views of either the old town or Lublin Castle (room-only doubles from £71; fontana-apartments.com) The IBB Grand Hotel Lublin has 72 high-ceilinged roomsCity-centre class and grandeurOccupying a belle époque building on the city’s main square (Plac Litewski) this ex-bank pairs a well-stocked bar and formal restaurant with 72 high-ceilinged chambers — some rather aggressively contemporary most sophisticated and decorated in rich navy hues The Deluxe category and up have espresso machines; ask for a room at the rear if you’re a light sleeper (B&B doubles from £84; ibbhotellublin.com) Old town boutique with a poolIn a 16th-century old-town tenement elegant rooms in which vintage furniture and brown-leather fittings set a fairly traditional tone The underwhelming breakfast spread is best skipped (room-only doubles from £156; hotelalter.pl) WizzAir flies direct from Luton to Lublin daily between April and November Ryanair operates the same route six times a week between April and mid-October get a train to Lublin Glowny station (£1.50; 30 minutes) or the No 5 bus to the more central Brama Krakowska stop (£1; 55 minutes) Become a subscriber and along with unlimited digital access to The Times and The Sunday Times you can enjoy a collection of travel offers and competitions curated by our trusted travel partners Sep 26, 2024 | Culture, Society Lublin in Poland has been selected as a European Capital of Culture for 2029 a prestigious title that the city hopes will raise its profile boost the economy and support local culture “We have once again proven that Lublin’s culture and its creators have enormous potential,” said mayor Krzysztof Żuk will be Poland’s third to hold the title since the European Capitals of Culture programme was launched almost 40 years ago 🎉 Lublin has been named the European Capital of Culture for 2029!✨ This vibrant city, already known as the European Youth Capital of 2023, is now getting ready to showcase its unique cultural flair to the rest of Europe. We can’t wait to see what 2029 will bring!#Lublin2029 pic.twitter.com/JxWt6o6DuJ — Poland Travel (@PolandTravel_UK) September 26, 2024 the European Union designates a city or several cities to hold a series of events to promote local culture and art for one calendar year over 60 places have been European Capitals of Culture including Kraków (2000) and Wrocław (2016) in Poland with a population of around 330,000 is Poland’s eight largest city hopes that holding the title will benefit not only local culture but also the economy and society more broadly “The experience of other cities shows that receiving the title has been a powerful boost for development,” the city wrote in a statement “It means hundreds of events attracting thousands of tourists and enormous promotion within Poland and globally.” “It also increases opportunities for reaching out for European funds to develop infrastructure and support social and cultural initiatives,” they added In applying to be European Capitals of Culture, Lublin chose as its slogan “RE:UNION”, referring to the historic Union of Lublin that created the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth The title is supposed to be “understood as renewed integration Its proposed programme includes projects intended to support artistic education for children and young people senior residents’ activation and participation and the development of creative industry entities The budget for the programme is estimated to reach €55 million (235 million zloty) with 85% expected to come from public funds including €12.5 million from the city itself €24.5 million (104.6 million zloty) from the culture ministry and €3.5 million from the European Union A video portal that until now has provided a live feed between Lublin and Vilnius has been connected to New York and Dublin, allowing people in the four cities to see – and interact with – one another in real time https://t.co/OkOwhBnBiz — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) August 30, 2024 “The European Capital of Culture is not only prestige It is first and foremost a tremendous opportunity to build a strong international brand to attract thousands of tourists and investors and above all to strengthen local identity to build community,” said Polish culture minister Hanna Wróblewska Twelve Polish cities applied to be named as the country’s European Capital of Culture in 2029 Four of them were shortlisted: Bielsko-Biała Their applications were assessed by independent experts appointed by the European Parliament A new bus station hailed as the "most beautiful in Poland" has opened in Lublin The building includes a range of features designed to reduce its environmental impact https://t.co/UXIXuy7k4z — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) January 20, 2024 Main image credit: Tomasz Zielonka / Unsplash Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist , , The project will strengthen national security and regional infrastructure , , , Figures from PiS have dismissed 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between them rotating every three minutes for a seven-hour period each day (2 p.m “We are delighted to welcome Dublin and New York – the latest cities joining this unique project,” said Lublin’s deputy mayor “We are pleased that our portal is gaining more and more reach and popularity opening up new possibilities for communication and cooperation on an international scale.” we can now look at Manhattan in New York and the centre of Dublin experiences and jointly initiate new projects,” added Stepaniuk-Kuśmierzak noted that his city’s portal has already drawn over 340,000 visitors since its launch “bringing a new lease of life to North Earl Street” foot traffic around the portal is reportedly up 47% on last year “We are delighted to see the network of cities expand to Vilnius and Lublin and look forward to seeing more people enjoy the portals experience,” said Geoghegan Gylys says that his aim “is to build multiple portals that together create a global entity – a bridge to a united planet that invites people from distant cultures to meet beyond borders He revealed that further portals will be opened in new locations later this year Dublin City Council is delighted to announce that 2 extra cities have been added to the Portal. As well as connecting with New York, people on North Earl St will be able to see Vilnius in Lithuania and Lublin in Poland. The livestreams will rotate every 180 seconds forming a… pic.twitter.com/bBJdFloHjn — Dublin City Council (@DubCityCouncil) August 27, 2024 Main image credit: Miasto Lublin  Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland [email protected] Who Went Overlooked at the TYR Pro Series; Alex Shackell Knocking on 2:05 Door As the TYR Pro Series wrapped up in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday night Fairness in Sport is Not Optional: Why USMS Needs to Change Transgender Policy Guest Editorial By Angie Griffin Every morning before the sun comes up Caribbean Swimmers Impress at Pro Swim Series Caribbean swimming is having a moment of renewed international relevance Receives Replacement Olympic Medals in Swiss Ceremony American sprinter Gary Hall Jr lost the 10 Olympic medals he earned over a stellar career during wildfires that swept Katie Ledecky Just Had Her Greatest Achievement With Latest World Record Two main factors have made Katie Ledecky the consensus greatest female swimmer in history The Para Swimming World Series recently touched down in Indianapolis and many of the nation’s greatest Para swimmers staked claim to wins across the three day competition The Spectacular Legacy of Sarah Sjostrom in the 50 Butterfly On Friday night Gretchen Walsh walked through a door in the sport that had previously been accessed by just one Luka Mijatovic Claims League Titles in ‘Off’ Events as High School Postseason Begins A rising star on the distance-freestyle scene 16-year-old Luka Mijatovic contested some “off” events during the East Florian Wellbrock Triumphs In 1500 Tussle With Sven Schwarz As Both Men Go 14:36; Elendt & Armbruster Post German Records Florian Wellbrock came out on top in a 1500 free Two Pro Swim Series Marks Ilya Kharun’s weekend at the TYR Pro Swim Series didn’t begin auspiciously July 23 was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland Commemorative ceremonies were held in Lublin where a memorial to the Nazi crimes was established shortly after the liberation in 1944 the date was hardly noticed by the official political establishment including one at the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum which commemorates the site of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the Second World War because it was the first major Nazi camp to be liberated by the Red Army as historian and Holocaust researcher Stephan Lehnstaedt put it at the Berlin memorial event “basically all aspects of occupation and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.” the history of Majdanek is particularly revealing It is here that the connection between Nazi Germany’s war of aggression against the Soviet Union and the Holocaust the extermination of the Jewish population which primarily affected Poland and Eastern Europe What began as a prison and forced labour camp as part of the Germanisation and resettlement policy ended with the murder of around 80,000 prisoners When Soviet soldiers and members of the Polish underground army reached the camp on the outskirts of Lublin in eastern Poland on the night of July 22-23,1944 they found a place of horror: burning barracks human remains and mountains of shoes of murdered people around a thousand prisoners in a pitiful state between life and death The SS guards had fled the camp a few hours before their arrival hastily burying corpses and transporting around a thousand prisoners to Auschwitz relatives and local residents flocked to the huge camp site they gathered at a memorial service in Lublin which was also attended by international war reporters The horrific images of the Nazi killing machine quickly spread around the world the pleas of Jewish exile groups to the American and British allied forces to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz where the mass murders continued day after day A Soviet-Polish camera team—including Stanisław Wohl, Aleksander Ford and Adolf Forbert, who would later found the Filmhochschule Łódź—immediately began work on a film documentary, which was released that same year: “Vernichtungslager Majdanek—Friedhof Europas” (Majdanek Extermination CampEurope’s Cemetery) in which original statements by survivors and captured SS guards can be heard just under a month after the camp was liquidated the initiative to establish a museum was launched Majdanek thus became the first concentration camp memorial in Europe to begin its work during the war a historic city in eastern Poland with a population of 120,000 at the time was located only about a hundred kilometres from the border with the Soviet Ukrainian Republic After the invasion of Poland on September 1 it became part of the occupied General Government of Poland under the command of General Governor Hans Frank the “Butcher of Poland” who was later executed in Nuremberg His right-hand man in the Lublin district was Odilo Globocnik whom Heinrich Himmler had appointed SS and police leader of Lublin notorious for his mistreatment of Jews and personal enrichment at their expense organised a brutal campaign of terror in the city and surrounding area immediately after the occupation He drove farmers from their farms and their homes recruited paramilitary gangs of the “Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz” (German Self-Defence) from the German minority and used them for the mass executions of the so-called “Intelligenzaktion” (Intelligentsia Action) and the subsequent AB-Aktion (“Extraordinary Pacification Action”) This genocidal campaign by the German occupying power was intended to break the resistance of the Polish population and to initiate the Nazis’ plans for Germanisation and resettlement Globocnik began building forced labour camps as early as 1939 Four weeks after the start of the campaign against the Soviet Union in 1941 the task of “securing the newly occupied eastern territories.” He immediately travelled to Lublin and appointed Odilo Globocnik as his “representative for the establishment of SS and police bases in the new eastern territories.” Lublin with its high proportion of Jewish inhabitants was to be the centre and was to be settled by Germans from the Reich the construction of the camp in the Lublin suburb of Majdan Tatarski which later became the Majdanek camp complex Himmler initially ordered the construction of a “concentration camp for 25,000 to 50,000 prisoners to be used for workshops and buildings for the SS and police”[1] which was officially called the “prisoner-of-war camp of the Waffen-SS.” It was not until 1943 that Majdanek was designated the “Lublin concentration and labour camp.” The intention was to create a central military supply base for the network of fortified SS and police locations and industrial enterprises planned for the east Globocnik became one of the two managing directors of Ostindustrie GmbH which operated its own SS armaments company and appropriated existing private companies Globocnik was thus entrusted with the implementation of the Generalplan Ost,” Stephan Lehnstaedt said in Berlin commissioned by Himmler and developed at the Friedrich Wilhelm University under the leadership of the agronomist and SS-Oberführer Konrad Meyer (1901-1973) was an essential basis for the Nazis’ war strategy in the east The Generalplan Ost envisaged the expulsion of the majority of the “Slavic sub-humans”—Russians Czechs and Ukrainians—from Eastern Europe and the enslavement of the remainder The plan also included the extensive extermination of Jews and 30 million deaths from starvation The Nazis originally planned to build barracks for 250,000 prisoners on a huge site covering 516 hectares but were later forced to scale down their plans Unlike the outright extermination camps such as Auschwitz II crematoria with a smaller capacity were only built relatively late at Majdanek the prisoners were exploited to the point of exhaustion as forced labourers under miserable living conditions 63,000 died—first through extermination through work and then through extermination with gas vans and in gas chambers Inmates who were unfit for work or ill were deported to the region’s specially constructed death camps the inmates of Majdanek also included 35,000 Poles as well as entire families from Belarus and Ukraine who had been deported to build SS bases Around 15,000 members of this group of prisoners were also murdered the fact that there were not even more Polish victims was also due to the courageous intervention of a Jewish mathematician from the Galician city of Lviv (Lemberg) who passed herself off as the Polish countess Janina Suchodolska and at which the Nazi leadership decided upon the extermination of European Jewry the “Aktion Reinhardt” programme was concentrated in Lublin leading to the murder of 1.8 million Polish Jews and Roma within a year The code name is associated with the Nazi response to the assassination of the head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA “Lublin was the centre of Aktion Reinhardt,” said Lehnstaedt in an interview “It is the place where the economic activities converge It is where the Jews who are still needed for forced labour and exploitation are distributed It is where the stolen goods are sorted and processed It is from there that people are transported to other camps and it is from there that everything is coordinated.” The forced labour in the workshops of Majdanek and its satellite camps Lublin-Lipowastraße Trawniki and others served to supply the Wehrmacht— for example Wehrmacht uniforms were manufactured by the company Schultz & Co. ammunition and ammunition boxes by the Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke DAW parts for Heinkel aircraft construction and weapons by Steyr Daimler Puch Aktion Reinhardt was followed by Aktion Erntefest (Action Harvest Festival) This cynical code name concealed the mass shooting of all remaining Jews in occupied Poland SS Reichsführer Himmler had personally planned and ordered it in 1943 He was reacting to the uprisings of Jewish Polish and Soviet prisoners that had broken out in the Warsaw Ghetto (April/May 1943) Bialystok Ghetto (August 1943) and the extermination camps Treblinka (August 1943) and Sobibor (October 1943) after the defeat of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad Himmler and Globocnik planned a mass murder of 43,000 Jewish inmates of the remaining labour camps Majdanek Trawniki and Poniatowa at the same time on November 3-4 To drown out the sound of the machine-gun fire and the screams of the victims the Nazi murders were mainly prosecuted by Polish-Soviet courts Immediately after the liberation of the camp set up a commission of inquiry that organised an inspection of the camp and prepared the first trial in the same year against six captured SS perpetrators A second trial against 95 SS prisoners from 1946 to 1948 ended with seven death penalties and long prison sentences the murderers of Majdanek remained virtually unchallenged the existence of the camp was long kept secret and has hardly been discussed to this day It was not until ten years after the end of the Auschwitz trial that a six-year trial began in Düsseldorf against some mostly lower-ranking members of the SS guard team the trial ended with only one life sentence for Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan and mostly with short prison sentences or acquittals The trial ended in a riot when a lawyer for one of the Nazi defendants loudly demanded that a surviving witness who had been forced by the warden to carry a container of Zyklon B be charged with aiding and abetting the murder the Federal Republic of Germany refuses to contribute financially to the Majdanek memorial in Lublin Stephan Lehnstaedt responded to a question from the Berlin audience: “A clear no.” Germany also refuses to contribute financially to other memorials And this happens with “very absurd justifications.” Cornelia Pieper (Liberal Democrat until 2013 State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry and since 2014 Consul General in Gdansk said during the construction of a new memorial in Sobibor: “The victim nations are participating the so-called Theresienstadt Declaration is being invoked “And that is a masterpiece of German diplomacy in that it states that the countries in which the memorials are located are financially responsible for them.” The German government only provides subsidies for individual projects it was focusing unilaterally on the Holocaust and on Auschwitz since this was more effective in the media The real reason is that German politics after 1945 never really broke with the Nazi traditions. The 80th anniversary commemoration of Majdanek in the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum ended a series of events on the year 1944, which included the liberation of Leningrad after the Wehrmacht’s hunger blockade, the severe crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in the Ozarichi death camp and the Maly Trostenez extermination site on the outskirts of Minsk But these crimes against humanity do not prevent German imperialism today from pursuing its geopolitical and economic goals through war and the promotion of fascist tendencies. In Ukraine, it is supporting the war against Russia with billions of euros and is working with a regime that erects monuments to Nazi collaborators and mass murderers from the Second World War such as Stepan Bandera and Roman Shushkevich Just a few days before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek by the Soviet Red Army, a decree issued by the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) was announced honouring leading generals and officers of the Nazi Wehrmacht as fostering “tradition” and “identification.” And two weeks later German-supplied tanks rolled over the border into Russia near Kursk the German government supports the Israeli army’s genocide of the Palestinians and denounces anyone who protests against it as an “anti-Semite,” including numerous Jews it receives applause from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and numerous other fascist organisations its compliant media and academic lackeys twist history to justify this criminal policy the war of extermination against the Soviet Union Hitler’s and the Nazi leadership’s “anti-Semitism” was inextricably linked to their hatred of socialism and the Soviet Union At the centre of their aggressive war propaganda was “Jewish Bolshevism,” which they held responsible for the October Revolution of 1917 and the defeat of German imperialism in the First World War the ‘right’ war was always the one against the Soviet Union because for him the fate of Germany depended on the conquest of living space (Lebensraum) and the solution of the ‘Jewish question.’ Both depended on the destruction of the Soviet Union the war against ‘Jewish Bolshevism’ and for Lebensraum was comprehensive and of a piece.”[3] This is also the deeper reason for the almost complete annihilation of Polish Jews Before the Nazi invasion on 1 September 1939 the socialist and anti-Zionist General Labour Union—“The Bund”—was the strongest Jewish party in Poland The Communist Party also had a large following among Jews [1] Tomasz Kranz: “The Lublin Concentration Camp – Between Planning and Realisation.” In: Ulrich Herbert Christoph Dieckmann: The Nazi Concentration Camps Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade Poland  — On a quiet corner of Furmańska Street dawn breaks to the warm smell of bread wafting from the oldest bakery in Lublin announced by a sign: “Kuźmiuk Bakery since 1944.” But another bakery was there before 1944, when Furmańska Street belonged to a historic Jewish quarter of this Polish city. Before the Kuźmiuk Bakery opened that year and before the Nazis killed 99% of Lublin’s Jews the best bakery in town served rye bread and onion rolls from within the same walls It was run by Mordka and Doba Bajtel and their children a Jewish family entirely erased from the city The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade The bakery’s postwar history is threaded throughout its operations inherited recipes and techniques from her father Sergiusz Kuźmiuk and his father Włodzimierz Kuźmiuk dates only to the 1980s.) Brochures inside the store tell how Włodzimierz Kuźmiuk and his young family escaped the destruction of World War II across Poland finally settling in an empty bakery in Lublin his first batch of bread fed Lubliners for their first Christmas after the city’s liberation from Nazi Germany But her father and grandfather never told Golawski about what came before She knew nothing of the store’s Jewish history until July 2017 when a woman walked into Kuźmiuk Bakery and introduced herself and she had traveled from her home in Florida to see the bakery once owned by her great-uncle Mordka and great-aunt Doba The visit shook Golawski, who still maintains the family business with help from her husband Artur Golawski and daughter Natalia. Minars pointed out where the Bajtels lived in an apartment behind the bakery — today, it’s the home of the Golawski family. Records from the Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center a Lublin institution focused on the city’s Jewish history confirm that Mordka Bajtel owned a bakery in the building that is now the Kuźmiuk Bakery “It made an impact on us,” Goławski told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency once called pletzel by Lublin’s Yiddish-speaking Jews Minars’ mother, Eva Eisenkeit, was a native Lubliner who loved the city and fondly remembered the bakery run by her aunt and uncle. She was 20 at the start of World War II. In March 1942, she escaped the Lublin ghetto two days before the Nazis began its “liquidation” — an operation to kill all the Jews mostly through extermination camps and mass executions Eisenkeit spent 22 months hiding in an underground hole beneath a pigsty in the nearby village of Dys she was the only member of her family alive “My mother survived by herself,” Minars said to JTA “She came from a home [where] there were eight children My mother didn’t even have a first cousin or second or third cousin survive Minars had a clear picture of the bakery in her mind. While she visited Lublin she was also completing her mother’s memoir, “A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream,” based on 14 years of testimonial interviews Bakeries were embedded in the rich tapestry of Jewish food and culture. Lublin’s many Jewish bakeries sold rye bread (then known as “Jewish bread”) and pumpernickel (or “German bread”) along with challah, rugelach and pletzel, an onion flatbread originating from Lublin-area Jews in the 19th century But the most famous bakery was the Bajtels’ “People stood in line outside waiting their turn to get into the bakery,” Eisenkeit recalled in her memoir “Wholesalers and store owners from the surrounding towns and villages came to Lublin to buy baked goods from the Bajtel bakery.” Mordka Bajtel was a religious man who spent a great deal of his bakery’s profits on local Jewish institutions He was particularly inspired by the Lublin Yeshiva pillows and bedding in the school’s dormitories he donated challah to the yeshiva and the Jewish Hospital And he never failed to bake challah for Lublin’s Bialer Hasidic rabbi which he personally delivered before Shabbat was a vibrant center of Jewish life before the Holocaust The Germans shut down nearly all of Lublin’s bakeries in 1939 Bajtel and his sons were forced to bake bread exclusively for the Germans until November 1942 when they were finally rounded up and killed at the Majdanek concentration camp Doba Bajtel was shot with her daughters-in-law and grandchildren in the Krepiecki Forest intending to claim the bakery as its only surviving heir But the Polish government had already granted the building to Włodzimierz Kuźmiuk Poland was quick to redistribute the property of dead Jews after the Holocaust using decrees that nationalized private property under the post-war Soviet regime but she would have to wait for months or a year while her documentation was processed She did not want to stay in the hometown where her family neighbors and all Jewish life had vanished Other survivors who returned to their homes were threatened or killed by Poles who had moved in she decided to visit the bakery’s new owner 70 years before her daughter’s trip from Florida Eisenkeit walked into the bakery and met Kuźmiuk He told her that he waited for a surviving heir he took ownership of the building just one day earlier she ran into a former Jewish neighbor from Lublin moving to Israel and later the United States includes memories of her family’s Lublin bakery which since 1944 has run under new ownership as the Kuźmiuk Bakery The Kuźmiuk Bakery’s bestseller today is known in Polish as cebularz once called pletzel by Lublin’s Yiddish-speaking Jews: a round flatbread topped with diced onions and poppy seeds the pastry was widely known as a Jewish specialty But after the Nazis killed 90% of Poland’s Jews the country was left with fragments of Jewish heritage — like an onion flatbread — without the Jews Polish children who grew up eating cebularz from Jewish bakeries still wanted cebularz when they grew up “If you used to eat something from childhood it’s quite normal for you to still eat it,” said Golawski She is currently working on printing a Hebrew-language brochure dedicated to the history of cebularz and its origins in Lublin’s Jewish community could not name a traditional Jewish bakery like the Bajtels’ today “There are no Jewish bakers in Poland,” said Nazaruk we have maybe 20,000 Jews in the entire country usually disconnected from Jewishness to some degree So there are no Jewish businesses rising from the past.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy The floor is yours!”: in the second half of the 1970’s Lea Lublin opened to all the possibility to speak freely about the nature of art Hélène Gheysens recontextualizes this project – but also Lublin’s career – within a wider social up and to a new ethical way of creating art The public space therefore the forum where an individual can assert himself within society Psycho-Politics Of Public Space: The Investigations Of Lea Lublin (1929-1999) Hélène Gheysens In Interrogations et Entretiens sur l’art Lea Lublin calls out to her audience: “Take the floor Lea Lublin’s call is conveyed in several works that This is one of the artist’s leitmotifs in order to think a non-authoritarian social articulation that affects both the intimate (the psychoanalytical dimension) and the collective (the political dimension) future of the individual These questions are deployed in the public space which is conceived as a physical space (to circulate in) and a mental space (to communicate in) Lea Lublin’s consciousness of circulation spaces comes from the Surrealist heritage passed on to her by her teacher at the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts Lea Lublin shares his interest in representing the city she adds to it a new way of thinking about communication A drawing dated 1956 shows a tree in the process of merging with the edges of buildings echoing the lines of antennas and electric wires anticipating the artist’s interest in the fusion of the biological and the media At a time when the brain’s electrical activity was being uncovered the lamp in the corner seems to be a metaphor for human consciousness The question of awareness under influence is present in the many drawings that Lea Lublin dedicated to representing crowds between 1957 and 1958 Lea Lublin continues her surrealist experiments in the spirit of the neo-dada artists incorporating everyday objects into her work For the Cara o Seca (Heads or Tails) exhibition she created 3D “paintings-installations” that appropriated semiotic elements of urban space as well as household objects: not without humour The artist presents chaotic compositions that echo shopping streets during rush-hour Lea Lublin alerts of the risk of personalities being destroyed by an aggressive capitalist environment In the context of the development of behaviourist theories she creates “warning-works” designed to awaken the viewers which uses pop media in a political and social perspective following Luis Camnitzer’s theorisation of “ideological conceptual art” this practice can be seen as part of pop art the media or popular works (including vernacular ones) while its output makes extensive use of industrial materials aware of the power of images to shape identity and social relations and fully ingrained within a Marxist tradition claims the critical consciousness previously carried by Mexican muralists It asserts the revolutionary power of artworks Lea Lublin’s subsequent projects occupy the public space in a bid to raise people’s awareness the artist proposes Opération Commando Télécommandée de Communication (OCTC) in a more direct attempt to fight the autocratic situation in Argentina she seeks to transform collective action from “mass” art into “community” art through experiments such as Fluvio Subtunal and Flor de Ducha lies at the boundary between the material and the immaterial the intellectual public space constituted by culture was recognised as a place for debate and confrontation Lea Lublin embraces this idea which was supported by the Cuban cultural revolution Several articles published during her visit to Cuba in 1966 express her enthusiasm for the revolution underway She does not see art as propaganda for a particular regime but as a true heir to the idea of the avant-garde the artist carries a social responsibility Nicolas Guillén and Lea Lublin in Buenos Aires This point of view is shared with two close friends is an essential reference to understand the merging of culture and identity Encouraged by his encounters with Federico García Lorca and Langston Hughes his literary experiments buttress his social convictions or a precursor of the Black Arts Movement developed in the United States in the 1960’s Although the precise circumstances of his meeting with Lea Lublin are unknown its importance for both of them is undeniable Their intense exchanges between 1955 and 1959 then still as close but more episodic until the 1980s The second revolutionary figure close to Lea Lublin is Rafael San Martin a fighter and writer whom she meets the same year that Ernesto Guevara landed in Cuba with Fidel Castro Rafael San Martin’s parents were related to the Che’s and he himself joined Fidel Castro’s column in the Sierra Maestra He plays a key role in the spreading of the revolution His international political obligations gradually distance him from Lea Lublin from the late 1970’s onwards share each other’s lives for brief moments of time Lea Lublin pays particular attention to theories that place communication at the heart of interactions between the individual and society social sciences studying these relationships are developing: psychology These disciplines take as a fundamental precept the porosity of identity and raise the question of how the individual mediates with his or her environment Lea Lublin represents these various modes of mediation before experimenting with them As early as the series Incitation au massacre she endorses the Arte de los Medios de Comunicación Masivos manifesto according to which “the only thing that counts is the image of the artistic event reconstructed by the mass media” Blanco sobre Blanco (White on White) illustrates this This work depicts a couple engaged in sexual practice at the Pan-American Engineering Exhibition of 1970 Against a backdrop of heightened morality in Argentina the eroticism of the depiction leads to the work being deemed subversive by the authorities and censored almost immediately with the artist being taken to court for “obscenity” Following her official conviction in Argentina Lea Lublin presents a new work quoting Blanco sobre Blanco at the Comparaison salon in Paris It is entitled Lecture d’une œuvre de Lea Lublin par un inspecteur de police (A Police Inspector Analysing A Work By Lea Lublin) The work features photographs and archival documents recounting this episode of censorship in the context of proto-dictatorial Argentina It explores the different ways in which a work can be received in two distinct geographical spaces and seeks to make the limits of free speech in Argentina perceptible to European viewers the artist puts forward a reflection on the role of the media in the face of power a work supposedly meant to disappear can find lasting visibility in the press Reading of a work by Lea Lublin by a police detective The artist also turned her interviews into manifestos she publishes an article entitled “La peur de se libérer des béquilles mentales” (The Fear Of Freeing Oneself From Mental Crutches) in which she explains her research into movement and the multiplicity of points of view she frequently accompanies her works with texts published in the press This is particularly true of Culture – Dedans/Dehors le Musée (Culture Inside / Outside The Museum) a paradigm of her revolutionary and media-oriented thinking Lea Lublin writes in the preface to this work: “We attempt to show all the mechanisms hidden by the capitalist system in order to bring about a total awareness that would open the way to a truly revolutionary culture” As an extension of Culture Inside/Outside The Museum Lea Lublin is attempting to bridge spaces of circulation with spaces of communication in order to propose new modes of interaction This is done under the influence of cybernetics which combine individual and social psychology a true “architect of information “ Using cybernetics adapted to social sciences the artist finds a way of involving spectators in line with her social concerns With an aim towards collective emancipation Lea Lublin sets up ‘systems’ in which the relationship between the individual and society is no longer one of domination She creates environments that serve as new settings in which the individual can define his or her identity she follows in the footsteps of the latest discoveries in psychiatric theory in particular behaviourism in considering that identities could shift or be provisional which emerged from Culture – Dedans / Dehors le musée epitomizes her desire to articulate physical and mental space in her works of art Lea Lublin develops them mainly in Europe between 1974 and 1979 Interrogations is an artistic syntax being staged within an environment A banner repeating an anaphora (L’art est-il The latter is of particular interest to us the artist chooses to hang the banner on a lamppost She also carries out a test on the Cathedral before hanging it on the emblematic statue of the painter Pierre-Paul Rubens on the Groenplaats Lea Lublin hung her Interrogations as a critique of the representation of the ideological and political power of Western art long before statues were attacked (as was the case in Fort de France in 2020 with the statue of Joséphine de Beauharnais and Pierre Belain d’Esnambuc) She photographs her hand pointing to the two words on the banner: “ideologische” and “politische” she does so in a way that avoids replacing one ideology with another by putting forward an open and playful intervention The photographs that have survived show a banner that dances in the wind around the statue sometimes covering it completely but then quickly disappearing initially on the statue of Jean-Baptiste Vico a Neapolitan autodidact sometimes identified as a precursor of Hegel an emblematic author of Renaissance humanism These critical interrogations of the universality of ‘icons’ of European intellectual culture echo her sacralisation of a monument to Carlos Gardel Argentinian tango legend and “true soul” of Latin America The Interrogations banner is part of a system designed to encourage audience participation in order to give participants some feedback but also to share within the installation these multiple opinions or “explanatory posters” bringing together photographs and transcriptions Lea Lublin seeks to extricate herself from the determination of discourse by presenting a seemingly incoherent list of questions the purpose of which is to prohibit any pre-established answers and thus to encourage personal statements and introspection which she herself characterised as a “trap” inviting us to restlessly question art and society Her desire for a parallel activation of physical and mental space continues later in her exhibition practice and her presence in the press as part of the television show Cercle de Minuit a series of cibachromes from Lea Lublin’s investigation of Marcel Duchamp’s footsteps in Buenos Aires These pieces had previously been shown in two exhibitions curated by the artist in 1991 via a relatively mainstream media program and in the context of a discursive definition of culture demonstrates the artist’s ability to assert the importance of art in the psycho-political definition of public space Conceptualism in Latin American art: Didactics of Liberation and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture » art et conditionnement psychologique XIXe-XXIe siècles » « Nicolas Guillén in the 1980s : A Guide to Recent Scolarship » in Latin American Research Review Lublin L., « El Miedo a liberarse de los andadores mentales » in TESTIGO, Revista de Literatura y Arte, Enero, Febrero, Marzo 1966, Buenos Aires, Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas (www.ahira.com.ar exhibition held from the 28th of October 2015 to the 28th March 2016 at the Centre Pompidou Metz Lea Lublin – Retrospective: [anlässlich der Ausstellung Lea Lublin – Retrospective Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Hélène Gheysens holds a PhD in contemporary art history from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne was supervised by Pascal Rousseau and defended in 2023 Arte será vida at the Galerie Michel Journiac in Paris and co-edited the book Amis 120 ans avec le Musée national d’art moderne she was co-curator at the the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art of the exhibition AntipsychiARTrie relations entre art et antipsychiatrie depuis 1960 She is the founder of the Mission Recherche des Amis du Centre Pompidou a program dedicated to researchers wishing to work with the collections of the the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou She has contributed to various archival tools She is also president of Fun Tech Adventures Poland: Brutal Police Raid on the Dominican Monastery in Lublin Unprecedented police raid in the Dominican convent in Lublin sparks outrage and raises questions about legality and respect for religious rights in Poland It seemed like a scene from a police movie with agents storming a hideout of criminals: six hooded police officers entering the building drones flying in the air; the police searching the rooms and photographing the interiors: the operation lasted two hours under orders from the National Prosecutor’s Office officers stormed the historic Dominican friary violating and desecrating the monks’ cells not a country that proclaims itself democratic like the Republic of Poland governed by Tusk the objective of this shameful action was to search for Deputy Marcin Romanowski Romanowski being sought in the Lublin friary The search provided for by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Article 219 of the Penal Code) presupposes reasonable suspicion of the presence of a suspect in a given place pro-government media openly reported that the deputy was abroad: there was talk of Spain or Hungary an action purely demonstrative and repressive in nature This brutal and unprecedented raid on the Dominican Monastery of Saint Stanislaus in Lublin has caused great indignation in various sectors of Polish society According to the Association of Lawyers for Poland not only have national laws been violated: the government has breached Article 8 paragraph 3 of the Concordat between the Holy See and the Republic of Poland “This document,” the lawyers write “clearly guarantees the inviolability of places of worship and any activity in such places is possible only with the consent of ecclesiastical authorities or in exceptional situations where life or property are at risk.” “Whose life whose health was at risk in this grotesque operation?” they ask rhetorically The Lawyers for Poland have no doubt about the motivations of the authorities of the current government: “The purpose of this action was not to enforce the law or justice but to humiliate the clergy and write another chapter in the political war against the Catholic Church which has long obsessively denounced Catholic influence in Poland has decided to take another step and launch a symbolic attack on one of the bastions of spirituality.” Could it be any clearer “Each new case of law violation distances us from the group of civilized countries and leads Poland towards the abyss of authoritarianism We demand the immediate punishment of those responsible and the restoration of respect for the law and ethical standards in state actions,” the lawyers insist The Dominicans themselves have also reacted to the shameful police action in a letter addressed to Father Dariusz Wilk CSMA President of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders in Poland wrote: “The case is surprising because none of the brothers in the Lublin friary know Mr Romanowski has no contact with the Lublin friary where he had been granted political asylum What is shocking is the fact that the brothers were suspected of hiding a man wanted with an arrest warrant.” In this unfortunate situation the Dominicans have decided to file a complaint with the National Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the actions taken we will submit a request to access the records regarding the reasons why it was suspected that Mr Romanowski was hiding in the Lublin friary,” the friars declare governed by politicians supported by the Brussels oligarchies by politicians who wanted to restore the rule of law and continuously violate the Constitution and the laws “the raid on the Lublin friary was carried out under the aegis of the National Prosecutor’s Office which since January 2024 has been taken over by politician Adam Bodnar and his puppet prosecutors they have brought the institution into a state of chaos and anarchy It is not without reason that the rulings of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Tribunal highlight devastating violations in the functioning of this institution.” So the question arises: why do the supposed defenders of legality and justice in Brussels not react who attacked the Poland of the previous conservative government and deprived the country of European funds Wlodzimierz Redzioch è nato a Czestochowa (Polonia) si è laureato in Ingegneria nel Politecnico Dopo aver continuato gli studi nell’Università di Varsavia nel 1980 ha lavorato presso il Centro per i pellegrini polacchi a Roma Dal 1981 al 2012 ha lavorato presso L’Osservatore romano Dal 1995 collabora con il settimanale cattolico polacco Niedziela come corrispondente dal Vaticano e dall’Italia Per la sua attività di vaticanista il 23 settembre 2000 ha ricevuto in Polonia il premio cattolico per il giornalismo «Mater Verbi»; mentre il 14 luglio 2006 Sua Santità Benedetto XVI gli ha conferito il titolo di commendatore dell’Ordine di San Silvestro papa ha scritto diversi volumi sul Vaticano e guide ai due principali santuari mariani: Lourdes e Fatima Promotore in Polonia del pellegrinaggio a Santiago de Compostela In occasione della canonizzazione di Giovanni Paolo II ha pubblicato il libro “Accanto a Giovanni Paolo II Gli amici e i collaboratori raccontano” (Edizioni Ares compresa la testimonianza d’eccezione di Papa emerito Benedetto XVI per commemorare il 40mo anniversario dell’assassinio di don Jerzy Popiełuszko ha pubblicato la sua biografia “Jerzy Popiełuszko Martire del comunismo” (Edizioni Ares Milano 2024) Reflection by Bishop Enrique Díaz: I will praise you Paris Marks 400th Anniversary of the Congregation of the Mission Reflection by Bishop Enrique Díaz: The Lord’s mercy is eternal Tweets by Pontifex The Holy See's commitment to resolving conflicts—whether in Ukraine advancing human rights and religious freedom opposing the "throwaway culture"; supporting migrants; and advocating healthcare access is unwavering and promotes fraternity and multilateralism Described as a "field hospital amid a battle," the Holy See is a vital player in global conversations about the challenges facing the international community exerting "soft power" that often secures results even major global powers struggle to achieve alone the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations described the vocation and tools of Vatican diplomacy which currently maintains relations with 184 countries and is deeply engaged with global governance institutions His presentation at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) titled "The Diplomacy of the Holy See in the contemporary world," was part of a conference organized by the University's Center for Diplomacy Studies Gallagher outlined the current state of the Holy See's diplomatic mission beginning with a historical perspective and emphasizing decades of bridge-building humble approach that has proven effective in untangling seemingly insurmountable conflicts and fostering signs of goodwill among warring parties this "diplomacy of mercy" embodies a genuine political commitment to solidarity and the common good—not as an abstract goal but through tangible actions like cancelling foreign debt advancing cooperation and development policies even in the face of severe injustices such as the death penalty Gallagher elaborated on the structures and key figures of Vatican diplomacy the Pope's presence in diverse cultural and religious settings who represent the Holy See locally where diplomatic relations have not been formalized The Secretariat of State guides this "vast and well-defined" network "the very first diplomat is the Pope himself." The pontificate of John Paul II and "questions concerning Eastern Europe" amply demonstrated this "we can see the impact that Pope Francis has on the international stage." To him "the world turns," and "it is his words and actions that inspire and animate the diplomatic activity of the Holy See," the Vatican representative pointed out "the Pope is tirelessly exercising his moral authority," confronting injustices and warning against harmful practices that jeopardize our world and future Gallagher's address also focused on the Vatican's quiet behind-the-scenes efforts in conflict resolution the Holy See "intervenes to support an idea of peace that is the f "uit of just relationships and the protection of fundamental human rights." The Holy See also works on humanitarian grounds to support the social renewal of often forgotten regions facilitate family reunification for minors and enable prisoner exchanges and the return of fallen soldiers between Russia and Ukraine "the principle of humanity" must never be "compromised in the name of military needs," mainly when civilian lives are at stake This commitment underpins its active engagement in disarmament discussions Gallagher also highlighted the Holy See's commitment to human rights including "the right to life and the inviolability of every person as children of God" and the defense of "the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death" By defending "these rights the Holy See upholds a moral "standard and sparks crucial global debates He voiced concern over countries or coalitions imposing views on human rights and dignity that diverge from Church teachings sometimes conditioning humanitarian and development aid on a country's willingness to adopt these ideologies Gallagher also underscored the Vatican's "commitment to universal healthcare albeit without embracing certain contentious" concepts that have evolved into a global ideological agenda such as the so-called "right to abortion." Religious freedom was another central theme with Gallagher reflecting on Pope John Paul II's legacy and reiterating the need to resist the instrumentalization of religion for political disputes The Holy See consistently emphasizes "the public dimension of religious freedom while respecting the legitimate autonomy of the secularity of the State." It fosters a healthy dialogue between the state and religious communities as partners Gallagher listed other crucial areas for Vatican diplomacy opposing the "throwaway culture" that devalues human dignity by assessing "people only by their utility the impact of technological progress and globalization on the workforce and concerns "about artificial intelligence's ethical implications he reiterated the Holy See's commitment to pursuing solutions for a crisis affecting nearly 120 million people displaced by persecution He stressed the importance of just economic policies and efforts to "eradicate poverty aiming to promote human fraternity as an antidote to the "globalization of indifference." The Holy See is also deeply committed to eradicating human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery "Pope Francis is universally recognized as one of the leading moral voices in the fight against human trafficking," Gallagher said noting the Pope's ongoing calls for justice for people "deceived often sold many times for different purposes and physically and mentally harmed." To combat this "toxic scourge," the Holy See urges governments to address the underlying causes against the backdrop of a world that the Pope has called "the third world war fought piecemeal," the Holy See's diplomatic mission remains unified in its commitment to "be a sign of hope." In this way Vatican diplomacy "serves the common good" and acts as a voice affirming a shared yearning for stability Gallagher also elaborated on the Holy See's bilateral diplomacy with various nations through concordats and agreements to defend the locaSee'srches from any undue interference of the State in ecclesial matters to engage with States on issues of common interest in order to ensure effective cooperation within the social and religious spheres." He cited the Provisional Agreement with China on bishop appointments and similar arrangements with countries where formal diplomatic relations are still developing Since becoming a permanent observer at the FAO in 1949 the Holy See has steadily intensified its engagement with the international community by contributing to numerous international organizations This engagement allows the Holy See to "act primarily as a force of ethical leadership" with "independence from political alliances and blocs," fostering cooperation and dialogue the Holy See can serve as "a trustworthy mediator which is paramount in addressing conflicts and fostering dialogue on global issues," building bridges where others may see only insurmountable divisions Panattoni has obtained a loan from Alior Bank to support the expansion of its latest investment in the Lublin Voivodeship The €14 million will be allocated to developing an 11,190 sqm build-to-suit (BTS) facility for one of the leading logistics operators - Lublin and its surroundings are among the fastest-growing regions in the country and play a key role in the development of logistics and industry in Eastern Poland Panattoni has already delivered over 272,000 sqm of modern industrial space in the area – more than half the total market volume The financing from Alior Bank enables us to pursue yet another investment – a state-of-the-art cross-docking terminal tailored to the needs of our long-standing business partner will be built within Panattoni Park Lublin IV located in the Economic Activity Zone in Świdnik is a high-quality modern warehouse complex currently consisting of two buildings with a total area of 53,000 sqm Its tenants include companies from the automotive A further 13,000 sqm of warehouse space remains available for lease offers access to a well-developed transport infrastructure Its proximity to the Lublin-Zadębie junction and easy access to expressways S12 and S19 – which is part of the international Via Carpatia route – make Panattoni Park Lublin IV an attractive operational base for logistics and manufacturing companies Pope Francis maintained several notable connections with the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) including outreach to inmates at the Lublin Remand Center His relationship with the university also included correspondence with the Rector and shared initiatives “We all make mistakes in life; God never tires of forgiving,” Pope Francis emphasized in a letter to the students of KUL Center for Studies for Inmates at the Lublin Remand Centre The letter from the Vatican was sent to the Rector of KUL on the occasion of the academic year’s inauguration at the Center for Studies in the Lublin facility The ceremony also marked ten years of the university’s educational program for prisoners the Holy Father extended his blessing to the inmates and their response reached the Bishop of Rome Another example of the Pope’s interest in and respect for KUL was his congratulatory message to Rabbi Prof who received an honorary doctorate from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin “When I wrote to him that I was coming to Poland to receive the honorary doctorate from KUL brothers—we refer to each other in our emails as ‘Dear Brother.’ When I informed Francis of this ceremony and the award from KUL he congratulated me warmly,” Rabbi Skórka shared with KUL’s academic media during the event Pope Francis also took note of the publication of the book They Even Killed the Children (Zabili nawet dzieci) by Manuela Tulli and Fr a project developed in collaboration with the university Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra wrote a letter on behalf of the Pope expressing the hope that the Ulma family’s sacrifice would become a symbol of values that must never be betrayed—even under the threat of death University staff had numerous opportunities to meet Pope Francis not only during official audiences but also through more personal encounters at the Casa Santa Marta the teachings and thought of Pope Francis became the subject of academic research at KUL Scholars focused on his encyclical Laudato si’ and his apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum in which the Pope observes that humanity is not responding adequately to the harmful changes affecting the climate They are used to store personal preferences The user can independently change the cookie settings in their browser If you agree to storing the data contained in cookie files close this window (click Close (x) button) SYNTH ANATOMY uses affiliation & partner programs (big red buttons) to finance a part of the activity Xaoc Devices Lublin is a new dual pingable analog VCA module for Eurorack that has three unique ping responses ” You can never have enough VCAs.” That’s true VCAs offer many interesting patch possibilities and can be used with audio and CV signals Xaoc Devices from Poland now has a new dual VCA in its growing portfolio It mainly specializes in sounds with natural dynamics dual pingable analog VCA module with unique features unavailable in classic VCAs.  The circuit focuses on low noise and has a DC-coupled signal path A dedicated exponential response input makes it more flexible and they have three different flavors of ping responses giving you different natural responses: shortened It’s important to know that Xaoc Devices Lublin does not have built-in traditional vactrols These characteristics make harmonically rich and thick percussive sounds with natural dynamics possible the module hosts a gain control circuit that lets you push the audio hard without unnecessary distortion.  An exciting new dual VCA from Xaoc Devices One that can set itself apart from the traditional ones and is especially worth a look for people who want to generate more natural sounds Xaoc Devices Lublin is available now for $189/169€ More information here: Xaoc Devices  Perfect Circuit  Eurorack News hardware programmer for the Roland MKS-7 and Juno-106 synthesizers new Hainbach test equipment tone generator and audio mangler plugin The colorful Dreadbox Eudemonia is a dual analog filter, mixer, and VCA in one and reduces the patch paths with its clever design. 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Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match The current head to head record for the teams are Widzew Łódź 1 win(s) Sebastian Kerk has created the most big chances for Widzew Łódź (8) Hubert Sobol has the most shots on target per match for Widzew Łódź (0.8) Have scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches Haven't kept a clean sheet in 5 matches Kacper Rosa is ranked 1 in saves per match in the competition (4.2) 19 Apr 2025 15:30:00 GMT?Motor Lublin won 2–1 over Widzew Łódź on Sat 19 Apr 2025 15:30:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 6 goals in their last 5 matches Widzew Łódź is playing home against Motor Lublin at Stadion Miejski Widzewa Łódź on Sat Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin celebrating its 80th anniversary brought together all ATHENA European University partners This significant occasion featured the official launch of a new phase for the ATHENA consortium symbolizing renewed commitment to collaboration and further advancing partnerships in education and research consisting of rectors from all partner universities convened to discuss the future of the consortium Key topics included the formalization of new governance principles and the renewal of task forces (action groups) responsible for driving strategic initiatives forward all rectors signed a new ATHENA Consortium agreement further reinforcing the consortium’s dedication to offering high-quality The agreement is designed to ensure that ATHENA’s goals align with European needs enabling students and staff to benefit from enhanced educational opportunities The event also saw a major leadership transition as the University of Maribor officially assumed the presidency of ATHENA Rector Zdravko Kačič now holds the responsibility of leading the consortium into its next phase of development our focus is firmly on strengthening our partners’ commitment to consolidate actions in key areas of research and deepen inter-institutional collaboration in education We are continuing to enhance ATHENA’s thematic clusters The newly established governance principles will guide our transition toward a leaner enabling us to adapt and grow as we move forward." Discussions on ATHENA’s activity plan for the coming year setting the course for future actions were in the center of the gathering The renewed task forces will play a crucial role in ensuring that ATHENA continues to offer cutting-edge research and inclusive educational opportunities to students across Europe its mission remains clear: to deliver high-quality international education that addresses the most pressing needs of today’s globalized ATHENA is well-positioned to continue making significant strides in shaping the future of European higher education Stay tuned for further updates on ATHENA’s exciting future initiatives View specialisms glossary Home » News » Buro Happold opens a new office in Lublin Our Polish team boasts more than 160 skilled engineers and consultants dedicated to delivering the highest quality services for sustainable solutions in the built environment The new Lublin office will play a crucial role in the current and future projects enhancing our development potential and enabling us to serve our clients better across Poland and beyond Our new office in Lublin is a part of our global growth strategy – it also plays an important role from the local point of view we would like to bring opportunities for talented people living here to work on international projects We are building strong relationships with the Technical University to influence the education of students by presenting innovative engineering solutions Buro Happold is currently hiring for multiple roles We offer exciting opportunities to work on international projects collaborate with industry experts and contribute to groundbreaking developments we have built an unrivalled reputation by delivering creative value-led solutions for the benefit of people The page you require is currently not available, please contact one of our specialists on this page for more information. 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Worldwide With a Golden Globe already pocketed, Jesse Eisenberg’s beautifully bittersweet and sharply funny comedy-drama A Real Pain is on an inspiring journey from Sundance breakout to Academy Awards favourite.  and old family tensions are never too far away as the pair make their way across the country heading ultimately for their late grandmother’s old hometown and a poignant tribute Polish composer Frederic Chopin provides the road-trip playlist of 19th century bangers.  Making the film was a case of life imitating art imitating life with cast and crew travelling across Poland to film at all locations featured in the story From Warsaw to the medieval town of Lublin in the country’s southeast A Real Pain takes audiences on a journey of Poland’s past and present filtered through the prism of the Jewish experience Eisenberg was given permission to film in a former concentration camp – Majdanek on the outskirts of Lublin – for the film’s unsentimental but deeply moving centerpiece Yes, barring two bookending scenes at a New York airport, the entire movie was filmed in the country. Eisenberg took inspiration from films like Y Tu Mamá También to ‘create a road movie that’s also beautiful that shows Poland in a really beautiful light but mixes the kind of elements of horror and history’ Here’s where to go to follow in Benji and David’s footsteps The group’s tour begins at Warsaw’s memorial to the Jewish fighters who rose up against the Nazis in 1943 Tour guide James describes it as ‘a monument that celebrates the Jewish heroes that fought back against the Nazis’ contextualising its place in the group’s itinerary ahead of a visit to Majdanek concentration camp ‘I think it’s important to dispel the myth that these were people who were led like lambs to the slaughter,’ he explains Designed by Polish-Jewish sculptor Nathan Rapoport the 11-metre-tall statue was unveiled in 1948 it was made from materials originally earmarked for Nazi monuments.  📍 More info taking in the tree-lined Grzybów Square (or ‘Plac Grzybowski’) it was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto.  The group’s tour takes in Warsaw’s Krasiński Square and this massive monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis Benji soon has fellow tourists Marcia (Jennifer Grey) Diane (Liza Sadovy) and Mark (Daniel Oreskes) posing as resistance fighters on the memorial – even coaxing the reluctant James to join in. The bronze artwork commemorates the resistance fighters who took on the Nazis over 63 days in the summer of 1944 Head across town to the Warsaw Rising Museum to get the full story of those heroic deeds.  📍 More info David and Benji catch up with their fellow travellers for the Lublin leg of their tour James leads the group on a walk of the city’s Jewish past introducing them to Lublin’s medieval castle and this gateway to the town’s old Jewish quarter.  📍 More info A tense exchange between Benji and James takes place in the ancient Old Jewish Cemetery on a Lublin hillside As James places the burial ground in its historical context Benji asks his chastened tour guide to ease up on the ‘factoids’ James suggests following the Jewish tradition of leaving a stone on the ‘matzevah’ of Talmudist Jakub Kopelman 📍 More info Eisenberg’s idea of filming within the sombre surrounds of a concentration camp initially met with discouragement reverential treatment of the location saw permission granted and it shows Majdanek the way it is now,”’ he explains ’[The scene] takes place in Majdanek which no Holocaust movie does because no one knows about it But mine is set there because that’s where my family is from.’ people were just very quiet,’ remembers Culkin of the shoot All of the practicalities of filmmaking – lighting etc – were conducted with ‘the utmost reverence and sanctity for what we were doing,’ recalls Eisenberg.  For visitors aged 14 and over, the State Museum at Majdanek offers two-and-a-half-hour tours of the camp.📍 More info  Frederic Chopin’s houseIt’s not a physical location in the film and doesn’t feature on David and Benji’s tour but the home of Poland’s greatest composer was a key influence Eisenberg had visited Chopin’s house on a trip to Poland and he returned to the musician’s work to provide the film’s score ‘It gives the movie this sophisticated “removed​” tone that I just found very helpful,’ he says ‘When we started editing the movie and were putting these Chopin pieces in the places that they belonged the editor and I just turned to each other and said “This is the tone of the movie.”’ 📍 More info Photography courtesy of the Polish National Tourist Office A Real Pain is in UK and Ireland cinemas Jan 8. 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Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! tiktokfacebooktwitteryoutubeAbout us Contact us The current head to head record for the teams are Motor Lublin 1 win(s) Samuel Mraz has the most shots on target per match for Motor Lublin (1.5) Have scored 10 goals in their last 5 matches Joel Pereira has created the most big chances for Lech Poznan (9) 13 Apr 2025 15:30:00 GMT?Lech Poznan won 2–1 over Motor Lublin on Sun 13 Apr 2025 15:30:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 9 goals in their last 5 matches Motor Lublin is playing home against Lech Poznan at Motor Lublin Arena on Sun embrace the charm of lesser-known destinations Last year was surely the year of the city break big hitter We had one of the all-time great Olympic Games in Paris and Taylor Swift’s Eras tour saw millions of Swifties boosting international economies one capital city at a time savvy travellers are turning away from crowded capitals in favour of lesser-known cities — places that still offer the thrill of discovery far from the cruise ship hordes And with the flexibility of the new Trading 212 card exploring these spots has never been easier or more rewarding From an under-the-radar gem in Georgia to a culture-packed Bulgarian beauty we round up five surprisingly wonderful city break destinations for your 2025 travel calendar Lublin is Eastern Europe’s best kept secret but it’s unlikely to stay that way for long charming city is less than two hours from Warsaw on the train and it’s got it all: a colourful cobblestoned Old Town colossally grand and extremely well-priced hotels a burgeoning art scene that includes the vast multi-disciplinary modernist gallery CSK (Centrum Spotkania Kultur) and hometown breweries producing brilliant beer while it still has that authentic locals-only feel to it where beautiful antebellum mansions line brick-paved streets and the house’s historic ties stretch back to the Revolutionary War of 1779 It’s a culture-packed place with an art gallery designed by Moshe Safdie and its own jazz hall of fame The food is hearty in the best southern-style: head to Mrs Wilkes Dining Room for crispy fried chicken there’s a touch of the gothic here too: trails of Spanish moss hang from the city’s many oak trees giving the place a fantastical fairytale feel Away from the clamour and crowds of Copenhagen Denmark’s understated second city is quietly emerging as a big player in its own right You could come simply for the spectacular modernist museums: the grass-roofed marvel that is the Moesgaard museum of archaeology and anthropology seems to emerge from the earth and the ARoS art museum houses works from the Danish Golden Age in an incredible building by Henning Larsen architects But the food is just as big a draw: a sprawling street food market sells everything from bao buns to Danish comfort food and the city boasts four Michelin-starred restaurants Bulgaria’s second city stakes a claim to be Europe’s oldest continually inhabited urban space and remnants of its epic history are everywhere – from its astonishing Roman amphitheatre to its handsome 19th-century mansion houses The old town is a winding warren of charming streets with gorgeously well preserved Ottoman-era architecture But it’s not trapped by its illustrious past: there’s a thriving contemporary art scene that was given a huge boost in 2019 when Plovdiv was named European City of Culture And oenophiles will be in their element: the pedestrianised Kapana district is full of wine bars serving the highly regarded local reds *Card distributed by T212, issued and provided by Paynetics UK, available with an Invest account. 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