Looking to access paid articles across multiple policy topics Interested in policy insights for EU professional organisations Protests were held across the country on All Saints’ Day Monday following the death of a 30-year-old woman who died in a hospital in Pszczyna while 22 weeks pregnant Doctors were told to hold off on removing the foetus until… Protests were held across the country on All Saints’ Day Monday following the death of a 30-year-old woman who died in a hospital in Pszczyna while 22 weeks pregnant. [Shutterstock / KieferPix] The death of a pregnant woman in Poland has sparked renewed political controversy as women's rights groups and opposition politicians point the finger of blame at the country’s near-total ban on abortions.  It has been one year since Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that women can terminate their pregnancies only in cases of rape or incest The ruling excludes fetal defects — which account for the vast majority of terminations in the country The death of the 30-year-old woman in a hospital in Pszczyna is the first to be publicly linked to the ruling The case dates from September but was first reported over the weekend A lawyer representing the woman’s family said that the medical decision to not carry out a possibly life-saving abortion was linked to the binding rules.  The news of the death comes at a politically delicate time. A citizens' legal initiative, from an anti-abortion group, that mandates long prison terms in cases of abortion was recently submitted to the Polish parliament's lower house where it was accepted by Speaker Elżbieta Witek for a first reading The proposal foresees sentences of five to 25 years and in certain circumstances life imprisonment incest and endangerment of the mother as exceptions to the abortion ban According to a statement by Jolanta Budzowska the lawyer representing the woman’s family the unnamed woman was hospitalized in her 22nd week of pregnancy when her amniotic fluid broke Doctors confirmed birth defects in the pregnancy during her hospitalization The death of the fetus during treatment sent the woman into septic shock said that the doctors were taking a "wait and see" approach They held back from draining her uterus until the fetus died — which the lawyer said was in accordance with the rules limiting abortion The case has been referred to prosecutors by the family's legal team The hospital where the woman was treated said that the “only factor” guiding its treatment was the safety of the patient and the fetus It said that the decision on whether to terminate the pregnancy was “another issue” and that “at this point it should only be emphasized that all medical decisions were made taking into account the legal provisions and standards of conduct in force in Poland.”  Budzowska said in a separate interview that while it was necessary to verify whether medical malpractice had taken place “we cannot ignore the legal environment in which we operate after the court's ruling.” She noted that while the law does allow abortions in cases where there is a risk to the mother's health bearing a fetus with birth defects can itself be a threat to health by not allowing pregnancy in cases of birth defects requires women to carry the fetus for longer It is then difficult to determine when exactly the threat is large enough to justify termination "A situation of medical uncertainty and legal uncertainty arose," the lawyer said The Polish court's ruling last year sparked weeks-long protests across the country Critics of the ban have once again come out against the decision following news of the woman's death Opposition and women's rights groups say it was a direct result of the fact that the doctors in Poland are afraid to carry out abortions so as not to be held legally accountable “The doctors were waiting until the fetus was dead. They were waiting and watching, until the fetus’ heart stopped beating. She also had a heart that kept on beating!” Aborcyjny DreamTeam, a group that helps Polish women with abortion, said in a statement Civic groups are organizing silent protests across the country and on social media under the slogan of “Not one more.” Irene Donadio, advocacy officer at the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network, which advocates for abortion rights, compared the case to that of Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 in Ireland following a miscarriage after being denied an abortion. The case led to the law being changed in the country "How much must a woman be dying before the doctor can take action without fearing prosecution?" said Donadio "A patient should never be in the hands of a doctor who is afraid to go to jail." Opposition politicians also joined in to criticize the government — which they see as in political control of the court that made the ruling and ultimately responsible for the decision Polish MEP Sylwia Spurek of the Greens said in a written statement to POLITICO that the death of the woman showed that the ruling had a "chilling" effect on doctors The case "shows how much women in Poland are endangered," said Spurek who is vice chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality "Today there is systemic institutional oppression of women in Poland." Barbara Nowacka, a member of parliament from Poland's opposition Civic Coalition, criticized the "paralyzing effect of a hopeless cruel law that puts the life of a fetus who had no chance to survive above the life of a woman with life experience The politicians of the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party say that the death was a result of a medical error abortion is still legal in Poland and that the ban is not a result of their policy but the Constitutional Tribunal’s interpretation of the law “The fact that people die is biology,” said PiS MP Marek Suski sometimes women still die during childbirth.” CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misstated when a citizen's initiative was submitted to the Polish parliament Local leaders say they urgently need more funds to address housing crunch and build schools warning that Warsaw’s proposed reforms are merely cosmetic The country hasn’t faced energy shortages despite the war — but power companies have taken a major hit The plan aims to rapidly find alternative sources of energy while ramping up energy savings and renewables Protesters link woman’s death by septic shock to new restrictions on ending unviable pregnancies Her family say that the hospital staff refused her life-saving health care because they were afraid of breaking the country’s strict abortion law Demonstrators were joined by senior opposition politicians the former president of the European Council I have to stay in bed and they can’t do anything,” Izabela – whose surname has not been made public– wrote in a text message to her mother after being admitted to a hospital in Pszczyna they will wait for the baby to die or for something to start happening The consultant responsible for Izabela told her husband the death was caused by a pulmonary embolism the initial autopsy found that the woman died of septic shock People light up their mobile phones in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw Photograph: Czarek Sokołowski/APIzabela died on 22 September but her death was made public by the family last week sparking controversy and protests across Poland “Following the tightening of the abortion law in Poland due to the 2020 ruling of the constitutional tribunal there remains only one ground for an abortion which would have applied in this case: endangerment of the life or health of the mother,” Budzowska said it is hard for the doctors to apply this in practice They do not know if they make the right decision when this real danger occurs If they carry out an abortion too early and the prosecutors then decide that there was no danger to the mother they can face up to three years in prison.” that she has people to live for,” a woman who shared the hospital room with Izabela told the Polish TV station TVN the hospital staff refused to induce a birth or perform a C-section before Izabela’s foetus died But they kept telling her that the heart is beating and that as long as the heart is beating this is the way it must be,” she said in a televised interview Izabela was not accompanied to hospital by friends or family when her waters broke in the 22nd week of pregnancy She kept in touch with her loved ones via WhatsApp The series of increasingly desperate messages Izabela sent to her mother the day before her death been admitted as evidence to the regional prosecutors in Katowice who are investigating the case for potential criminal medical malpractice A spokesperson for the hospital has said that Izabela was “under constant medical care” and that she received treatment from the moment she was admitted The woman is like an incubator and the baby is suffering too it has nothing to breathe with,” Izabela texted her mother in the afternoon before her death Although prenatal tests showed that the foetus was at a high risk of several abnormalities her family say that Izabela was determined to carry the pregnancy to term and was not considering an abortion According to abortion legislation in Poland it is not illegal for a person to have an abortion up until the 22nd week of pregnancy by self-administering abortion pills sent from abroad There are several non-profit organisations that help pregnant people secure such medication Many clinics in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – not far from Izabela’s home town – also cater specifically to Poles seeking the procedure Although performing an illegal abortion on someone else can be punished by up to three years in prison few people have served time for such crimes despite the considerable restrictions that have applied to the procedure over the last 20 years But a new bill that would treat illegal abortions as equal to murder and therefore punishable with life imprisonment has been introduced to parliament via a citizen’s motion An Aborcyjny Dream Team activist has been charged with aiding an illegal abortion after a man notified prosecutors that his wife received abortion pills in the post This was the first time that an activist from the organisation Budzowska said that Izabela’s family would like to see changes made to the abortion legislation “so that women will not have to die due to the legal doubts of the doctors” who has been described by her friends as “strong and determined” is survived by her husband and a nine-year-old daughter This article was amended on 7 November 2021 The photo of protesters holding up their phones was taken in front of the Royal Palace in Warsaw not the health ministry as stated in an earlier caption It was further amended on 8 November 2021 to correct the time of death Mohoric retains race lead on rising finish claiming the tough uphill sprint finish with a blistering acceleration 150 metres from the line Race leader Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) finished several bike lengths behind with João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) surging past Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) to claim third The very hilly 198.8-kilometre stage between Pszczyna and Bielsko-Biala ended with a bunch sprint of some 40 riders with a crash in the final kilometre bringing down some riders in the middle of the pack The stage was overshadowed by an earlier incident in the final local circuit, when a motorbike went off the road and struck various spectators with initial reports saying four members of the public had been injured Mohoric remains the overall leader ahead of Thursday’s crucial time trial stage a 16.6km rolling race against the clock in the city of Katowice by a narrow margin ahead of Almeida.  No sooner had the 160 riders remaining in the race started from Pscyzyna than a blizzard of early attacks materialized but none of them secured any lasting advantage After the fast and furious opening segment with the first hour run off at an average speed of 45.2 kph it was only when a move with Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Dstny) Tobias Andresen (Team dsm-firmenich) and Markus Hoelgard (Lidl-Trek) finally formed that the stage settled into a more stable pattern The five breakaways headed into the mountainous middle segment of stage 5 with an advantage of just over three minutes But even if the rest were not an overall threat Hoelgard’s relatively high placing on GC meant the quintet never going to get much more of a gap The five maintained their advantage on a Bahrain-led peloton over the first challenge of the day verdant countryside of southern Poland to the foot of the first of two category 1 ascents They continued to collaborate well on the climb but after initially holding the bunch at bay Ineos’ and Bahrain’s much more aggressive riding on the second and last first-category Ineos Grenadiers continued to hammer away on the front on the rolling approach roads to Bielsko-Biala’s seven-kilometre finishing circuit tackled three times and including a grinding uphill rise to the line the British team piled on the pressure on the cobbled streets of Bielsko-Biala’s historic centre even as De Gendt’s persistence reduced the front group to himself and Hoelgard Bahrain and UAE were both still well represented the GC teams seemed under little inclination to risk more last minute attacks with two laps to go the gap was down to eight seconds and while De Gendt still battled on regardless it was only for him be swept up 13 kilometres from the line Ineos’ iron grip on affairs at the head of the pack and the toll of the previous climbs on the day helped prevent any more attacks from going clear as news broke over race radios that there had been a crash in the finish involving a motorbike and the public the bunch suddenly slowed before finally regaining a ragged kind of momentum in the last kilometre In a confused finale on the grinding three kilometre uphill to the line Ineos hit the front again to try and to set things up for their GC contender Kwiatkowski But while a crash within sight of the finishing gantries saw around a dozen riders go down Van Den Berg then accelerated out of the pack to claim the first World Tour victory of his career Results powered by FirstCycling Alasdair FotheringhamSocial Links NavigationAlasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991 He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain he has also written for The Independent,  The Guardian,  ProCycling Nov 8, 2021 | Politics, Society Poland’s health ministry has issued new guidance to hospitals on treating complications in pregnancies after a woman died following a decision by doctors to wait for her foetus to die before removing it. Many have blamed their decision on last year’s introduction of a near-total ban on abortion As silent protests took place in many cities and towns throughout Poland following the death of the woman in hospital in Pszczyna the health minister hinted that doctors treating her may have feared legal repercussions for terminating the abortion a number of other similar cases of women dying – or being at risk of dying – due to doctors’ reluctance to terminate pregnancies have been published in the media Sound of silence #anijednejwiecej pic.twitter.com/Y546bnEN1J — Jakub Wende (@JakubWende) November 6, 2021 “The death of the 30-year-old woman admitted to hospital in Pszczyna is a very difficult issue,” said Adam Niedzielski “One that will be investigated by the prosecutor’s office and the National Health Fund.” “Perhaps the interpretation of last year’s ruling could have resulted in a doctor being afraid to make a decision,” added Niedzielski, referring to last year’s decision by the Constitutional Tribunal that made nearly all abortions illegal. Such doubts should be clarified by the publication of a new set of guidelines entitled “The mother’s life and health are most important” The document outlines the necessary procedures and stresses that if there is a threat to a pregnant woman’s life including suspicion of infection in the uterus or haemorrhage current regulations allow termination of the pregnancy The law “clearly specifies that risk to mother’s life or health constitutes a premise [for terminating a pregnancy],” said Niedzielski He added that “it is enough for one of these premises to occur for a doctor to react” There is no abortion ban in Poland, says Kaczyński. Women “can arrange abortions abroad” the ministry point out that the patient has to be informed at every stage of prenatal care about any risks to her health or life “We have to fully stress that doctors can’t be afraid of taking obvious decisions based on their experience and current medical knowledge,” the ministry wrote The document lists a number of procedures that should be followed in each instance of premature rupture of membranes who previously ordered an audit in the hospital in which Izabela died has also asked the head of the National Health Fund to monitor all the instances throughout the country in which the life or health of pregnant women could be at risk amid the weekend’s large-scale protests over the death other stories emerged showing that this might have not been an isolated case One of them took place in mid-June in Świdnica in southwestern Poland “My wife Ania was told to give birth to a dead child,” recalls her husband who after reading about what happened in Pszczyna decided to talk to the media “It’s the same situation,” he told Gazeta Wyborcza Agnieszka w ciąży pozamacicznej usłyszała w szpitalu w Kaliszu: Mamy związane ręce, musimy czekać https://t.co/tzfYLPG3MK — Bartosz T. Wieliński 🇵🇱💯 (@Bart_Wielinski) November 7, 2021 Ania was brought to the hospital in the fifth month of pregnancy as she was feeling unwell it turned out that the foetus was no longer alive yet still they told her to give birth,” the husband told Onet died of septic shock within 24 hours of admission to the hospital I could have orphaned two kids,” said Agnieszka from Kalisz who told Gazeta Wyborcza that she was denied a termination of an ectopic pregnancy with doctors saying “that’s the climate we have at the moment” A new poll shows that a large majority of people in Poland want the country’s abortion law to be liberalised The findings follow similar results in previous surveys Three quarters of Poles want abortion law softened amid protests over pregnant woman’s death argued that the tragedy has nothing to do with the abortion law which they note still allows for pregnancies to be terminated if they threaten the health or life of the mother an ultraconservative organisation that 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camp in Auschwitz and a Russian soldiers’ WWII cemetery in Pszczyna They claim they will conduct their rally to Berlin as planned The ones that visited Auschwitz and Pszczyna hid the fact that they are from Night Wolves rented bikes and drove to Poland to lay flowers in the camp one of the biggest Nazi extermination centres which was liberated by the Soviet Union’s Red Army on 27 January 1945 Russian bikers started their rally from Moscow to Berlin last Saturday (25 April) They wanted to take the same route as the Red Army in their so called “victory march” over fascism in 1945 via Minsk they reached the Polish-Belarusian border but were refused entry on technical grounds they tried to get in through Lithuania but were stopped there as well The whole event was branded as a “Russian provocation” \"The kind of political demonstrations performed by the Night Wolves do not serve European-Russian relations well,\" Polish foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna said nationalistic world view and supports the politics of Russian president Vladimir Putin Putin himself has said they are “carrying out very important patriotic and military work” The bikers took an active role in the annexation of Crimea and they are allegedly involved in the war in Eastern Ukraine “They praise Joseph Stalin and each year they celebrate the end of the Great Patriotic War – part of WWII which started in October 1941 when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union,” Anna Maria Dynar Russia expert at The Polish Institute of International Affairs The victory over Nazi Germany is central to Putin’s nationalist propaganda But there are important differences between the “European” and “Russian” narratives of WWII history “For former Soviet republics and the satellite countries the so-called Russian victory over fascism was the beginning of Soviet occupation so for us there is not much to celebrate on 9 May they think we are ungrateful,” Dynar explains chair of the subcommittee on security and sefence believes that the Night Wolves rally will be “an opportunity to offend the people of Central and Eastern Europe and promote Russia’s bogus historical propaganda” ties in perfectly with the Kremlin’s latest strategies,” she said “By not letting them into our country we show that we don’t accept their actions It’s our solidarity with Ukraine,” Wiktor Ross former charge d’affaires in Polish embassy in Moscow the controversy is already a win for Putin the EU shows its hypocrisy in the way it grants civil liberties only to some Russian propaganda will praise a symbolic victory march over resurgent fascism In both cases Russian propaganda wins,\" Jan W the situation reflects the bad state of EU-Russia relations \"Normally such minor events should not affect diplomatic relations But in this case we had embassies involved there were some comments from both Polish and Russian foreign ministries It just shows that the tension is really huge there is no consensus in Polish society on whether the Night Wolves should be allowed to pass through According to a Millward Brown SMG/KRC poll 52 percent of respondents didn’t want the Russian bikers to cross Poland but 40 percent thought they should be allowed to 0 CommentsEU Politicalby Paulina Pacula log in or subscribeEnjoy access to all articles and 25 years of archives Become a member for as low as €1,75 per week Log in and download the free e-publication of the latest A&B The printed version is available for sale online in our store and press salons throughout Poland unique e-mail [will also be used as login in the portal] Only name - check the correctness of the data Only the last name - check the correctness of the data password must be at least 8 characters long * fields required for registration; data can be completed in account settings after logging in ** establishment of a student account follows verification of the validity of the student ID card Please try later or let us know: contact Technology: aitnet.pl Ⓒ AiB Publishing House 2025 officers of the CBA Regional Office in Katowice detained former employees of Alior Bank SA: 5 men and a woman Procedural activities were carried out at the prosecutor's request in Warsaw The detainees were brought to the Silesian Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office in Katowice The prosecutor presented the suspects with a total of 10 charges The investigation findings indicate that in connection with granting credit support to Meat Processing Business Henryk Kania SA based on documents certifying untruth actions were taken to the detriment of Alior Bank SA served as director of the Agro Business Department of Alior Bank The remaining persons are former bank employees who issued opinions on the justification for granting financial support to the entrepreneur from Pszczyna The total value of the damage caused to the bank is estimated at PLN 161 million The prosecutor filed a motion with the Court to apply temporary arrest to Wojciech O the Court applied a property guarantee of PLN 1 million a ban on leaving the country and police supervision to Wojciech O Preventive measures were applied to the remaining three individuals in the form of property guarantees ranging from PLN 20,000 to PLN 100,000 police supervision combined with a ban on contacting specific individuals Police supervision and a ban on leaving the country were applied to one individual Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday (6 November) in Warsaw and dozens of other Polish cities to denounce a nine-month-old abortion law blamed for claiming the life of a pregnant mother A protest under the slogan 'Not one more' in Wroclaw which banned terminations in cases of foetal defects sparked all over the country under the slogan 'Not one more' after the death of septic shock of a 30-year-old pregnant woman from Pszczyna Thousands of people took to the streets of Poland for a fifth straight day of protests against a constitutional court ruling that would impose a near-total ban on abortion in the EU country Piotr Korczyński talks with Józef Kłyk about the Silesian western and the dramatic fate of the Silesian people during World War II When you served in the bomb disposal unit in Łódź you ended up at the set of the “Hubal” movie believed to be one of the best Polish wartime films we were responsible for pyrotechnical effects but we also worked as extras in the battle scenes there were many Silesians who spoke both the Silesian dialect and German language well so most often we played Wehrmacht soldiers In one of the scenes we stepped in as a German unit between two burning barns There was such heat there that the helmets deformed on our heads and began to resemble those of the Red Army Germans entered the clouds of smoke and Russians ran out of them But your film experience began much earlier In my childhood I found old issues of the German magazine “Filmwelt” in the attic of my family’s house beautiful photos from the set of “The Gold Rush” All this “backroom of illusion” immediately captured my imagination My first fascination with the Wild West is closely tied to him I started to prepare western accessories: belts with pouches I was also looking for a stage because I wanted to shoot a classic western scene of an assault on such a vehicle I remembered then that in Bojszów there is an old landauer [a glass coach in the Silesian dialect] Its owner Tomek Rogalski was a full-fledged horse-rider but he also liked to show off his riding skills I was only 17; so when I came to him with my friends I was amazed to see that he had a Pszczyna [a town in Poland] hat with a wide roundabout on his head tall leather shoes and so-called manchestroks – tight trousers Just fasten the belt with collars and it’s ready But what surprised me the most was the cowboy shawl around his neck I think you tied this scarf to the coolness of yours” When I ride in the field it gets sweaty; here’s the rein here’s where the levers be to the machine – when it gets sweaty ‘dis shawl take my sweat away and then it dry on my back as I be turning it around.” He used the scarf like cowboys on the prairie when Kazimierz Kutz saw “Człowiek znikąd” (Man from Nowhere) “You are natural there because the Silesians in Texas didn’t buy horses for adornment but for work so after work they would sit on their mounts and run as much as they could to a saloon to get a beer.” You also made films about the fate of the Bojszów residents during the Silesian Uprisings which were no less dramatic than the experiences of the Silesians in Texas I made my first film about the Silesian Uprising in 1976 The script of “Ku Polsce” (Towards Poland) was based on the memories of two veterans of the Bojszów Uprising still living at that time – Konrad Kapias and Wiktor Piekorz who survived the massacre in the Third Silesian Uprising I focused on the motifs of the First Uprising the headquarters of the Polish Military Organization were installed in Oświęcim They ordered the Bojszów residents to acquire weapons from a warehouse located in the German manor that the weapons would be used in the planned uprising so they reported with them to the headquarters in Oświęcim and the staff announced that they were needed to fight the Bolsheviks on the eastern border for which they were thrown into custody by the Poles Then a paradoxical situation arose – the militiamen were outlawed by both the German and Polish authorities when the uprising broke out in August 1919 They killed four Grenschutz [a volunteer territorial militia unit] but their commander managed to escape in a woman’s disguise and brought relief When the Germans surrounded the village to pacify it Those who managed to escape from the cauldron took the escape route across the Vistula River to the Polish side My film tells the story of the events in question You show the equally convoluted fate of the Silesian people in the Second World War Did you use your father’s frontline experience in these films my father’s life was marked by a truly western-like episode Before my father was sent to the Second Corps of General Anders had ritualistic bands and held bowie knives in their hands My father was incorporated into the Wehrmacht even though he had only one eye He lost the other one when he was 16-year-old and chopping wood he was not conscripted into the Polish Army When my father reported to the recruiting officer that he couldn’t see one eye “You are the best prepared of all for the army here; others have to close the eye when shooting.” How long did your father serve in the German army he was appointed a liaison officer and often took a train to Warsaw with one of the officers He told me that he always started his journey in the “Nur für Deutsche” compartment the passengers did not look very favorably at his uniform Once upon a time they talked quite freely about the contraband they had hidden in their luggage and under their clothes my father suddenly spoke dialectical Polish there will be a military policeman’s checkpoint and they will take all of you to jail.” He also turned to a teenage girl sitting next to him it’s too heavy for the violin alone.” Everyone went pale “I take it through the checkpoint for you” the gendarmes stopped the soldier loaded with suitcases Then father pointed to his commander sitting in the wagon and shouted it’s all his!” The officer looked out only through the window and confirmed in German ja.” That’s how my father started working with the Polish underground First he was in Sevastopol where the fights took place in the heat of 50 degrees Celsius and the temperature reached minus 50 degrees Celsius my father managed to break away from the Stalingrad hell thanks to a friend of his Together with a certain Bavarian he deserted and both of them reached Romania There they were arrested by the SS and put against the wall the same familiar officer with the survivors of their unit was passing by and he certified that the convicts were not deserters but soldiers sent for reconnaissance any filmmaker would be afraid to invent such a story so as not to be accused of too much fantasy someone reported to nearby Auschwitz that two soldiers in field uniforms with frostbite marks on their faces thus most likely deserters from the eastern front An SS officer who came home gave both of them an alternative: either death or they return to the mother unit in Przemyśl father was unexpectedly sent to the eastern front again but eventually he was sent with the unit to the West or rather pretending to defend Frankfurt against the Americans Polish officers came to the POW camp and announced that those who felt Polish should come forward Some of the boys did come forward but my father decided to wait He did the right thing because the Germans slit all their throats at night The next time Polish recruiters arrived in trucks and then father entered on the list of volunteers for the Polish Army They were traveling on open train platforms and the French thought they were German prisoners so they poured boiling water and hot tar on them from bridges and viaducts In Marseilles they were dressed up in British battle tracksuits with patches with the inscription “Poland” and sailed to Naples From there they were taken to Bari and incorporated into the armored regiment of the 2nd Corps so they started to practice fighting with.. because then it was planned to send Poles to the Japanese front The communist secret police officers waited for my father at home Not because he served in the Wehrmacht he managed to get away from them and hid for a year On the basis of my father’s experiences I made “Czterech synów ojciec miał” (Father and His Lordship had Four Sons) and “Nie wszystko mi wojna zabrała” (War Didn’t Take Everything away from Me) You used many other accounts of Silesian people on the fronts of World War II in your films In “War Didn’t Take Everything away from Me” I told the story of two Wehrmacht conscripts who were taken to Lviv One day they stand under barracks and smoking cigarettes Suddenly a young woman with a child in her arms approaches them and asks you speak Polish and you are in the German army?” And they answer “My husband was taken away by the Russians,” she answered you don’t go under the barracks here because they’ll think badly about you,” they advised her kindly “But I don’t have anything to give my child to eat,” she cried the Silesians prepared a food package for her every day their unit was ordered to go to the front to the depths of Russia One of them was seriously injured during the fighting which he gave to the wife of the fallen man the Russians released the last prisoners of Stalingrad from captivity Then it turned out that his friend survived the war And there is a scene in the film when the survivor and here his ex-wife and his front friend play with a small child He stares for a second and says in dialect so I won’t interrupt you,” and he goes to Pszczyna to start a new life for himself Then the repatriates from the East come to the town stops in the middle of the road because in the crowd he sees a woman he knows from Lviv “It was you who brought us bread!” It turned out that her husband died in a Russian camp Józef Kłyk is a creator of Silesian westerns and war films that he shoots in Bojszów near Pszczyna With over 6 million Ruger 10/22 made it’s no surprise that there are several stock kits available has just added another option if you want to upgrade yours What is extra cool with this one is that the under folding stock in metal is from an original AK47 This might not be the most ergonomic thing to shoulder If the stock can take the recoil of a 7,62×39 a .22LR should be no problem Manufactured in Poland from handpicked European Ash Fits perfectly to Ruger 10/22 with Factory Barrel Metal underfolding stock original from AK47 which you receive may look different (each piece of wood is unique) Folded length with standard 18″ barell – 27″ Shipping from Poland via UPS Express Saver – 2-4 days guaranteed delivery time It would have been nice with a picture of the Ruger 10/22 in the stock The stocks are available via GunBroker and they cost 155$ plus shipping http://mbwstocks.com/where-to-buy/ Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics More by Eric B Probably being overly pedantic here butAren't these folders from AKMSs @FulMetlJakit They did make a small number of underfolding AK-47s as the AKS Więcej informacji o sytuacji kobiet w Polsce przeczytasz na stronie głównej Gazeta.pl. W środę w programie "UWAGA! TVN" dziennikarze rozmawiali z matką i bratem 30-letniej Izabeli które wykonała na początku września że dziecko może mieć liczne wady zdecydowała się donosić ciążę - mówi "Uwadze" matka zmarłej Córka pani Izabeli przewróciła się podczas zabawy i dostała krwotoku z nosa Kobieta pojechała z nią do szpitala do Bielska-Białej zadzwoniła do mamy i powiedziała Do szpitala miała stawić się następnego dnia. Matka pani Izabeli podkreśla że córka bardzo się bała o czym pisała jej w wiadomościach W kolejnych wiadomościach Izabela sygnalizowała mamie że bardzo źle się czuje i ma gorączkę. Rodzina twierdzi że o swoim samopoczuciu wyraźnie informowała personel szpitala czekając biernie aż płód obumrze które stwierdziło śmierć płodu Nie udało się jej jednak uratować Wolałabym swoje życie za nią oddać jak to dalej przeżyję - mówi pani Barbara.  2 listopada szpital w Pszczynie odniósł się do śmierci kobiety "Łączymy się w bólu z wszystkimi których tak jak nas dotknęła śmierć naszej Pacjentki poród i połóg od wieków postrzegane są przez medyków jako jedne z najtrudniejszych momentów życia kobiety Postęp medycyny znacznie ograniczył ryzyka w tym zakresie ciągle jeszcze ich nie wykluczył" - czytamy na początku komunikatu.  że personel medyczny kierował się troską o zdrowie i życia pacjentki oraz płodu "Osobną sprawą jest ocena stanu prawnego w zakresie dopuszczalności przerywania ciąży W tym miejscu należy jedynie podkreślić że wszystkie decyzje lekarskie zostały podjęte z uwzględnieniem obowiązujących w Polsce przepisów prawa oraz standardów postępowania" - zaznaczyła dyrekcja szpitala - Śmierć ciężarnej 30-latki w szpitalu w Pszczynie jest spowodowana przez polityczną decyzję Trybunału Konstytucyjnego Trybunał pani Przyłębskiej zasiał śmierć Teraz zaczynają się żniwa to takie przypadki by się nie zdarzały A tych przypadków będzie więcej bo konsekwencje tej decyzji politycznej są takie że lekarze zaczynają się zachowywać w taki sposób Nie zachowują się często tak jak lekarze powinni się zachować bo boją się konsekwencji prawnych które mogą ich dotknąć - powiedział w rozmowie z TVN24 wicemarszałek Sejmu i poseł Lewicy Włodzimierz Czarzasty że w tej sytuacji "wszystko jest jasne" a śmierć 30-latki jest bezpośrednim skutkiem decyzji TK ws - Polityczny trybunał kierowany przez odkrycie towarzyskie prezesa Kaczyńskiego podjął polityczną decyzję Dzisiaj płacimy za to straszną cenę Za to barbarzyńskie prawo płacą Polacy ale rachunek sumienia w tej sprawie powinien być wystawiony panu Kaczyńskiemu Morawieckiemu i wszystkim tym politykom PiS-u którzy zdecydowali się na taki krok - stwierdził poseł Koalicji Obywatelskiej Do sprawy na antenie TVP odniósł się też Marek Suski z PiS Zdarzają się rzeczywiście błędy lekarskie zdarzają się po prostu osoby chore i niestety wciąż czasem przy porodach kobiety umierają która się nie zdarza - powiedział poseł.  ale z całą pewnością nie ma to żadnego związku z jakąkolwiek decyzją trybunału - stwierdził polityk że to może pod domem Bodnara te świeczki się paliły - odparł Suski mówiąc o poniedziałkowych manifestacjach.