Zdjęcie okładkowe wpisu Michał KŁOSOWSKI:  Freedom of Speech. The Wrocław Way

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‘When telling Wrocław’s story, it is easy to overlook a thread that has run through the city almost unbroken since the fifteenth century. This thread is woven by printers, typesetters, booksellers and publishers – people who, over successive centuries, have painstakingly set type, worked the presses and reproduced texts. In an age when artificial intelligence assembles words automatically, their efforts are all the more worthy of recognition,’.

Michał KŁOSOWSKI: Wrocław and its Church

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‘Our image of Wrocław is usually shaped by its bridges, buildings, islands and layers of memory.

Karol POLEJOWSKI: For Bread and Freedom

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Seventy years ago, workers from the region’s largest factories, joined by the people of Poznań, courageously demanded a dignified life and independenc...

Jan ROKITA: The Katyn Lie

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The Katyn lie was a primal falsehood, a kind of mother of all the lies Europe proved willing to accept under Russian pressure – and at times even with...

Karol POLEJOWSKI: The Katyń Wound

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Eighty-six years have passed since the Soviets executed thousands of Polish detainees and prisoners of war without trial.

Stanisław LESZCZYŃSKI: Chopin and the Rest of the World

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In August and September 2024, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute invites audiences to the jubilee twentieth edition of the International Music Festival ‘Ch...

Artur SZKLENER: The History of Fryderyk Chopin’s Heart

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In 1879, on the 30th anniversary of Chopin’s death, the Warsaw Music Society arranged for the urn holding his heart to be entombed in the first pillar...

Artur SZKLENER: The Polish Dimension and Universality

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What makes the Chopin Competition so remarkable is the unprecedented level of audience interest, this year exceeding even the boldest expectations.

Silvia BRUNI: Italians’ Love for Chopin

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The Polish composer has always held a special place in the hearts of the Italian people, cherished as an intimate secret whose veil of mystery is occa...

Michał KŁOSOWSKI: Wrocław’s Road to Independence

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When Poland regained independence in November 1918, Wrocław, then known as Breslau, remained under German control, far removed from the borders of the...