This story is featured in our Episode 42. Sergiusz Pinkwart is a writer, journalist, traveller, blogger, musician and guide at the National Museum in Warsaw. He comes from Zakopane and lived most of life in Warsaw. A year and a half ago he moved to Liverpool. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw as well as the Department of Mediterranean Archeology at Warsaw University. He worked as a musician in the Polish Radio Orchestra and at the “Roma” Music Theatre in Warsaw. He started his journalistic career as a reporter with Super Express. After an internship…
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In this episode you will hear: • How a young German sees the complicated relationship between Germany and Poland – the past and the present (part 1). • How it is possible to master the “impossibly difficult” Polish language when you are British. • How to travel the world with a young child and have extra fun. Interviews: • Johannes Schneider – a German, born and educated in Germany, who also lived for a number of years in Austria, now a Canadian, talks about his native country’s troubled past – WWII and its relationship with Poland (part 1 of the…
In this episode you will hear: How two Polish Canadians celebrate the 150th birthday of Canada and why everybody falls in love with their red couch project About a young Pole who earned a prestigious scholarship to study in a posh boarding school in England and now studies medicine at Cambridge University and what he is doing to give back to the community How I happened to meet the minister of housing of Guyana at the Polish Consulate in Toronto and why she is flying to Poland And what a young man from India working in Denmark and dating a Polish…
This story is featured in our Episode 40. It’s an annual event of high calibre – organized by students and meant for students of British universities who are Polish. This year’s 10th Congress of Polish Student Societies in the UK, held in January, was hosted by the Cambridge University Polish Society. One of its most active members is Jakub Nagrodzki, a student of medicine at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He talks to POLcast about his educational path in Britain and the importance of the annual gatherings of students and their renowned guests. Federation of Polish Students Societies in the UK, created in…
In this episode you will hear: How a Canadian Jew returned to his native Poland after 75 years. Why a Polish runner is running 1600 km from Canadian Yukon to Alaska How a non-Pole got fascinated with Polish WWII history and what this fascination resulted in Was Christopher Columbus Polish? Interviews: • Terry Tegnazian – an American of Armenian descent, whose fascination with Poland’s WWII history and experiences led to the establishment of an independent publishing house Aquila Polonia, which specializes in high-quality books about Polish WWII history. • Michal Kielbasinski – a Polish adventure racer and ultra runner, who has…
This story was featured in: Episode 39 Not much is known in the world about the history of Poland. As our interlocutor says, everyone has heard of the Holocaust, but almost no one knows about the fate of Poland during WWII, attacked by two enemies – Germans and Soviets, and the heroism of many of its people, e.g. Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain, Żegota – clandestine organization helping the Jews, the massive underground state, heroes letting themselves be imprisoned in Auschwitz to report on the massacres and trying to inform the world about the horrors inflicted by the…
This story was featured in: Episode 39 Dogs have been the best and most loyal friends of humans for centuries, guarding, guiding them and helping in their work. One man from Poland Michal Kielbasinski, decided it’s time to say thank you to them. The way he chose to express this gratitude is very daring and dangerous but that’s the way Michal is – he loves adventure, challenge and extreme sports. Michal, who lives in the Polish city of Lodz, is an adventure racer and ultra runner – running several hundred kilometre super marathons. He is now in the Yukon Territory…
75 years is a long time – imagine visiting a place where you were born and had to leave, for the first time after so many years. Sol Nayman is a Polish Jew living in Toronto. He was born in 1935 in Stoczek Wegrowski, or Stok (as most Jews referred to it), Poland to Yudel Najman and Sore Roize Rosenberg; his older sister Mania was born in 1928. He was four years old when Poland was attacked by Nazi Germany in 1939. His family, in despair to survive, had no choice but to flee – they ended up in the Soviet Union…
This story was featured in: Episode 38 Poetry does not always come on a page of a book. Some poets convey their thoughts and feelings through the spoken word. One such artist who follows this tradition is Michelle Dabrowski – a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, poet, producer, arts educator and community/arts development practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. Michelle is of Polish descent. Michelle’s website Michelle on Facebook More about Michelle Listen to the part of our interview devoted to Michelle’s curriculum – its rationale and origin:
This story was featured in: Episode 38 Some situations in life are so unbelievable that they sound like taken straight from a movie. And if they really were to inspire a screenplay, people would probably comment on such a movie by saying in a dismissive way: come on, things like this don’t happen in real life. Well, this one did. The main character in the story is Andrzej Rozbicki, a well-known Toronto conductor, music teacher, and concert organizer. In Episode One of our POLcast we talked to his students who shared their impressions after visiting Europe on the Music and History high-school…