Remembering the past

THE Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust today announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the international exhibition firm Musealia. The groundbreaking exhibition will open in New York City on May 8, 2019 and run through January 3, 2020.

The exhibition's opening on May 8 marks the anniversary of VE Day or Victory in Europe Day, 1945, when the Allies celebrated Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces and the end of World War II.

One of the most visited exhibitions in Europe last year. The exhibition explores the dual identity of the camp as a physical location—the largest documented mass murder site in human history—and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human barbarity.

Featuring more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs, the New York presentation of the exhibition will allow visitors to experience artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on view for the first time in the North America, including hundreds of personal items—such as suitcases, eyeglasses, and shoes—that belonged to survivors and victims of Auschwitz. 

Other artifacts include concrete posts that were part of the fence of the Auschwitz camp; fragments of an original barrack for prisoners from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp; a desk and other possessions of the first and the longest serving Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss; a gas mask used by the SS; Picasso's Lithograph of Prisoner; and an original German-made Model 2 freight wagon used for the deportation of Jews to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Poland.

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Poland's only signature golf course to celebrate in 2019

MODRY LAS Golf Club has rounded off an impressive record-breaking season that has laid the groundwork for a special anniversary year in 2019. With bookings up and new facilities taking shape, the Gary Player-designed course will celebrate its 10th anniversary in style. 

The Polish resort, which was officially opened by Player in 2009, has collected a host of international awards during its first decade in operation. Now in its ninth year, Poland’s only signature course recorded a 20% increase in associated accommodation bookings and a similar hike in stay-and-play packages.

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Which? Best tourist city of 2017

FOR the third time readers of the British magazine "Which?Travel!" awarded Krakow the title of the best tourist city. According to the British tourist magazine, the capital of Malopolska received 94% votes. The "Which?Travel!" has been researching cities for many years. The results are based on statements made by readers who rate the level of contentment in the city saying how likely they are to recommend a friend or family.

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Snippets of Stats . . .

MORE foreign tourists visit Poland, the Central Statistical Office's (GUS) data show. Their number grew to 3.4 million in the first seven months of 2016 from 3.2 million in the same period of 2015.

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Ryanair expands winter network from Belfast and Newcastle

THREE new routes to #Poland are being introduced by #Ryanair from Belfast and Newcastle as part of expanded winter schedules from both airports. Gdansk, Warsaw, and Wroclaw are being added to the budget carrier’s network from the two airports for winter 2016-17.

These are in addition to seven new routes announced earlier from Belfast to Alicante, Berlin, Krakow, Lanzarote, Malaga, Milan, and Tenerife, as well as extra daily flights to Gatwick.

Ryanair’s chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs, said: ‘Our new Polish routes will be ideal for both business and leisure customers and we look forward to growing routes, traffic, and jobs in Belfast in the coming months and years.’

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Wizz Air launches new route to Poland

CUT-PRICE carrier Wizz Air is to start flights from Luton to Olsztyn-Mazury in north-east Poland. 

Flights to the 'Lake District of Poland' will start on June 18. They will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

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Wizz Air reaches 100 million passengers milestone

WIZZ AIR has carried its 100 millionth passenger, 11 years after operating its first flight between Poland and Britain.

The 100 millionth passenger travelled on the Luton to Warsaw route, a milestone marked by the airline giving away free flights to all on board.

Chief executive József Váradi said: ‘We operated our first flight in 2004 between #Poland and the UK, and today, 11 years later, we celebrate a total of 100 million passengers carried from over 110 airports across 38 countries. We are celebrating at all our six Polish airport bases because 40% of our phenomenal growth was made with our Polish customers and their visitors.

‘We remain committed to grow passenger traffic in all the Polish regions we fly to, and to continuously offer our customers new opportunities to travel, whether on business, leisure, or to unite with their families.

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Wizz Air to open new UK routes to Lublin

DONCASTER-SHEFFIELD and Glasgow airports will get flights to Lublin as Wizz Air establishes a base at the regional airport in eastern Poland.

Up to three flights a week on the new routes will be offered from September 14, while frequency on an existing service from Luton will be increased from five to seven flights a week.

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Picture Credit: Lublin1by Lukaszprzy (lukaszprzy@msn.com) - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 

Festival fun … and what it costs

TRAVEL money company No.1 Currency has compared the costs of the most popular festivals across the globe this summer on a per-day basis, once ticket cost, accommodation, food and drinks are taken into consideration. 

When calculated on a per-day-rate, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California – said to be America’s answer to Glastonbury – tops the list as the most expensive, at £187 per day. Coachella has the highest admission charge, at £252. 

Tomorrowland in Belgium follows as the second most expensive, at £186 per day.

England’s Glastonbury is one of the longest-established summer festivals, but music lovers heading there in June will certainly pay for the experience. It comes in as the third most expensive at £113 a day.

Roskilde in Denmark will set revellers back £641, but for that you get eight days of festival fun.

British festival fans looking to make their pounds go further are best off heading to Slavic countries. The Exit festival in Serbia is the cheapest place to enjoy live music, with the daily and total costs for the four days coming to just £54 and £217 respectively. A beer there costs £1, almost a sixth of the cost of beer at Coachella. 

The Open’er festival in Poland closely follows Exit as the second cheapest, with a day costing just £57.

Simon Phillips, Head of Retail for No1. Currency, says: ‘As the birth place of British festival culture, Glastonbury remains one of the most iconic and celebrated music events in the British calendar but, as our research shows, being a part of this tradition will cost you. Tickets are not far behind those of Coachella in terms of prices, and neither is the cost of food and drink when you’re there – unsurprising considering the festival is famous for having some of the best festival food around.

‘It can actually work out much better value to travel to a festival in mainland Europe than to stay at home. Not only does your cash go further in Europe, where food and drink in particular are relatively cheap compared to the UK, but Brits heading to festivals in the eurozone this summer will enjoy the added bonus of a strengthening pound.’

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Picture Credit: "Lollobrigida at Exit, Serbia" by Yuppien (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; "Against Me playing at Coachella" by R1vers (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; 

Wizz Air takes off from Bristol

A NEW airline will be flying from Bristol Airport next year following Wizz Air’s announcement that it will operate a twice-weekly service to Katowice, Poland, from June. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday.

Katowice is the main city of the Upper Silesian region of Poland and is a centre for science and industry, as well as having an eclectic mix of architectural styles with Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings alongside Communist-era Modernist structures.

Tickets are now on sale from £25.99 one way (including taxes, non-optional charges and one small cabin bag) and can be booked at wizzair.com.

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Warsaw best value for culture vultures

Warsaw's Łazienki Palace
by Wojsyl - via Wikimedia Commons 

WARSAW offers holidaymakers in search of culture the best value for money, according to a Post Office study.

Six tickets to museums and galleries in the Polish capital cost £70 which compares with £223 in Vienna and Amsterdam, £242 in Barcelona and Paris, and £256 in London.

This was due in part to the current strength of sterling against the Polish zloty.

Pictured is Warsaw's Lazienki Palace,  Lazienki Park - this beautiful planned Palace-Garden, to where on any given Sunday half of Warsaw descends to take the traditional family stroll. Admission is free.

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