Portal:Poland/Did you know/43

... that Magdalena Fularczyk (pictured) was part of the first female Polish rowing team to win a world championship gold in an Olympic boat class?
... that during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland, the Polish nine-member Król family rescued the Jewish six-member Steinlauf family from the Nowy Sącz Ghetto despite the risk of death penalty?
... that two Polish nuns harbouring Jewish fugitives who escaped from the Słonim Ghetto were beatified by Pope John Paul II among the 108 Martyrs of World War II?
... that the 2015 Polish horror film The Lure is a reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in the 1980s Poland?
... that Poland is creating a 35,000-strong volunteer military force designed to counter hybrid warfare?

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