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Did you know
... that
mazurek
cakes
(pictured)
are traditionally served in Poland during Easter and Christmas?
... that Austrian tennis player
Adam Baworowski
, a
Roland Garros
semifinalist, fought in World War II, first in the
Polish Army
against Germany and then in the
Wehrmacht
on the
Eastern Front
?
... that a memorial to the victims of
Treblinka extermination camp
, created by sculptor
Franciszek Duszeńko
, was unveiled by the
Marshal
of the
Sejm of the Republic of Poland
in the presence of 30,000 visitors?
... that the findings of the
Katyn Commission
concerning the
Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war
were denied for seventy years?