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Donate Your UK Car to Ukraine
Discover how your old UK, EU car or 4×4 can save lives in Ukraine. Learn about the Car For Ukraine initiative, the tactical advantage of RHD vehicles, and the Easter Pysanky Trucks 2026 campaign.
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The Three Tees Agency: The 2026 Reunion
The Three Tees Agency reunion details: Saturday, 3rd October, 2026, at The Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DE, from midday to 3-ish. A Warm Welcome Awaits you.
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Operation Azalea: The Night Poland Lost Its Telex and Phone Connections
When martial law was declared in Poland on 13 December 1981, beyond just deploying tanks, the regime crippled the nation’s telephone and telex lines with a targeted strike.
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Hungarian Electoral Fraud
Updated 12 April 2026. The Price of a Vote in Hungary is the name of a recent documentary about how Electoral Control Works in Rural Hungary. The documentary analyses how systematic fraud has infiltrated the Hungarian voting system.
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Shoreham Airport
in 2026, we visited Shoreham Airport. The highlight of our visit was the The Shoreham Airport Collection, aka the Shoreham Airport Visitor Centre.
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Leopold Amersin: A Treuhänder in Occupied Kraków
Leopold Amersin was the Treuhänder (trustee) appointed to run the Aryanised firm A. Nussbaum in Kraków. His name appears repeatedly in the documents relating to the Englard family, including those used in the reconstruction of Mala Englard’s story, published earlier on this site.
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Tracing A Name Through Occupied Kraków: Mala Englard
Navigating the oppressive and often deadly bureaucracy of occupied Kraków. This is the story of Mala Englard, a young Jewish woman. From residency denied to reversal. Post updated 25 September 2026.
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Wanda Delong: Resistance Fighter From Cieszyn
Biography of the Polish resistance fighter from Cieszyn who didn’t come home. In my mother’s photo album sits a photo of Wanda Delong ‘sarenka’, clearly in my mother’s heart.
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Minute’s Silence at Worthing Town Hall in 2026
The Minute’s Silence at Worthing Town Hall to commemorate the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine took place on Tuesday, 24 February 2026.
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Salomea Berlińska: From a Cieszyn Schoolroom to the Kraków Ghetto?
This biography about Salomea Berlińska is a companion piece to my main article on the Handlówka in Cieszyn Class of 1936, where her signature first appears.
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Worthing Fundraiser for Ukraine’s Border Guards and UAV Units
My friend Yaroslava from Worthing, West Sussex is running a fundraiser in support of Ukraine. She is donating a book (in Ukrainian), in which she is a contributing author. You can win the book, which is signed by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian Ambassador to Great Britain.
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The Girls of Handlówka in Cieszyn: Class III.B of 1936
This project focuses on a 1936 pre-war photo album that belonged to my mother, Aniela Szkawran, who studied at the Miejska Szkoła Handlowa (Handlówka in Cieszyn).
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