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?