Members of the Ulma family at their home and farm. On March 24, 1944, all nine members of the Ulma family were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland, including a child still in the womb. / Credit: Father Witold B.
When a Dutch journalist claimed to have found documents indicating that Pope John Paul II covered up clergy sexual abuse while serving as the archbishop of Krakow, it sparked a predictable media frenzy in Poland.
Some Poles flout virus rules as harder lockdown takes effect
By VANESSA GERA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKIMarch 27, 2021 GMT
WARSAW, Poland (AP) The Piw Paw club in Warsaw advertised its event as a “Pandemic Fashion Show,” with models wearing “masks from the Spring 2021 collection.”
But even before the show could start on Friday night, police swept in. They cleared away the few customers and arrested the club owner, who has defiantly kept his doors open despite pandemic restrictions banning the sale of alcohol or indoor dining and despite earlier police raids and detentions.
A raft of new pandemic restrictions took effect in Poland on Saturday to slow the spread of the coronavirus as central Europe has emerged as a global hot spot. But as the club raid shows, authorities already had problems with people flouting the existing rules.
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