‘We feel orphaned’: Polish city mourns PaweÅ‚ Adamowicz
by Christian Davies from World news | The Guardian on (#47BM2)
GdaAsk mayor's funeral revealed a nation in shock, bereft of a man who stood for openness
Even as PaweA Adamowicz was lying in state at GdaAsk's European Solidarity Centre, a museum, archive, and public space dedicated to the history and values of the independent trade union born in the city's shipyards, its grief-stricken staff were preparing his entry into history.
The opening of the museum in 2014 was the realisation of a dream for Adamowicz, a GdaAsk native who had long sought to present his city to the world as a symbol of Europe's hard-won freedom. In between shifts maintaining an overnight vigil by his coffin, researchers gathered materials with which to commemorate him.
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