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41st year  -  N° 160                 Tuesday, 9 June 2026         Antwerpen		
Our Young Life was Like a Flower in Bloom
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Monday 1st of November 1965
61 years, 4 months and 22 days ago




Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice at the age of 18 in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland.

On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."