In the old days, Santa Claus (imagined as a bishop ... like singing a Christmas carol. Who is this Starman? In Polish, he’s called Gwiazdor (gvia-zdoohr) and he’s an older fellow dressed a bit like a ...

The very word ‘postcard’ did not have a proper Polish equivalent for several decades after it ... in the cards themselves – in one of Maria Heidrich's designs, Santa Claus himself was sitting behind ...