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Historic Warsaw store, seeking rebirth, hit by pandemic

by Monika ScislowskaVanessa Gera
| July 13, 2021 12:09 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Jablkowski Brothers Department Store was once a Warsaw landmark that revolutionized shopping and brought goods to a modernizing society in the early 20th century. But unlike Harrods in London and other Western counterparts, the business was forced into bankruptcy and seized by Poland's communist regime that took power after World War II.

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