In this episode, Ewa and Maurits travel through Poland’s eastern borderlands of Podlachia (Podlasie)—once the heart of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now a quiet region marked by layered histories.

They visit grand palaces, mosques, and forgotten synagogues, exploring the multicultural past of Podlachia. But the journey takes a somber turn as they reach a remote Tatar cemetery where recently buried graves belong not to local families, but to Muslim refugees who died crossing the Belarus-Poland border. What begins as a historical exploration ends in a confrontation with Europe’s present-day borders—and the people lost along the way.

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