Markowa, Poland — An obscure village in a remote corner of southeast Poland, the kind you can drive through in less than a minute, was in the spotlight recently. On March 17, an array of personalities descended on Markowa for the […]
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A divided Poland is holding three days of ceremonies to mark the 1,050th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity, signalling a new era of even closer ties between the national conservative government and the Catholic Church. On Friday, political …
Happy 1,050th birthday, Poland! On this day in 966, the Polish ruler converted to Christianity, transforming Poland into a recognized European state. Poland had existed prior to this in some form, of course. As the Roman Empire collapsed in the […]
A court in Poland on Monday refused to drop a case against two British teenagers caught stealing from the Nazi Auschwitz death camp and has referred it to a lower court. Initially, the 17-year-old teenagers from Hertfordshire, in southern England, […]
The tragic story of the Ulma family – parents Wiktoria and Jozef, along with their six children – who were murdered by the Nazis for hiding Jews, highlights the complexity of Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust. For a few, it […]
Archaeologists claim they have uncovered structures in the north of the country that could be as old as 3000BC. Experts say the discoveries – found near the village of Słonowice – are triangular megalithic tombs varying in sizes made using […]
Newly-publicised documents have revived claims Lech Walesa, the giant of Poland’s struggle to overthrow communism, was a secret police informant in the 1970s – allegations still fuelling an old feud among post communist leaders. Poland’s ruling conservatives, led by Jaroslaw […]
Lech Walesa, the former Polish president credited with helping to bring down the eastern bloc, has admitted he made a “mistake” after his signature was found on a document saying he had agreed to work as an informant for the […]
The gospels are full of details that the Catholic Church prefers to overlook. Like the references to Saint Peter, the first Pope, having a mother-in-law, and therefore a wife. The texts don’t ever reveal what happened to Mrs Peter. Her […]
Alan Turing could not have cracked the Enigma Code without the help of Polish mathematicians and it is time to “right the wrong” and acknowledge their contribution, the Polish government has said. Deciphering the German system is believed to have […]