Russia’s ambassador to Poland withdraws assertion that Poland was partially responsible for the 1939 Nazi invasion and the outbreak of the Second World War. Russia’s ambassador to Warsaw has withdrawn comments he made suggesting Poland was partly responsible for the […]
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WHEN European Union interior ministers met on Monday to discuss a plan to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers between them, Poland, the largest and most powerful of the EU’s central and eastern members, quietly helped to shelve it. Unlike other central […]
Article about the beauty of Warsaw in “The Windsor Star”: Warsaw, the capital of Poland, doesn’t appear at the top of many European travellers’ wish lists. But that’s just one reason you may want to visit. With evocative sights, an […]
Poland’s warring president and prime minister have separately marked the 35th anniversary of a key deal between striking workers and communist authorities that opened the way to democracy. The ceremonies were held Monday in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, […]
A Polish official says ground-penetrating radar images have left him “99% convinced” that a World War Two German military train is buried near the south-western city of Walbrzych.Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said images appeared to show a train equipped […]
No matter which country we are talking about, castles are the type of historical sites that represent its history and architecture in the most accessible way. As a result of changes in fashion and artistic trends, many of them are eclectic in […]
According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold, artworks and weapons vanished into a mountain at the end of World War II, as the Germans fled the Soviet advance. Now two men claim they know the location of […]
The first Pole known to have taken part in a suicide attack on behalf of the Islamic State was revealed on Wednesday as Jacek S., who died in a suicide bomb attack on June 13, reports tvn24.pl.According to unofficial sources […]
Lea Evron, a Holocaust survivor from Whitestone, Queens, has fought for years to win back title to the apartment building in Zywiec, Poland, her parents lost in the Holocaust. She finally won back the title in court, but the Polish […]
Lifted out of the water, a huge blue ferry towers over the quay, its propeller suspended in mid-air above brick warehouses. Workers in overalls and red helmets scurry about, as cranes tilt and swing into action. These shipyards were once […]