Poland News News Poland » History: World Heritage Series: A Stroll Through the Ancient Capital of Krakow, Poland
To the "Kyoto of Poland." Passing through the city walls, from the Main Market Square where white horse-drawn carriages come and go, to Wawel Castle.Memories from June 2017.I arrived by bus in the ...
News Poland » History: Poland’s Ruling Party Puts an Extraordinary Museum of Polish-Jewish History into Limbo
Dariusz Stola met me at a coffee shop in Warsaw. He was wearing a flannel shirt and he was unshaven. It was Sunday, but this was more than a couple of days’ worth of stubble. Stola may or may not be ...
News Poland » History: Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity. WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former ...
News Poland » History: Anne Applebaum: Jews celebrate their place in Poland’s history
In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, a reconstruction of a wooden 17th century synagogue once located in Gwozdziec, a formerly Polish town in Ukraine, at the POLIN Museum of the History of ...
News Poland » History: Poland and Russia Can’t Stop Arguing Over History. Does it Matter?
RZESZÓW, Poland — In a quiet park in the center of this southern Polish city, tourists stop to read a plaque commemorating the lives lost in a “1,000-year struggle for freedom” and gaze at the ...
News Poland » History: Poland’s right-wing government is rewriting history — with itself as hero
Poland is in the midst of a pitched battle over its collective memory. The ruling party has recently stirred an international controversy by passing a bill criminalizing the use of the phrase “Polish ...