Mr. Turski, a Polish journalist who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, urged the world not to be indifferent to the ...

Credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski With world leaders in the audience ... In September 1945, he returned to Poland, a committed communist who rejected an offer to go to the West and wanted to help ...

Polish artists of the period were also sensitive to the Maluch phenomenon. To some of them, the popular fascination with this new luxury was a resonance of new communist party leader Gierek's ...

In communist times, when shortages of all types of goods were ... The mission was indeed accomplished: Brezhnev, along with North Korean leader Kim Ir Sen and Polish leader Edward Gierek, got to see ...

Stanowski made the announcement in a satirical presidential address, paraphrasing former Polish communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski's December 1981 announcement of martial law in Poland.

“It is thanks to them that thousands of Polish women and men found shelter abroad in the difficult times of communist totalitarianism, and we have become one of the greatest beneficiaries of ...

Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland’s latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction ...

Walesa used a jumbo souvenir pen that bore a likeness of John Paul II. Five days leader, the Polish Communist Party axed its longtime leader, Edward Gierek. Various commentators have compared the ...