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

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...

In Poland, postwar Communist rule has few defenders. But state-subsidized eateries known as milk bars, designed under state ...

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.

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 ...

The leaders of Poland’s influential Catholic Church on ... during World War II and during more than 40 years of Moscow-controlled communist rule, until 1989. From news to politics, travel ...