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Warsaw Marks 70th Anniversary Of Ghetto Uprising

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 04.19.2013 | World

WARSAW, Poland -- Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in Warsaw as largely Roman Catholic Poland paid homage Friday to the Jewish fighters who rose ...

Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Recalls Hell

AP | BY MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 04.18.2013 | World

WARSAW, Poland -- Jakub Gutenbaum still squirms at the thought of scalding-hot walls in the basement where he hid while houses burned overhead during ...

Warsaw Ghetto Museum Reflects A Changing Poland

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 04.16.2013 | World

WARSAW, Poland -- Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a few buildings here and there, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The re...

New Year's Eve Travel Inspiration

John Nicholson | Posted 03.01.2013 | Travel
John Nicholson

After some great domestic parties ringing in the new year and a number of adventurous international countdowns, I'm now in search of new opportunities to raise the bar and feed the continuing addiction to amazing blowout New Year's Eve celebrations.

The Delights Of Warsaw

Christina Kelly | Posted 02.28.2013 | Travel
Christina Kelly

After 12 hours of traveling instead of the expected three, we finally made it to Warsaw. The next morning, refreshed, we finally got to experience the many delights of Warsaw.

Statue Of Praying Hitler In Ex-Warsaw Ghetto Sparks Emotion

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 02.27.2013 | World

WARSAW, Poland — A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were kill...

Drought Reveals River's Bloody Past

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 09.17.2012 | World

While record drought is usually not a good thing, it's been a boon to archeologists in Poland. The Vistula River, which flows through Warsaw, has r...

Track Records: Startled Awake In St. Petersburg

Benedict Cooper | Posted 09.16.2012 | Travel
Benedict Cooper

When Povilas came back he had a shot glass, a bottle of Jack Daniels and a packet of Marlboro Red in his hands. God help me, I thought.

Track Records: Warsaw's Unexplored Other Half

Benedict Cooper | Posted 09.02.2012 | Travel
Benedict Cooper

Largely saved from the type of mass destruction the war left in the West of Warsaw, Praga still has most of its original architecture. Ironically, it's older than the old town.

Track Records: Poznan, Poland, Is Tough And Freaky

Benedict Cooper | Posted 09.01.2012 | Travel
Benedict Cooper

I must admit, I hadn't heard of Die Antwoord before.

It's Raining Poems! 100,000 Of Them.

The Huffington Post | Hallie Sekoff | Posted 06.26.2012 | Home

Tonight London will be hit by a poetry storm -- that’s right, it will be raining poetry. Chilean arts collective Casagrande will drop 100,000 poems ...

Violent Clashes Between Soccer Fans At Euro 2012

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 08.12.2012 | Sports

WARSAW, Poland — Soccer hooligans clashed with opposing fans and police before and during Poland's game against bitter rival Russia on Tuesday, ...

Warsaw Fires Architect Of Planned Art Museum

AP | Posted 07.18.2012 | Arts

WARSAW, Poland — Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the w...

Vandals Deface Holocaust Monument

AP/The Huffington Post | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 11.02.2011 | Arts

WARSAW, Poland (Associated Press) -- Vandals desecrated a monument marking the spot in Poland where hundreds of Jews were burned alive during World Wa...

Poland's Winter Death Toll Mounts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WARSAW, Poland — Police say 200 people have frozen to death in Poland this winter. Most victims were either homeless or under the influence of ...

Africa's Youths United Can Never be Defeated

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Alemayehu G. Mariam

Mubarak, Irhal! A specter is haunting Africa and the Middle East - the specter of an awesome army of youths on the move, in revolt, marching for free...

Pass the John Tyner Bill: Get Government Off Our Backs and Out of Our Buttocks

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jay Michaelson

Air travelers will soon be required to have a naked image of themselves beamed to a security agent. Israelis don't do this, Europeans doesn't do this -- why are we being asked to do it?

Sara May Bikini PHOTOS: Polish Pop Singer Katarzyna Szczolek Uses Hot Shots For Warsaw Election Campaign

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

A Polish singer says she is determined to break out of pop music and into local politics -- so much so that she's taken to distributing scintillating ...

The media's slander of Poland: Ignorance, lazy editing, or malicious libel?

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Alex Storozynski

The New York-born Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says, "Accusing Poles of participation in the Holocaust is a sin." Yet on a regular basis...

Former Nazi Death Camp Ravaged By Fire

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WARSAW, Poland — A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 1...

Poland Orders Mossad Spy Suspect Extradited

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WARSAW, Poland — An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative will be extradited to Germany, a Polish court ruled...

Why Obama Should Attend President Lech Kaczynski's Funeral

Dominika Jaworski | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Dominika Jaworski

Maintaining strong diplomatic relations and friendship in a time of profound national grief with Poland can be accomplished easily: President Obama should attend President Kaczynski's funeral.

Poland Flooding: 9 Dead As Warsaw Officials Fight Flood (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Flooding in Poland continues to be an issue, just three days after thousands were forced to evacuate their homes and the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial s...

Polish Police Recover 11 Tons Of Stolen US Blood Plasma

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WARSAW, Poland — Polish police recovered 11 tons of human blood plasma that had been stolen from a U.S. company and was on its way to Austria, o...

Swedish man suspected in Auschwitz sign theft

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

WARSAW - A still unidentified resident of Sweden is suspected of being the middle man in the brazen theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei ("Work Set...