In what was once Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto, the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a new museum dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland, opened this week. The institution offers a reminder of ...

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Rescuers clear debris on July 26 from around a cultural center building damaged by shelling in Chuhuiv, Ukraine. (Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Perspective by ...

What story should a museum tell? That question can be more complicated than you might think—especially when a museum is tasked with confronting dark chapters in history. Now, reports Vanessa Gera for ...

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 ...

History is rattling Ukraine-Poland relations, yet again. The new round of historical grievances erupted in Poland when President Volodymyr Zelensky named a Ukrainian special forces unit after the ...

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 ...

Three decades ago, just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era of hope and promise in Europe, Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland made the historical drama “Europa, Europa,” ...

Wallington covers only a square mile, but its Polish community has an enormous presence. The Polish culture has been preserved through restaurants and delis, parades, picnics and community events that ...