As ‘Ida’ Wins an Oscar, Poland Ends a Losing Streak
WARSAW — The utter tenacity with which the director Pawel Pawlikowski talked and talked and refused to be shooed off stage by the Oscar orchestra has been matched only by…
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Chevron to Abandon Shale Natural Gas Venture in Poland
LONDON — Chevron said on Friday that it would abandon efforts to find and produce natural gas from shale rock in Poland, in perhaps the biggest setback yet to fledgling…
Rome Jewish Leader Triggers Police Intervention at Auschwitz
WARSAW, Poland — The head of Rome’s Jewish community and four others were questioned by police after triggering an alarm at the visitor’s center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. –…
Outliving Horror for 70 Years and Never Forgetting
OSWIECIM, Poland — More than 3,000 guests, including Holocaust survivors and foreign dignitaries, gathered on Tuesday at a site marking one of history’s biggest horrors, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in…
Survivors Visit Auschwitz A Day Ahead Of 70th Anniversary
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…