For those of us born in the last years of Poland’s communist regime, all things American were an object of worship. The United States represented an unreachable paradise for those who lived behind the ...

Rulers of the communist regime eagerly reached for folk styles as ... Postcard from 1945, photo: National Library / Polona.pl Similar ‘secular’ motifs appeared on Christmas cards, often created by ...

The extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II took place largely in occupied Poland. But for many Poles, ...

On a summer morning in 1926, a lovesick 15-year-old on an aristocratic estate in Poland survived a drunken ... In that exploration of Communism’s poisonous allure, he surveyed the intellectual ...

which played an important role in the collapse of communism in Poland." CNN Travel adds that Gdańsk, which was completely rebuilt after World War II, has emerged as “one of Poland’s most ...