Poland Travel News

EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes is in Poland on a two-day visit to see for herself the state of affairs at the Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards.

Polish part of Tatra Mountains offers beautiful views, charming valleys and transparent lakes that form a gateway for numerous city dwellers.

As Ivor Lichterman led prayers at Warsawa s only pre-war synagogue, he was a oeovercome with awea to be standing where his father led the last services before the Holocaust wiped out 1,000 years of Jewish history.

The 24-year-old painter sits in a little bar in Kazimierz, Krakow's historic Jewish quarter.

Each year migratory birds find their way home. Only cranes in my mind are somehow always flying far off into the horizon.

THIS article was written by Headlands School pupil Hannah Emmerson. Along with Scott Palmer, she went to Auschwitz recently through the Holocaust Educational Trust.

In the 1980s Poland's burgeoning Solidarity movement made the port of Gdansk the best-known - " and certainly most filmed and photographed - " place in the country.

Nearly 80 years ago this week, more than 10,000 Jews from across Poland gathered in Lublin for what would prove to be one of their last major festive events prior to the Holocaust.

'Underlying socio-political and economic roots of terrorism need to be addressed.

When Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel applied to immigrate to Israel as a Jew under the Law of Return last October, Israeli authorities delayed responding to his request for months.

The Baltic beaches have a distinctly Mediterranean feel - but at budget prices. Ruby Warrington visits Sopot Ruby Warrington Sopot is one of the cities of the Tri-City area - or Polish Riviera - and flooded with tourists from all over Poland and Germany during the summer months.

A TEAM of police officers from Poland were treated to lunch at South Shields Town Hall during a special visit.

Religious Life Submitted by Beth Rosenberg Sanders on 2009-06-11.   On June 29, 2009, Emanuel Synagogue Cantor Sanford Cohn and Ritual Director Moshe Pinchover will join approximately 100 fellow cantors and lovers of hazzanut in Warsaw, Poland, to kick off a historic gathering.

A visit to a former pharmacy in Krakow, Poland, became a poignant moment of a trip with my husband to Eastern Europe.

Leaders from around the continent gathered in Krakow on Thursday to mark 20 years since Poland's first partly free elections which swept the anti-communist movement Solidarnosc to power.

As you read this, I am over the Atlantic in a cramped airplane seat, not eating my Air Canada meal and lucklessly trying to sleep.

By Edward Pentin ROME, JUNE 4, 2009 .- An event which took place 30 years ago this week would change the world forever.

Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the "very modest" demands of Nazi Germany.

Twenty years ago today postwar Poland conducted its first so-called partially free elections, in which the ruling Communist Party suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Solidarity.

The unequal towers of 15th-century St Mary's Church dominate the eastern corner of the Rynek Glowny.