The first and only openly gay member of Poland's parliament, Robert Biedron, was verbally harassed and assaulted during a gay pride event in Warsaw on Saturday.“An aggressive man insulted us, using homophobic statements. He began to choke one of...
The year is 2060 and a ramshackle little museum is hosting the first international exhibition ever on “Life in the Former European Union”, a period “when Brussels, not Warsaw, lay at the beating heart of the old continent.”...
"... in which a vastly outgunned band of 750 young Jews held off German soldiers for more than a month with crude arms and Molotov cocktails, died on May 9 in Montreal. He was 93."
“We didn’t have enough weapons, we didn’t have enough...
Juergen Stroop:
180 Jews, bandits and sub-humans, were destroyed. The former Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no longer in existence. The large-scale action was terminated at 20:15 hours by blowing up the Warsaw Synagogue…. Total number of Jews...
WARSAW, Poland – Official figures show that Poland’s economy barely grew in the first quarter of the year.
The Central Statistical Office said Tuesday that its preliminary data show the Polish economy was only 0.4 per cent bigger in the...
Russia's foreign minister says Moscow is "not planning to sell" an advanced air defense system to Syria.
Sergei Lavrov responded to questions Friday in Warsaw about a Wall Street Journal report that said a sale of Russia's S-300 missile batteries...
Russia's foreign minister says Moscow is "not planning to sell" an advanced air defense system to Syria.
Sergei Lavrov responded to questions Friday in Warsaw about a Wall Street Journal report that said a sale of Russia's S-300 missile batteries...
WARSAW, Poland – The National Bank of Poland has cut interest rates to a historic low as the economy continues to slow and inflation is below target.
The central bank cut its benchmark reference rate to 3 per cent from 3.5 per cent on...
A young woman writes:
7th May 1943: The ‘end of the world’ approaches in the Warsaw Ghetto: Five difficult and tragic days have passed. In this short time, we have had many experiences. Our living conditions were difficult from the moment we...
The
Daily Mail reports that Warsaw officials are in talks
to name one of the city’s roundabouts after Margaret Thatcher. One
council member is quoted as saying, “A roundabout is the perfect
way to represent Mrs. Thatcher. It makes...
Yesterday we pointed out Yale scholar Marci Shore's piece on the Times op-ed page about the Warsaw Ghetto resistance of the 1940s, and the ways in which this Jewish resistance was memorialized by Zionists as a foundational myth for the Jewish state....
Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale University, has a fascinating Op-Ed in today's New York Times on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The article uses the uprising to show how official history distorts and...
THE 19th of April 1943, exactly 70 years ago, saw the first insurrection against the Nazis in occupied Europe: the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The event symbolises both Jewish courage and Jewish suffering. For Poland, its anniversary is also a resonant...
President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Poland to attend the 70th Anniversary Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 2013.
The Honorable Stephen D. Mull, U.S....
Potentially. The Warsaw Stock Exchange and its Vienna-based peer said on Friday they are in talks on “mutual cooperation,” with a view to a deal that could create one of Europe’s larger equity trading platforms…. “At this...
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Poland’s able foreign minister, Radek Sikorski (who had a long association with NR), writes a thoughtful appreciation of the contribution that Margaret Thatcher made to the liberation of his country:
What...
Guest Post by Andrew Marcus - Director, Hating Breitbart
Yesterday was a very solemn day for Jews across the world as they marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising also known as Holocaust Memorial Day.
How did the Progressive...
Moscow is trying yet again to become a major financial center, but finds itself competing for business with other regional rivals like Warsaw. The city's government faces an uphill challenge, as midsize companies in neighboring Ukraine or other...
Spain's Banco Santander SA (SAN.MC) and Belgium's KBC Group NV (KBC.BT) have hired a consortium of investment banks to advise them on the planned share offering on the Warsaw Stock Exchange of Bank Zachodni WBK SA, the Polish bank said Monday.
