On the night of 21 September 1940, a train wagon full of prisoners rolled up to the gates of Auschwitz.
After being forced out of the wagon and beaten senseless, the inmates were stripped, tattooed and photographed before being herded into filthy, cramped huts.
Included among the new arrivals was Witold Pilecki, who, unlike his fellow prisoners, was there through choice.
A member of Poland’s main resistance organisation, the AK, Pilecki had wanted to find out more about leaked news
Wild mushrooms are a tempting treat but dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s true whether you’re eating them or using them to score political points, Jarosław Kaczyński has found.
The Polish éminence grise, who leads the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and is arguably the country’s de facto ruler, on Sunday accused the opposition of allowing the EU to dictate forest management policy, which he said would trample on the national pastime of foraging for
Poland late Saturday halted shipping oil through part of the Druzhba pipeline, which carries oil from Russia to Europe, after a leak was detected, Polish pipeline operator PERN said.
The incident comes amid heightened concerns about the security of Europe’s energy infrastructure after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year and following attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines that run from Russia to Europe.
The leak was detected in the municipality of Chodecz in central Poland on “one of the
Russia’s Wagner Group might carry out “sabotage actions” and their threat should not be underestimated, said Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, warning that the mercenary group’s provocations are an attempt to destabilize NATO.
Morawiecki and Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda met at the Suwałki Gap to discuss the threat posed by the Wagner forces, some of whom have relocated to Belarus following the aborted mutiny in June against the Kremlin.
“Our borders have been stopping various hybrid attacks for
Ukraine summoned the Polish ambassador on Tuesday over “unacceptable” comments made by a senior official in the Polish president’s office, who said Ukraine was ungrateful for the country’s help.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited Polish ambassador Bartosz Cichocki to Kyiv to discuss the comments made on Monday by Marcin Przydacz, secretary of state in the chancellery of Poland’s president and head of the international policy bureau.
“During the meeting, it was emphasized that the statements about the alleged ingratitude
At a time when two of the world’s most powerful tech titans are looking to have a cage fight,
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A group of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus has moved closer to the Polish border and may stage a “hybrid attack” inside the EU country by posing as illegal migrants, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned.
Speaking at a press conference in southern Poland on Saturday, Morawiecki said that more than 100 mercenaries had moved close to the city of Grodno, near the Suwałki Gap — a narrow strategic stretch of Polish and Lithuanian territory that separates Belarus from the Russian
Sugar daddies are wolfing caviar blinis. Bottles of Moet are flowing in nightclubs. All perfectly normal in Sopot on the Polish Riviera.
This seaside town has had a South of France feel ever since Frenchman Jean Haffner founded a sauna and beach cabins here in 1823.
The big difference from Cannes or Nice — aside from the temperature — is that everything is remarkably good value. I’m staying at the Sofitel Grand Sopot hotel in the heart of the resort,
Hundreds of women in Poland protested outside police stations Tuesday to oppose the allegedly ruthless way officers treated a woman who had taken an abortion pill.
The protests in Krakow, Warsaw and some other cities were intended to show solidarity with the woman and to condemn police shaming practices.
The woman, identified publicly only as Joanna, has told Polish media outlets that police surrounded her and searched her belongings as she was preparing for an obstetrician to examine her at
