With neoclassical architecture in ice-cream hues, candlelit Chopin concerts, and bygone confectioneries on every corner, ...

Fancy a trip to Europe but worried about the cost? Try the route less travelled and head for Poland, the affordable heart of ...

ROMAN Polanski movie masterpiece The Pianist ends with the protagonist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, emerging from hiding into the ...

Ruth Posner, who has died in Switzerland aged 96, narrowly survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto and, later, from a train bound for Auschwitz. A Polish Jew, she spent the latter ...

The couple, who were married for 75 years, sent an email to family and friends to inform them of their decision.

The World After Gaza by Pankkaj Mishra (Fern Press, London) 2025 (First part of this article appeared in The Island yesterday ...

The field behind Jan Michalak's farmhouse hosts a magnificent stand of giant sunflowers, and every weekend he cuts some of them down to decorate the grave of his wife, Danuta, who died four years ago.

The story of Franceska Mann, the 26-year-old ballerina who started a riot when fighting for her life at the hands of Nazi ...

This week’s Summerville Reads picks feature a dazzling interactive edition of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” an ...

Tens of thousands of people joined a pro-Palestinian march in central London on Saturday, a day after a ceasefire between ...

As the Democratic socialist was escorted by security toward his vehicle hurriedly, the man followed closely, the video showed, demanding that Mamdani denounce Hezbollah and Sharia law.

Chopin, born in Warsaw, Poland, left his homeland at 20 and died in Paris at 39. Chopin learned of a citizen uprising against ...