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A former textile manufacturing hub, the last century or so has been a mixed bag for Lodz, Poland. World War II saw Nazi occupation followed by the woes of the Cold War. The fall of the Soviet ...
‘Go back to Poland.” So chanted some of the pro-Hamas protesters at Columbia University in recent weeks. The message, directed at Jewish students, has stuck with me. I was born in ...
Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish destinations I’ve visited. I mention Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says.
Poland took in millions of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. But a vocal minority is trying to stoke tensions as Russian attacks threaten to prompt a new surge. By Andrew Higgins LODZ ...
The city of Łódź in central Poland has been featured among the top travel highlights and city breaks listed by the British daily The Independent. Its travel editor, Simon Calder, describes ...
(JTA) — Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to have been hidden in ...
We were so hungry we could have swallowed wood." Established in February 1940 after Germany conquered Poland, the Lodz ghetto imprisoned more than 160,000 Jews - Europe's second largest Jewish ...
Credit: Guliveris / Shutterstock. Five companies have submitted bids to construct what is claimed to be Poland’s longest railway tunnel on line no. 85 in Lodz, central Poland. The allocated budget is ...