This text addresses the general question of how medicine-based objects—for example, leg-braces, crutches, orthopaedic boots, and corsets—were included in the daily-life routines of so-called ...

Numbers correspond to timeline events and locations. Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other ...

THE naked rooms stood up in the air as if on stilts. Under them, over them, around them probed searching blasts of the December wind. These two rooms, a kitchen and a bedroom, were all that was left ...

“I think Poland was the freest country of the East bloc,” says Aneta Prasal, one of the four curators of “In Between: Art From Poland, 1945-2000,” which opens Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center ...

The FSB published letters from engineer Nikolay Demyanchik, the son of a priest, addressed to Patriarch Alexy, of Moscow and All Russia, and Metropolitan John, of Kiev and Galicia, describing the ...

An aerial view of Poland's "Death Valley," where the Nazis carried out mass executions during World War II D. Frymark Researchers in Poland have uncovered evidence of a Nazi massacre that took place ...

‘Treason!’: Michael compares the betrayal of the Confederacy with the attack on January 6 Fed official sends bold 5-word message on September interest rate cuts Tulane head coach has choice words for ...

Two Polish historians of the Holocaust, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, are fighting a court ruling that pronounced them guilty of defaming a long-deceased Polish village official. Grabowski and ...

Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation In this gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a lightning-rod debate over what was allowed to be ...