A former textile manufacturing hub, the last century or so has been a mixed bag for Lodz, Poland. World War II saw Nazi ...

Whether it’s the first or 50th trip to Europe, travellers are always forced to answer a rather difficult question: “Where should we go?” This is because the European Union is home to 27 countries and ...

All images in this article are from the Collection of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland in the deposit E. Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw An exhibition of art ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it’s also worth a documentary inspired by one. That would be director Slawomir Grünberg’s moving and evocative “Still Life in Lodz,” which centers around a ...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they created walled-off ghettos in the larger cities to concentrate and imprison the Jewish residents. Henryk Ross worked as a news and sports photographer in ...

For decades, Leon Sutton kept the photographs hidden away in an unassuming envelope, 48 documents that offer an astonishing portrait of life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland during the Second World ...

The Polish city of Lodz is to hold a major Holocaust memorial ceremony on Sunday dedicated to the thousands of Jews and Roma persecuted by the Nazis in the ghetto there during World War II. BBC News ...

Between 1940 and 1944, Zylberberg worked on a loom in the Lodz ghetto, the longest-surviving and most profitable of Poland's dozens of ghettos, or "death boxes," as Himmler called them. Zylberberg ...

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This documentary examines how objects can create through lines across history. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

A teenager in Lodz, Poland hacked the city's tram system with a homemade transmitter that tripped rail switches and redirected trains, a prank that derailed four trams and injured a dozen people.