Lublin, Poland News

Akmal Shaikh's journey from a minicab business in north London to death row in a remote part of north-west China is a labyrinthine tale involving eastern European gangsters, harebrained business schemes and a dream of international pop stardom.

Barbara Czarny-Karas, who now lives in Cotham, was a teenage member of the clandestine Polish Army at the time of the Warsaw uprising in 1944.

For a special treat this holiday season, try looking into the wide world of mead.

Next week, John Demjanjuk will stand trial in Germany accused of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp, built by the Nazis in Poland.

Ever since I was a child, I was always curious about the house in Staszow, Poland, where my grandparents lived.

Amani Saini Published on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 7:40PM EST P inchas Gutter stands at the Majdanek concentration camp, on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, looking at a mausoleum that contains the ashes of cremated Holocaust victims.

Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine have signed a letter of intent to form a multinational military brigade.

A young Holocaust victim has been brought back to life on the Internet. As a virtual figure, a young Jewish boy from Poland writes about his life during the Second World War - and he's looking for friends on Facebook.

An expert in forgery and master of replication, Robert Kusmirowski's installations of scenes from history are as unsettling as they are detailed One track mind ... Robert Kusmirowski's Bunker at the Curve gallery, Barbican For artist Robert Kusmirowski, the devil's in the details.

Gdynia-based developer Polnord is preparing for its first residential project in Lublin, in southeastern Poland.

Baffled bank staff refused to fork out cash when a robber threatened them - with a spoon.

Baffled bank staff refused to fork out cash when a robber threatened them - with a spoon...... Baffled bank staff refused to fork out cash when a robber threatened them - with a spoon.

The University of Notre Dame will host a conference, "Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity and God," on Nov.

For a broad overview of the market in Poland, Polish market Online is the news service of choice.

The new stories and photographs recently added to the permanent panels at the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, broaden the vignettes of the Jewish people with ties to this area who were exterminated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.

Shabbat will come to a Polish synagogue for the first time since the Holocaust. Services will be held Friday night and Saturday at the Kielce synagogue, which was reconstructed after World War II and since 1951 has been used as the district archives.

LUBLIN, Poland, OCT. 1, 2009 .- The president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum will be recognized for his theological contributions with the award of an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Lublin.

Poland's fixation with the past is inevitable in a country that has had to forge its identity over centuries of being torn to pieces.

The company is Fiat and its car plant in Tychy, Poland is adding 300 workers to its 6000-strong workforce.

TOPICS: History KEYWORDS: milhist ; realtime ; worldwarii First session: September 1, 2009.