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 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 ...

The question of Poland came closer than any other to uncovering what the Yalta conferees, each for his own reason, did not want to face: the gulf that separated Communist Russia from the democracies.

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 ...

Nuns murdered by Soviets in 1945 unearthed in Poland. Archaeologists in Poland recently discovered what are likely the ...

Four historic works of art, lost during World War II, have been formally returned to museums and libraries in Poznań, a city ...