Her provocative buildings emerged from the experimentation of the downtown arts scene — and this year, the architect is back ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

It’s a melting pot of cultural influences, from cuisine to architecture – and offers everything from summer sunshine and ...

They were born in a hell on Earth and were never supposed to survive. But by some miracle a handful of babies born in ...

Arie (Leopold) Durst was born in 1933 in Lwów, Poland (today Ukraine ... Cold and starving, he slept on a wooden bunk in an abandoned cowshed. The children were expected to meet a daily labor ...

Of the village's 500 inhabitants ... French and Czech children were killed by gas at Chelmo, Poland. Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave “The traditionalist side of the Catholic ...

Finally, in June 1930 the success of the treaty hinged upon the action of a single state, Poland. Her decision not to ratify deprived ... was the announcement in November that Great Britain had ...

Here are some of the TV highlights coming up in the next week starting Saturday, April 19, including Who Do You Think You Are ...

THE Aryan myth is not an invention of the Nazis. These neo-Teutons merely exploited a widely-held German belief which dates ...

Fleeing Russia’s invasion of Poland, Frédéric Chopin sought safety ... Chopin was fascinated with village music, and he used this language as a base, as a crucial idea for many, many of ...

A taxi whisked me 150 miles east from Krakow, Poland, toward the border town of ... “would ride through the villages looking for icons and find them tossed on the ground.” ...

Near the village of Ponar, the vehicle came to a halt ... a Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland. Unusually for a man in his profession, he rarely puts trowel to earth.