Poland honors Nobel nominee for holocaust heroism
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Poland&#39;s parliament declared a  97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving  more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World  War Two.
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Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, won the Nobel Prize in literature today for writing that "upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of ...
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Poland gave German-born Pope Benedict a  warm but sparse reception on Thursday as he began a visit to  honor his predecessor John Paul and help banish lingering  ghosts of &quot;that tragic tyranny&quot; of Nazi terror.
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Two Israelis and an American won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for helping to understand how the human body gives the "kiss of death" to rogue proteins to defend itself from diseases like cancer.
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Poland's parliament declared a 97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War Two.
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Remembering Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932-2007
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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was honoured Friday for her efforts to help women, clean up the environment and battle corruption.
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Octogenarians who fled Poland before their orphanage was forced into a ghetto are among the last links to Janusz Korczak, who inspired the declaration of childrenâs rights.
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World leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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A Polish woman who for 60 years had  been holding onto the diary of a young Jewish girl killed by  the Nazis in 1943, presented the journal to Israel&#39;s Holocaust  memorial on Monday.
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Slovenia is to honour two Pakistani pilots who carried out the daring rescue of a mountaineer.
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Forty government delegations will attend the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the Polish News Agency (PAP) reported on Wednesday.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev honored the singer once known as Cat Stevens with a peace prize on Wednesday, praising him for charity work and for standing by his convictions despite personal hardships.
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A Roman Catholic radio station that has been accused of anti-Semitism and criticized by the Vatican was praised Thursday by the prime minister as a source of 'comfort and hope' for Poles.Comment
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Nobel-prize winning poet Czeslaw Milosz was buried alongside some of Poland's most famous cultural figures, amid controversy over his contribution to the country and the Roman Catholic faith.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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WARSAW -- Jewish community leaders and Warsaw officials lighted the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital yesterday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland. Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, chanted Hebrew prayers as he and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Andrzej Urbanski were lifted by an industrial crane to the top of ...