Geographically Yours

The placid landscape and blue skies do not capture the horrors that took place here during World War II. This was Auschwitz, established ...

Nidzica is one of hundreds of castles that still dot the Polish landscape. Don't we all wish we lived in a castle right now? Self-suf...

Landscapes, still lifes, and portraits: all on the wall. To which one are your eyes drawn? Probably, the portrait. And, you are probably ask...

Janusz Korczak and his orphaned children met their deaths in the gas chambers at Treblinka in 1942. From the Warsaw ghetto, they were her...

Pediatrician and children's author Janusz Korczak ran an orphanage in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto during World War II. In 1942, he ref...

Caryatids: three of them. They are wearing the prescribed vestments for their ilk. As the bronze personifications of faith, hope, and lov...

How could a palm tree be growing in the center of Warsaw? Totally ageographical. Upon inspection, however, you will discover nothing more...

Copernicus: He's Poland's heliocentric hero. The uplifted armillary sphere symbolizes his seminal contribution to our scientific ...