The Associated Press has joined The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and Yahoo! Inc., in changing their Stylebook regarding concentration camps. According to David Minthorn, Deputy Standards Editor and AP Stylebook co-editor, the new entry in The AP Stylebook reads as follows: concentration camps For World War II camps [...]

WARSAW — For all that Poland has accomplished since the fall of the Iron Curtain, it has long resisted fully coming to terms with its Communist past — the oppression, the spying, even the massacres. Society preferred to forget, to move on. So it may come as a surprise that Poland and many of its [...]

Enjoy Poland through eyes of others! What’s special about Poland? Together with Val Kilmer, Natalie Portman, Russell Crowe and many other world celebrities discover the uniqueness of Poland! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-p8PGn3CI&feature=share Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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Area Poles rally around bill to ease visa restrictions Saturday, May 21, 2011 Last updated: Saturday May 21, 2011, 1:02 PM BY MATTHEW MALYSA AND JOHN C. ENSSLIN The Record Staff Writers Local Polish-Americans are hoping that a bill pending in Congress will make it easier for their relatives to visit them from Poland. The [...]

The Kosciuszko Foundation petition gets results: Dear Mr. Storozynski: After further discussions of the concerns raised by you and others, Times editors have decided to add an entry to the newsroom’s stylebook specifically cautioning journalists to avoid misleading phrases like “Polish concentration camp.” As we have already pointed out, editors immediately took steps to correct [...]

The New York Times corrected its caption under a picture posted on its website and referred to by Mr. Storozynski’s letter below explaining that it was a mistake to place Dachau in Poland. See the link to the page with the caption: EditorTop, Qadhi and other American Muslim clerics pray at the Dachau concentration camp [...]

February 18, 2011 United States, Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Background Note: Poland   Official Name: Republic of Poland PROFILE Geography Area: 312,683 sq. km. (120,725 sq. mi.); about the size of New Mexico. Cities (2008): Capital –Warsaw (pop. 1,709,800). Other cities –Lodz (747,200), Krakow (754,600), Wroclaw (632,400), Poznan (557,200), Gdansk [...]

Gazprom Keeps Grip on Polish Pipeline by Marcin Sobczyk and Marynia Kruk http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/10/27/gazprom-keeps-grip-on-polish-pipeline Poland and Russia finalize major gas deal by Andrew Rettman The Polish government has finalized the small-print of a major new gas deal with Russia, paving the way for an official signature in the coming days. http://euobserver.com/9/31138/?rk=1 Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]