Former Polish President Lech Walesa appealed to senior European politicians Thursday to save the struggling Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement that he founded.

Polish prosecutors are raising the death toll from a fire that ripped through a homeless shelter in mid-April to 23 after DNA tests on the victims.

The remains of a Polish geologist beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan were returned Wednesday to Poland in a casket draped in the two countries’ flags and covered in flowers.

The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains the names of seven young people who probably thought they were doomed to die in the notorious Auschwitz death camp.

The roof has been removed and the windows stripped of their frames and glass. Piece by piece, workers are tearing down the former synagogue where a renowned rabbi served before fleeing the Soviet Union for New York in 1936.

Thousands of young Jews and elderly Holocaust survivors marched Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz to honor those who perished in the Holocaust, while an Israeli official condemned the Iranian president’s recent anti-Israel comments.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro impressed Pope John Paul II by reading up on his teaching and poetry ahead of their 1996 meeting at the Vatican, according to a new book on the late pontiff’s daily life.

A new exhibition by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw brings together photos and documents depicting the rich history of 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland.

Retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk was charged Wednesday with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder while working as a guard at a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland. The arrest warrant could move the 30-year global legal battle over his f

Poland’s president said Sunday he believes the U.S. will honor its agreement to build a missile defense base in his country, adding that scrapping the project to improve ties with Russia would be an unfriendly gesture toward Poland.