In Spain, daylight saving time begins on the last Sunday of March. This year it’s on Sunday March 30th 2025 and means that ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s massive Yiddish archive.

As NATO's future grows uncertain and Russian threats escalate, Poland expands its military, the Baltics fortify their ...

When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s massive Yiddish archive. In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined ...

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

In the 1940s, large-scale excavations in Guatemala ... the figurines found by Jan Szymański and his colleagues at the University of Warsaw are unlike any previously found across the region.

YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.

The process for her beatification was launched by the Archdiocese of Warsaw in 2020 ... phase of Sister Wanda’s sufferings began in the 1940s. The area where she was born was seized from ...

Trump’s return has left Europe’s main military pact looking less assured. Now defence is being reshaped on the continent.

During the Cold War, US troops on the continent were there as a deterrent to any Soviet ambitions to expand the Warsaw Pact alliance and eventually saw out its end when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.