Every year, a small group of Japanese students sign up for classes in the Polish Language and Culture Studies programme at the University of Tokyo. Alongside struggling to pronounce words like kiełbasa, second-year students are required...

Shortly before his death in 2009, Jolanta Dylewska interviewed Marek Edelman – a member of the Bund, and veteran of both the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising – about a somewhat surprising subject from his memoir of life during...

In the heart of the Polish lake district, the village of Stare Juchy has been pulled apart. Around one-third of its residents have migrated to Iceland for work. All that remains are their elderly parents, holding on to the hopeful sound...