As a visitor to a country it’s often difficult to pick up on the politics. Your experience ends up dominated by the tourist sites, and if you don’t speak the language then television news and newspapers are a brick wall. Thankfully, there was plenty of politics to be picked up in Poland, if you looked [...]
How much should we memorialise tragic events? Poland is home to many of the landmarks of horror associated with the Nazis. But of these arguably the two most notorious are memorialised in very different ways. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the concentration and extermination camps where over a million Jews, gypsies, communists, trade unionists and lesbians and gays [...]
