Author: Monika Scislowska
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Chopin lovers can’t meet their hero, but this pianist got to do the next best thing
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The winner of the 2nd Frederic Chopin Competition on Period Instruments all but traveled through time to commune with the Romantic-era piano virtuoso and composer on the day marked as his birthday
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Ukrainian refugees find jobs, kindness, as they settle in
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WARSAW, Poland • Nataliya Hibska quickly brushes her teeth and makes the bed. She is rushing to her new job. From a small hostel room in eastern Warsaw, Hibska, a Ukrainian refugee, is slowly rebuilding her life, which was abruptly upended by Russia’s invasion of her homeland. European Union member nations like Poland and Romania…
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Lightning strikes kill 5, injure over 100 in Tatra Mountains
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WARSAW, Poland • Lightning struck across the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland and neighboring Slovakia on Thursday, killing five people and injuring over 100 in an area popular with hikers and families, authorities said. Witnesses said the thunderstorm came suddenly on a day that began with clear weather. The lightning strikes pummeled Poland’s Giewont peak,…
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Poland: Man charged, detained in escape room deaths
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WARSAW, Poland • Prosecutors in northern Poland detained and brought charges Sunday against the man who designed an escape room entertainment site where five teenage girls were killed in a fire. The man, identified only as Milosz S., was charged with intentionally creating a fire danger and unintentionally causing the deaths of the girls, said…
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Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
WARSAW, Poland — Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael…
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Fort Carson armored unit to spearhead accelerated U.S. deployment to Poland
WARSAW, Poland — The United States has decided to accelerate the deployment of troops to Poland, the Baltic states and Romania as part of raising the security of the region, Polish and U.S. defense officials said Wednesday Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz made the announcement following talks with the commander of U.S. land troops in…
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Russia points to human error in crash
WARSAW, Poland – Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying Monday that were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane. The Tu-154 went down while trying to land Saturday in dense fog near Smolensk airport in western Russia. All…