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Thomas Swick’s “Christmas in Communist Poland” (op-ed, Dec. 24) brings back memories of my first trip to Warsaw, Christmas week, 1981. I was new to my job as head of First Chicago’s ...
Supply-chain problems and looming shortages have some Americans in a panic. But the specter of a more austere holiday season put me in mind of the three Christmases I spent in communist Poland ...
Victoria, a Ukrainian refugee, is celebrating Orthodox Christmas in Poland with a simple prayer - that next year she will be back at home.
One of them is Polish vegetable salad. George Burzynski prepares Polish vegetable salad at home, one of the 12 traditional dishes served for Wigilia dinner, on Christmas Eve.
There is a tiny Christmas tree on the windowsill above Kateryna's bed. A modest substitute for the one she, her husband and their three children would have had at home in Ukraine. "War, no war, ...
The Wigilia , or Polish Christmas Eve Dinner, continues to be a solemnly celebrated occasion In Polish households here in the USA and worldwide and brings families together.
POLAND — Santa is coming to town a little early this year for children in the village, thanks to two parents who are working to bring their community together while honoring their daughter’s ...
My Polish great-uncle was pastor of a Polish church, and all four of my grandparents' children brought their own families to Grandpa's house for Christmas dinner.
In 1947, after seven years of service in the British Royal Air Force, Paul Bernard Grieger decided to visit his parents in Poland for Christmas. It turned out to be a long visit. Two weeks ago ...
ZAGAN, Poland - The sound of Christmas carols gently bounced off of the walls of a modest auditorium in Swietoszow, Poland. The songs, reminiscent of what you'd expect to hear in the U.S., had a ...
A Christmas concert presented in English, Polish and Spanish in 2018 at three churches is being reprised and performed at nine houses of worship this holiday season. “It was well-received. We… ...