May 27, 2022
Red Beer: The Tatras
In 2013, myself and a friend traveled from Romania to the Polish Tatra Mountains, by way of Lviv and western Ukraine. The Russian invasion of…
August 17, 2020
The People Before Us
While walking through Auschwitz and Birkenau, a traveler reflects on the strangeness of visiting a place so many once wanted to leave. I wanted to…
September 17, 2017
Three Minutes in Poland – Interview with Glenn Kurtz
A few years ago, writer Glenn Kurtz was conducting research for a novel when he came across an old video, recorded by his grandfather in…
April 8, 2015
Wraiths of the Milk Bar
We walked into the doors of the milk bar (bar mleczny) and immediately felt like we'd stepped back 40 years to when Poland quivered under the…
