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Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People. United States: Yale University Press, 1999. [Anti-Jewish Congress in 1944...] p. 231: Egypt: Fakoussa, Hassan, journalist and anti­-Jewish writer. p. 226: When the date finally had been set for July 11­-15, 1944, and the preparations were in full swing, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in the middle of June in the name of the Führer ordered, “on the basis of the military developments,” postponement of the congress until the beginning of September. Apparently, Hitler’s alter ego felt that by September the invasion armies would have been forced...

I wanted to go to Belzec (pronounced Biwzhets) because no one really does. One million Jews died there in the span of nine months - and hardly anyone knows about it. I felt it was a pilgrimage to a holy site: the second largest (after Treblinka) Jewish graveyard in history. Mike Tregenza was my guide. He is a non-Jewish, English historian who lectures at Lublin university. According to Sir Martin Gilbert, he is the world expert on Belzec. Belzec is a sleepy little hamlet in southeast Poland. A few thousand people live there. All seem to be related in some...

Head on the market. "Eros Bound" ("Eros spetany") sculpture by Igor Mitoraj was placed at Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny) in Kraków. This is the sculpture’s temporary location. Nobody knows where its permanent place shall be. In the Internet poll, the inhabitants of Kraków chose to locate the sculpture a Railway Station Square (Plac Dworcowy). The artist is of a different opinion; he spent his youth in Kraków and wishes to have his work placed in the town's most prestigious place. The sculpture is over 3.5 m long and over 2 m high. "Eros Bound" depicts a man’s lying...

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Polish author Stanislaw Lem, one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, died on Monday in his home city of Krakow at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease. Lem, whose books have sold more than 27 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages, won widespread acclaim for "The Cyberiad," stories from a mechanical world ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. "Solaris," published in 1961 and set on an isolated space station, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. A...

Cracow tops Prague in popularity 07.03.2006 Cracow has topped Prague in popularity. For the first time ever, more tourists visited Cracow than Prague in 2005. Some 8 million tourists came to Cracow and 3.5m of them stayed at least one night in hotels. According to Andrzej Kozlowski, the former head of the Polish Tourist Organisation, this increase in popularity is the result of promotional and marketing efforts, as well as the plethora of budget airlines flying to Poland. "Prague was trendy - so everyone went to Prague. Now the trend has moved over to Cracow," says Mr Kozlowski.

Tourists head for Krakow 24.08.2005 In the wake of more assertive campaigning from the Polish Tourist Board, Krakow, the historic city in the south of the country, is experiencing a boom in the number of tourists who visit there. Statistics say that more than 52 % of Poles consider Krakow the most people-friendly city in the country. Last year the number of visitors to the city increased by 20%, to around 6.5 million tourists. This year, 8mln tourists are expected according to the Promotion Department of the City of Krakow. And that’s no accident, as it’s a city wrapped in...

         Bishop and  Martyr St. Stanislaus of Cracow   (1030-1070)          Poland has given us two saints named Stanislaus. Of these, the better known is the young Jesuit saint, Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1586). But in Poland itself Bishop St. Stanislaus is a national hero. He headed the diocese of Cracow, a predecessor of Pope John Paul II.        The family name of Cracow's Stanislaus was Szczepanowski. His parents were devout members of the nobility. They had been childless, but God finally rewarded their prayers for a family by sending them Stanislaus. From his birth...