The man who believes he is the last living survivor of a Ukrainian concentration camp devotes his life to feeding, clothing and providing medical care to thousands of Jews in his native Lvov region.

Dr. Aleksander Schwarz stands outside the locked gates of what once was the infamous Janowska forced labor camp, on the outskirts of this largest city in western Ukraine. Schwarz kicks a stone ...

In Two Cities, his book of meditations on exile, history and the imagination, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski points out that "to build a bridge one must first - small detail - come upon a river". His ...

“When as a child I needed a haircut — desperately, according to my mother — she would say, ‘Azoy a shmenge oyf den kopp, a mameshe choprene.’ This always seemed to me more Polish or German than ...

Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had left Kiev for Lvov; he added that Zelensky had already departed the Ukrainian capital as of ...

The city authorities refused to comply with the Cassation Administrative Court of Ukraine’s Supreme Court ruling KIEV, October 22. /TASS/. The authorities of the Ukrainian city of Lvov will not hand ...

For 150 years the city of Lvov was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. After Polish independence following the first World War, research blossomed; between 1920 and 1940 a sparkling constellation of ...

Lvov region is the first in 33 years in Ukraine to decide to establish its own contacts in the US MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. A lobbyist in the US will look for partners for economic projects in Lvov ...