I went to Wrocław, Poland, in search of my grandfather, who was born and grew up there, back when this picturesque city on the Oder River was Breslau, Germany. With a list of his old addresses culled ...

Over 180 families of Eastern European Jews living in Breslau are in despair following the sudden order by the Nazi authorities that they leave Germany. The order, which technically withdrew unexpired ...

Travellers to the western Polish city of Wroclaw in the 1980s could still encounter Germans who had lived there before the Second World War. One of those who escaped the mass exodus of the German ...

In early November 1938, tumultuous sounds of “screaming, crashing, breaking of glass, shouting” in what was then Breslau, Germany, kept Esther Ascher Adler’s family awake through the night. “We had no ...

Marek Krajewski, trans. from the Polish by Danusia Stok. Melville International Crime (Random, dist.), $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61219-177-5 Krajewski’s bleak second mystery in his Eberhard Mock ...

A special court sitting here sentenced Doctor Ernst Rechnitz, administrative director of the Breslau Jewish community, as responsible editor of the Breslau Gemeindeblatt, the Jewish community ...