Irish agribusiness company Origin Enterprises has completed the €22.4m takeover of a Polish counterpart as part of its ongoing expansion in the Eastern European market.

I have just fulfilled a lifelong ambition to visit the great forest which stretches from eastern Poland deep into Belarus. The huge expanse of broadleaved and conifer trees, known as Bialowie´za, is now a national park and a Unesco World Heritage site.

We must remember that without the efforts of the Red Army , the Nazis would have been able to complete their attempted genocide of Europe’s Jews, writes Geoffrey Roberts

She was a Polish farmer’s daughter who emigrated to the United States, a maid who worked for a wealthy American heir, a third wife who inherited much of the Johnson & Johnson fortune after a sensational court battle with her six stepchildren.

Matthew Zajac tells Colette Sheridan about unearthing the surprising truth about his father’s wartime service

Savage Continent:Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

A FIRE swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims, officials said yesterday.

A FORECAST has found that total cereal production across the European Union this year should be close to the average of the last five years.

A group of elderly Holocaust survivors came forward yesterday with accounts of a death squad they formed after World War II to take revenge on their Nazi persecutors, recounting a brazen operation in which they poisoned hundreds of SS officers.

Officials have increased the death toll in today's bus crash in eastern Poland to 13, most of them students aged 18-19.

At least 11 people were killed today when a bus carrying high school students collided with a truck in north-eastern Poland, police said.

London swings it as the EU’s richest region, according to EU data released today, while Poland had five of its regions languishing at the bottom of the bloc’s wealth table.

For nearly 60 years, Binyamin Shilon believed his sister was among the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Now, he has been reunited with her.