On April 1, 2025, Dr. Lisa Carchedi gave her older sister, Gina Warsaw, a kidney and a chance at a longer life.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, about how his city is managing the influx of Ukrainian refugees. He says Warsaw's population went up by 15% since the outset of the conflict.

WARSAW, Poland – Warsaw city councilors have banned a 1945 monument of Polish-Soviet brotherhood in arms from being returned to its place on a city street. The move, a reversal of their own ...

Eighty-one years ago, the Polish capital witnessed its second uprising during the occupation, an event that led to the ...

The Warsaw Uprising Museum is interactive and accessible (even for kids). POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, is a deeply moving place that offers important context to the city’s ...

Warsaw has good reason to be a city of the future: The past hasn’t been very kind. Since becoming Poland’s capital in 1596, Warsaw has seen wave after wave of foreign rulers and invasions ...

Warsaw has good reason to be a city of the future: The past hasn’t been very kind. Since becoming Poland’s capital in 1596, Warsaw has seen wave after wave of foreign rulers and invasions ...

Warsaw City Hall: Half a million people turn out to protest Poland’s right-wing government Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on April 19, 2023.

In a side-room of the museum, The City of Ruins, a 3D film that flies you over a reconstruction of the resulting carnage, offers a startling glimpse of how far Warsaw had to return.