Vanessa Gera

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US takes gay rights global, despite unsure welcome

Vanessa Gera · June 28, 2014 6:13 pm

Poland’s president says US still an important ally

Vanessa Gera · June 23, 2014 8:32 pm

Polish magazine gives prosecutors recordings

Vanessa Gera · June 21, 2014 12:51 pm

Some see foreign hand in growing Polish scandal

Vanessa Gera · June 19, 2014 7:40 pm

Canada sending 75 more troops to Eastern Europe

Canada sending 75 more troops to Eastern Europe

Vanessa Gera · June 4, 2014 12:58 pm

The communist era Palace of Culture, colorfully illuminated, is surrounded by modern skyscrapers, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, May 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poles reflect on life before and after 1989

Vanessa Gera · June 1, 2014 10:40 am

Poland’s Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski dies at 90

Vanessa Gera · May 25, 2014 4:43 pm

A statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan shows Adolf Hitler praying on his knees in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Dec. 28, 2012. The work, âHIMâ has been drawing visitors since it was installed last month and even some anger. One Jewish group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week condemned the workâs placement in the former ghetto as âa senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims.â. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Praying Hitler in ex-Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion

Vanessa Gera · December 28, 2012 4:20 pm

People are silhouetted as the sun rises above the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England, as access to the site is given to druids, New Age followers and members of the public on the annual Winter Solstice, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Doomsday hour is here and so still are we. According to legend, the ancient Mayans' long-count calendar ends at midnight Thursday, ushering in the end of the world. Didn't happen. "This is not the end of the world. This is the beginning of the new world," Star Johnsen-Moser, an American seer, said at a gathering of hundreds of spiritualists at a convention center in the Yucatan city of Merida, an hour and a half from the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Hot spots draw believers, but not doomsday

Vanessa Gera · December 21, 2012 2:21 pm

Opponents of Poland's last communist leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski attend an annual rally in front of his house in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 to mark the anniversary of the martial law he imposed on Poland 31 years ago, a repressive crackdown against Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement in an attempt to crush the proponents of democracy. Several hours earlier Jaruzelski, 89, was hospitalized with a heavy nosebleed. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poles march to remember martial law in 1981

Vanessa Gera · December 13, 2012 8:02 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2006 photo Wilhelm Brasse speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Zywiec, Poland. Brasse, a former Auschwitz prisoner who survived the camp after the Nazis discovered he was a professional photographer and put him to work taking pictures of other prisoners, has died. He was 95. Brasse was a political prisoner for five years in the Nazi run death camp during World War II, where he took prisoner identity photos and later pictures of SS doctor Josef Mengele's "medical experiments" on camp prisoners. Brasse returned to his hometown after the war, but never worked as a photographer again. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Auschwitz prisoner and photographer dies at 95

Vanessa Gera · October 24, 2012 4:00 am

Thousands of Poles protest pro-market reforms

Thousands of Poles protest pro-market reforms

Vanessa Gera · September 29, 2012 12:16 pm