Rescuers work on Sunday, March 4, 2012, at the site where two trains collided head-on near Szczekociny, Poland, late on Saturday. (AP Photo/Wojtek Barczynski)
Poland wants the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington to return a section of barrack that was part of the barrack at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim (above). The half in Washington has been on loan for more than 20 years. (Associated Press)
Inmates from the Jilava prison in Romania are mobilized Monday in 5 degrees Fahrenheit to dig out a snowed-in shelter for stray dogs in nearby Glina. Temperatures plunged to minus 16.6 in some parts of Romania and -15 F in Poland. At least 36 deaths in Eastern Europe were blamed on the cold. (Associated Press)
Poles sell used items on a street in Warsaw in mid-December. Poland still faces many economic problems despite strong growth since joining the European Union in 2004. People across Central and Eastern Europe are balking at requests that they help bailout the eurozone. (Associated Press)
The 42-year marriage of Danuta and Lech Walesa was strained as when his leadership of Poland's Solidarity movement took him away from their family. Mrs. Walesa says in an upcoming autobiography that she paid a huge price for her husband's struggle against communism, talking publicly for the first time about her loneliness and fear for the family's unity as her husband gained worldwide recognition with his political work. (Associated Press)
LOT Polish Airlines Capt. Tadeusz Wrona speaks to the press at Poland's Warsaw Chopin Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, the day after he made a smooth emergency landing on a Boeing 767. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (center) celebrates in Warsaw with Health Minister Ewa Kopacz (right) and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski (background left) as the first exit poll is published following parliamentary elections on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
** FILE ** Tourists walk through the main square with the Town Hall on the right in Wroclaw, Poland, in this Aug. 18, 2011, photo. The latest backdrop for European financial crisis talks was Wroclaw, Poland — or Breslau, as the picturesque city on the Oder River is still known in Germany. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
In the Old Town of Krakow, Poland, visitors can find a mix of tradition and trend. (Associated Press)
