A traditional soup enjoyed in rural Poland, Pokrzywianka is made by simmering young stinging nettle leaves with potatoes, root vegetables, and occasionally smoked meat or eggs. Nettles are foraged ...

Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, punctures the sound of rustling leaves and hard rain in rural Poland. A woman reads aloud, from Braille, the story of the 1,400 Jews from the Polish ...