Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...

Polish Christmas traditions are full of warmth, fun and plenty of food. Celebrate Wigilia and Boże Narodzenie with Culture.pl's handy guides on how to get in the Polish Christmas spirit!

Polish Christmas Wafer: A Flavorless Tradition That's Oh So Sweet : The Salt Before Christmas Eve dinner, some families share the oplatek along with good wishes for each other. The tradition dates ...

Christmastime brings people and traditions together from around the world, and CBS 2's Don Schwenneker talked with one Chicagoan who wanted to find out the reason behind some of the traditions.

Before Christmas Eve dinner, some families share the oplatek along with good wishes for each other. The tradition dates back hundreds of years: Back when bread was scarce, exchanging it with ...

Detroit’s Polish community celebrates Wigilia, a Polish Christmas Eve dinner tradition. It’s a Polish tradition some say is bigger than Christmas Day itself.

Varying Polish traditions call for a Christmas Eve meal of 12 dishes to represent the 12 apostles or 13 dishes to represent the number of people at the Last Supper.

MUNSTER | Sharing sacred Polish Christmas traditions, passed down from generation to generation, brought more than 100 guests to Saturday’s Wigilia meal at the Carmelite Monastery banquet hall.

Deep roots “If you’re lucky, you live in Hazelton and you can still buy them from the 100-year-old church ladies like my brother does,” she said, referring to her hometown in Pennsylvania.

Tessa Schutz shared that her family’s Christmas tradition includes making Italian food on Christmas, while Cindy O'Donnell said she enjoys, “Eating Jack in the Box tacos while baking cookies.” ...

"For us, Polish Americans, the oplatek, that wafer, is Christmas Eve," says Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author of the book Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore. "It defines people's heritage ...