Poland

The Case of Iwona Wieczorek is a 2023 Polish true crime docuseries about the unsolved disappearance of 19-year-old Iwona Wieczorek, who vanished near Gdańsk in July 2010. Streams on Viaplay and Netflix Poland.

From the factory floors where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau — Krakow holds the weight of the Holocaust in stone and silence.

Danish journalist Janne Aagaard has created a true crime podcast series examining some of the most disturbing criminal cases in the Baltic Sea region. Produced by Saga and available across multiple streaming platforms, Mord ved Østersøen (Murder by the Baltic Sea) brings listeners into the details of cases spanning Poland, Russia, and Estonia.

On March 24-25, 1944, 76 Allied airmen escaped through a tunnel from Stalag Luft III near Sagan, Poland. Only three reached freedom. The other 73 were recaptured, and 50 were murdered on Adolf Hitler's orders in one of WWII's lesser-known war crimes.