The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered heroic resistance, often by groups with little chance of success. Nowhere was ...

Here, we present profiles of ten photojournalists of the Warsaw Uprising and the stories behind their photographs. After all, it was all of Warsaw fighting – hence I was there on the barricades and in ...

Jerzy Warman, 76, a Polish-born Jew participating in the non-governmental commemoration whose parents survived the Warsaw Ghetto, said the Polish government wants to turn the uprising ...

But last month, a roll of film taken by a Warsaw firefighter during the uprising was discovered by his son. The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 does not sit quietly among the distant historical events that populate the hundreds of years of Poland’s existence. On your first day in Warsaw, you may already begin to ...

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

but one of the city’s most memorable is the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created to commemorate the thousands of Poles who fought against Nazi Germany (which ...

“Even in the cold, the stench of decay was unbearable.” The vanished city The end of the Warsaw Uprising on October 2, 1944, saw the Nazis visit new vengeances on a city that Hitler had come to view ...

To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum. This attraction, which sits in a former tram power station in the Wola district, is home to ...

Poland on Friday celebrated its National Day of Remembrance for Home Army Soldiers for the first time. The Home Army, the ...