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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, ...

When the Polish underground rebelled against Hitler in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Soviet Union—which had called for the uprising—betrayed the Poles, waiting for the Nazis to crush the ...

After the war, Poland came under Soviet rule and Pilecki and his underground unit continued to fight for Polish independence in the Warsaw Uprising. He was evenutally arrested, forced to sign a ...

Janina Iwanska continues, she says that Germans were given orders to "flatten" her hometown in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and that in the first six days of the 1944 uprising 50,000 people were ...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".