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 ...

Anders Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary General and Danish Prime Minister, received the Medal of the Courier from Warsaw on ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tzivia Lubetkin, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and one of the founders of the Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot and its museum, has previously spoken about the sources of strength and inspiration ...