On 19th April 1943, smoke covered the skies over central Warsaw. The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish ...

Then, on Passover eve, on April 19, German police and SS forces entered the Warsaw ghetto intent upon completing the ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...

When the police arrived at the scene, Braun invoked his parliamentary privilege and refused to leave Warsaw’s German Historical Institute even as the event was called off and the crowd vacated ...

Her father and older brother were taken to stalags — war prisons — in Germany, and her younger brother was murdered by the Nazis after they caught him with a Jewish girl he was friends with.

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

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 ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday asked for forgiveness for German atrocities in Poland during World War II, as he visited the Polish capital Warsaw. Steinmeier spoke with the ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark ... imprisonment at the Nazi German concentration camps ...