Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

WARSAW, Sept. 1, 1939 (UP) - President Moscicki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across the ...

British historian Roger Moorhouse has taken to social media to post a 1939 photo from war-torn Warsaw, describing it as ”one of the most iconic images of World War II, reproduced in a thousand history ...

LONDON, Sept. 3, 1939 (INS) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed to the British empire and the world at large today that Great Britain and Germany are at war, a conflict that may lead to a ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived World War II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old retired architect, ...

Jerry Jazwinski was 8 years old when the Germans invaded his hometown of Warsaw, Poland, in 1939. As World War II snowballed, Jazwinski watched the siege of the city; by the time he was 13, he joined ...

A rare telephone book showcasing the size of the Jewish community living in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of World War II is on display this week to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, which starts ...

A commemorative plaque for American photographer Julien Bryan has been unveiled on the wall of the Headquarters of the Military Police at Ostroroga street in Warsaw's Wola district. Bryan documented ...

Warsaw, September 13, 1939 — two girls are rummaging for potatoes as German warplanes approach and open fire, killing one. As her 12-year-old sister bends over her body, an American photographer ...