September 1939, Warsaw under siege. One of the first artillery shells hit the building at the corner of Polna and 6 Sierpnia streets. On the fifth floor, lived the camera operator Stanisław Wohl.

In October 1938, a new exhibition opened at the National Museum in Warsaw, which would run until mid-1939. Titled ‘Warszawa Wczoraj, Dziś, Jutro’ (Warsaw Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), it testified to a ...

Though long threatened, Poland was in no way prepared to face Hitler’s war machine when it finally attacked. Replete with tanks and planes, his would be a new kind of warfare. So, on the 10th of ...

In August 1939, when she was living in Warsaw and running educational programs and securing visas for the Freedom movement, she attended a meeting in Switzerland of Zionist delegates from around ...

In many ways, it has defined my life. During the Second World War, Warsaw was virtually wiped off the map. It was damaged during the Nazi invasion of 1939, but far worse was to come five years ...