The Nike monument is one of the most recognizable symbols of Warsaw, even though it went through a move from the representative Theatre Square to the East-West thoroughfare. The monument is 21 metres ...

When the Nazis bombed Warsaw on Sept. 1, 1939, no living creature was safe. In Jan and Antonina Zabinski’s zoo, monkeys shrieked, parrot feathers caught fire, and bloodied zebras fled broken ...

BERLIN, Sept. 27, 1939 (UP) -- The city of Warsaw capitulated unconditionally today, the Nazi high command said, on the 20th day of bombardment, fire and starvation.

LONDON, Sept. 8, 1939 (UP) -- The Polish radio reported from Warsaw tonight that the capital had suffered the biggest air raid of the war, with many incendiary bombs falling. It said numerous ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an event regarded as the start of World War II. But what came next ...

Poland 1939-1945. New Content ... Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other death camp sites, ...

Before the 1939 German invasion, one-third of the Warsaw population was Jewish. At its peak, the ghetto was packed with 400,000 Jews in an area less than 2.4% of the city.