Poles on Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, the once-forbidden anniversary of the ”other” invasion that followed the Nazi attack opening World War II. At rallies and ...

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.

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 ...

Zygmunt Aksienow rescued a caged canary as a "sign of the normal life I was used to." Julien Bryan Like other members of his generation, Julien Bryan would never forget where he was or what he was ...

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 ...

Israel Gutman, Israel’s most prominent survivor historian, died in Jerusalem on October 1. A native of Warsaw, Gutman was only a teenager when the Germans invaded his Poland. His parents and his older ...

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, ...