The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

Here, we present profiles of ten photojournalists of the Warsaw Uprising and the stories behind their photographs. After all, it was all of Warsaw fighting – hence I was there on the barricades and in ...

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 does not sit quietly among the distant historical events that populate the hundreds of years of Poland’s existence. On your first day in Warsaw, you may already begin to ...

To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum. This attraction, which sits in a former tram power station in the Wola district, is home to ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

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 ...

But last month, a roll of film taken by a Warsaw firefighter during the uprising was discovered by his son. The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto ...

The 36-foot-tall memorial was completed in 1948 and was erected in the memory of the Jewish fighters who resisted the Germans during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

In the fall of 1944, after the SS brutally suppressed the Warsaw Uprising, the German occupiers almost completely obliterated the Polish capital – using flamethrowers and Goliath tanks.