A number of survivors, several centenarians, have died in a wave that underscores the rapid disappearance of anyone alive ...

In the last days of August 1944, the Third Reich found itself stumbling - and the resilient Polish people keenly felt the shifting tides of fate. With the horrors of war weighing heavily upon them, ...

Eyewitness testimonies from the time of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising have been gathered on the "Chronicles of Terror" website.

I recently returned from Europe, where I attended the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Emsland camps by Allied forces in World War II. The Emsland camps, located in ...

What had overwhelmed me was a profound sense of connection to my parents and their losses in the land of their birth: both ...

After liberating Paris in August 1944, the Allied advance into Germany slowed due to severe logistical problems. Hitler exploited this[...] ...

To many, the Palace of Culture and Science represents politics, ideology and propaganda. But also the highest quality ...

There seems to be a museum for everything in Warsaw, but the city has much more beyond its world-class repositories of the ...

Photo of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland from the Jürgen Stroop Report to Heinrich Himmler in May 1943 Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce’s Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ...