During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...

How Russian prisoners of war are treated in Ukraine and what they say about the war and their role in it - read in the report ...

A prisoner of war camp from the Napoleonic era located in Cambridgeshire has been acquired by a trust to preserve it as a site of historical significance. Nene Park Trust has purchased Norman Cross, ...

TYCHOWO, Poland — The last time Lester Schrenk stood in this dense patch of forest in what is now northwestern Poland, there were no trees here. It was 80 years ago, and the Germans had cleared a ...

The remains of a Massachusetts soldier who went missing during the Korean War in 1951 and died as a prisoner of war have been identified and will soon return home. In early 1951, U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph ...

What is believed to be the first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, dating from the Napoleonic Wars, is now open to the public. The Norman Cross Camp in Yaxley, just south of Peterborough, housed ...

An American soldier from Taunton who was a prisoner of war during the Korean War was identified, a military agency announced Tuesday. U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph R. Travers, 24, who died as a prisoner of ...

The Camp Atterbury Rock situated as people approach the military base from the east on Hospital Road. The rock was carved by an Italian prisoner of war housed at Camp Atterbury, and the rock still ...

The Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper on Oct. 16, 1903, published a lengthy two-page story about eight men from Wilkes-Barre, describing their horrific experiences as war prisoners at the Confederate ...

Eighty years later, descendants of prisoners from the Japanese American detention camp are playing baseball again in a ...

For some people, the new year brings a resolution to refrain from drinking — if only for a month. In 2013, a British charity launched the “Dry January” campaign to raise awareness of the health and ...