Janina Różecka, nom de guerre "Dora," who served as an orderly during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was later recognised as ...

Warsaw Community Public Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries newly selected to host "Americans and the Holocaust." ...

This beautiful new play, Nobody Told Me, now at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, covers gripping material that takes us from ...

Meanwhile, Poland's defence chief Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubieszów line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road. A ...

On November 16, 1940, the Jewish quarter in Warsaw was surrounded by a 3.5-meter-high barbed wire fence, with which its residents were finally cut off from the world around them, recalls "Deutsche ...

Michael Smuss, one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who later became an artist to process his Holocaust trauma, has died in Israel at the age of 99. Smuss, who famously ...

This undated handout photo, courtesy of Michael Smuss’ family, shows Michael Smuss holding a marker next to a placard commemorating the 50 anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Michael Smuss’ ...

Is Poland in Eastern or Central Europe? It depends on who you ask. The border between them is a shifting concept, and the nation of nearly 37 million sits between these two political and psychological ...

Bogie doing noir. Chaplin doing satire. Screwball comedies being screwy. No wonder the picturehouses of the 1940’s were packed. The ‘40s in film are exactly what you think they were: Casablanca, ...

The European Commission commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising through a social media video published by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday, Saturday ...

The Uprising In October 1940, about one year after invading Poland, Nazi Germany established a ghetto in the Jewish sector of Warsaw, erecting an eighteen-kilometer wall to separate Jewish from ...

The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church will proclaim as saints clergy murdered by the Soviets at Katyn in 1940 and other 20th-century martyrs at a September 16 ceremony in Warsaw’s Hagia Sophia ...