The first provision of supplies for the insurgents took place during the night between 4 and 5 August 1944. The British aviator Stanley Johnson recalled: ‘We could see Warsaw from afar, since it was ...

And they are driven by such a really very strong sense that Warsaw is a city of two uprisings and very often we remember and rightly and very well the uprising in 1944, but that before the Warsaw ...

Federal agencies hear from Holocaust survivor Eugene Bergman about how he and some of his family escaped the Warsaw Ghetto.The post ‘Don’t stay in the ghetto, avoid the trains’ appeared ...

Beginning on 1st August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising lasted 63 days and became one the most dramatic, terrible and rich chapters of Polish history. Unsurprisingly, from the very first days of the ...

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 ...