WARSAW — It was 60 years ago today that the Warsaw uprising -- an ill-fated 63-day rebellion to liberate the Polish capital of Nazi occupation -- broke out. Halina Szwykowska, 82, who left her ...

The tragic fate of Warsaw during WWII is known to Poles, but others may not be as familiar with the heroic resistance that was the 1944 Uprising. Here, Culture.pl has put together a series of films ...

Into the summer of 1944, as the Soviet advance on Berlin accelerated ... to be led by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw—seemed to its commander Bor-Komorowski, to be at hand.

They paid tribute to the Wola Massacre, the mass-murder of civilians of Warsaw’s Wola district carried out by the Germans from Aug. 5 to Aug. 12, 1944. “They were led out of their homes ...

On 20 July, a group of German officers had come close to assassinating Adolf Hitler. A week later, the advancing Soviet army was on the outskirts of Warsaw. Paris was only weeks from liberation. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

This striking photograph is familiar around the world. It shows a building struck by a mortar shell during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 – and it became one of its most recognisable symbols in the media ...

On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began. Among the underground fighters were members of the Scout movement. Show more On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw ...