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 ...

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 ...

On Aug. 1, 1944, fighting erupted across Warsaw as coordinated units of combatants attempted to reclaim the city from the Germans. The Warsaw Uprising was an attempt to assert a free and ...

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 ...

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 ...