The uprising — the largest single Jewish revolt of World War II — was launched 78 years ago when Nazi Germans tried to transport the population of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Majdanek and Treblinka death ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw has come to a standstill on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Sirens wailed, church bells rang and people stopped in their tracks, some stepping ...

I have been to many war memorials around the world, but only one has ever moved me to tears. It has stood on a corner of Bonifraterska Street, next to Poland’s Supreme Court, since 1989. The imposing, ...

Anna Kurek, known by her wartime nom de guerre Anka, a participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and a medic and nurse at a ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument commemorating Holocaust victims. “The MFA strongly condemns the act of ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor their defensive pact with Poland and declare war on Germany in response. As ...

STORY: :: A Warsaw Uprising survivor reflects as Poland marks the 80th anniversary of the rebellion :: In 1944, Poland rose up against Nazi Germany control in a struggle that lasted for 63 days :: ...

The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943 during World War II, will re-appear as an image in blue light, brightening the sky above the city Thursday night. The blue image, a ...

WARSAW — Presidents joined Holocaust survivors and their descendants to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Wednesday with a poignant sense that the responsibility for ...

Installation view of the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" exhibit within the permanent exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC (2015) (photo by the author) Every April 19, ...

A Polish Catholic bishop said Monday that the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is a reminder of the need to love one’s neighbor. In a message, Bishop Rafał Markowski paid tribute to the ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish capital came to a standstill Thursday on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, an ill-fated revolt against Nazi German forces during World War ...