But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

He even mentioned a few by name, but he did not mention August Browne, a Nigerian man who spent much of his life in Poland and was perhaps the only black person to fight in the Warsaw Uprising. Few ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

But last month, a roll of film taken by a Warsaw firefighter during the uprising was discovered by his son. The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto ...

Łubieński recalls: It’s the people, the city, who paid for it. General Anders, in his first reaction to the news of the outbreak of the uprising in Warsaw, said that the military men who made such a ...

(JTA) — Poland is asking for a correction after NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell said that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was against “the Polish and Nazi regime.” “[T]he 1943 Warsaw Ghetto ...