A lieutenant in the Polish resistance, Zabinski sheltered the Jews in underground pathways connecting the animal cages. He also used the zoo to store arms for the resistance. A meticulous ...

Jaroslaw Jarek Piekalkiewicz and his cousin started a Polish resistance unit to fight the Germans during World War II. Now a Lawrence resident, Piekalkiewicz will speak Nov. 16-19 at the ...

A veteran officer of the Polish Army and member of World War II underground resistance Home Army, he voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intelligence and later escaped the death camp in 1943 to ...

Soviet forces liberated Warsaw in January 1945. Zivia moved to Palestine and, along with other Polish resistance leaders, founded the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz and Museum. She testified against ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It was an imperfect, but workable design. The Błyskawica, or Lightning, combined the best features of the German MP40 and the British Sten submarine guns..

The Polish Legions of the Austro-Hungarian Army, led by Józef Piłsudski, also wore a version of the rogatywka, although their ...

Elon Musk boasted that Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion would collapse if he chose to cut off access to his Starlink ...

This was helped by a handful of prisoners escaping from Auschwitz, as well as the work of the Polish resistance. The available intelligence was finally put together in a 30-page report that became ...

highlighting her role in organizing the women’s police force and her service in the Polish resistance during World War II. The Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Tomasz Siemoniak ...