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 ...

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 ...

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

a village outside Warsaw, to a Polish-Hungarian family. Her Hungarian passport enabled her to travel on German trains during the occupation. She worked as a nurse and a distributor of the underground ...

While the Jewish resistance faced overwhelming odds against the vastly larger and better armed German forces, the Warsaw ...

The end of the war was coming. But this did not hinder the Nazi Germans from not only smothering the uprising in the Polish capital, using divisions that were more needed on the front, but also ...

With the last Germans in full retreat, Polish and Soviet forces encountered ... The vanished city The end of the Warsaw Uprising on October 2, 1944, saw the Nazis visit new vengeances on a city that ...

but one of the city’s most memorable is the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created to commemorate the thousands of Poles who fought against Nazi Germany (which ...

The pictures are the first to show the uprising that were not ... rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the only known photographs ...

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

which commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. In April 1943, German Nazi troops and police entered the Warsaw Ghetto, where thousands of Jews had been forcibly moved, to deport the ghetto ...

To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum ... touch on the country's occupation by Nazi Germany and the post-war years.