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

Poland on Friday celebrated its National Day of Remembrance for Home Army Soldiers for the first time. The Home Army, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Even in the cold, the stench of decay was unbearable.” The vanished city The end of the Warsaw Uprising on October 2, 1944, saw the Nazis visit new vengeances on a city that Hitler had come to view ...

Laibach, the Slovenian industrial pioneers, are preparing a new album for the 70th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising. Fans can expect a videoclip to be recorded soon for the song Warsaw ...

The Drama Theatre from Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine is set to present its production of ‘Forefathers’ Eve’ by Polish ...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

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 ...

One of the funniest scenes involves visiting the Warsaw Uprising, a popular monument commemorating the crucial operation of the Polish underground resistance movement, where Benji persuaded the rest ...