Warsaw, Poland's Old Town. May 8th marks the 70th anniversary of World War II's VE Day. Most Americans consider Victory in Europe as being the logical end result of the June 1944's D-Day Invasion ...

Two sections of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II should be added to a list of historical monuments, a regional conservation official in Poland said Tuesday. A proposal t… ...

There were fatal outbreaks during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, during the Irish famine between 1816 and 1819, in Philadelphia in 1837, and all along the Eastern Front during World War I.

While the retreating Polish Army valiantly resisted the advancing German columns, Warsaw’s 1.3 million inhabitants were subjected to furious bombardment. Hospitals, churches and schools were hit.

“The heroism with which Poles rallied round the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution” during World War II at the risk of their own lives was hailed in an article published in the official Warsaw ...

Europe’s physical battles of World War II ended 75 years ago with German surrender on May 7, 1945. But that doesn’t mean the fighting is over: A wave of right-wing nationalist leaders, who ...

WARSAW — James Gillen is known for his contributions to preserving Wyoming County’s World War II history. He served in the war himself and helped author “WWII Gold Star Veterans of Wyoming ...

The St. Kazimierz Catholic Church in New Town, Warsaw, was used as a hospital during World War II. Nuns housed many civilians in the church and cellars and gave medical aid as well as they could.

While doing road repairs in Wrocław, Poland, workers recently came across more than 50 military helmets from World War I and ...

Poland commemorated the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Sunday, replacing its annual official ceremonies with low-key gatherings on site or online as the coronavirus pandemic prevented any big events.

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II. As German bombs began falling on Poland in 1939, an American photographer made a fateful decision ...