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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.