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

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.

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 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 ...

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 Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

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 ...

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

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on 19th April 1943, the eve of Passover (Pesach), when the Nazi Germans entered the ghetto in order to deport its surviving inhabitants. They were met with armed ...

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 ...