Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

Poles on Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, the once-forbidden anniversary of the ”other” invasion that followed the Nazi attack opening World War II. At rallies and ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived World War II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old retired architect, ...

WARSAW, Sept. 1, 1939 (UP) - President Moscicki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across the ...

The 1939-45 destruction was the result of bombings carried out by Nazi Germany, which invaded Poland in 1939 and occupied it for six years, killing millions of people. Most of the damage resulted from ...

Jerry Jazwinski was 8 years old when the Germans invaded his hometown of Warsaw, Poland, in 1939. As World War II snowballed, Jazwinski watched the siege of the city; by the time he was 13, he joined ...

British historian Roger Moorhouse has taken to social media to post a 1939 photo from war-torn Warsaw, describing it as ”one of the most iconic images of World War II, reproduced in a thousand history ...

Zygmunt Aksienow rescued a caged canary as a "sign of the normal life I was used to." Julien Bryan Like other members of his generation, Julien Bryan would never forget where he was or what he was ...

Israel Gutman, Israel’s most prominent survivor historian, died in Jerusalem on October 1. A native of Warsaw, Gutman was only a teenager when the Germans invaded his Poland. His parents and his older ...