Lieutenant Colonel Zbigniew Rylski - the last surviving defender of one of the most fiercely contested strongholds in the ...

Eyewitness testimonies from the time of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising have been gathered on the "Chronicles of Terror" website.

A number of survivors, several centenarians, have died in a wave that underscores the rapid disappearance of anyone alive ...

What had overwhelmed me was a profound sense of connection to my parents and their losses in the land of their birth: both ...

I recently returned from Europe, where I attended the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Emsland camps by Allied forces in World War II. The Emsland camps, located in ...

Operation Bagration officially concluded on August 28th, 1944, having inflicted over $1.2$ million casualties on both sides in just nine weeks, wiping out 28 German divisions, and leaving the road to ...

Italian society, comfortably ensconced in the anti-fascist narrative, regarded the victory as its own. After Mussolini’s ...

Monuments and memorials can be found throughout Warsaw, but one of the city’s most memorable is the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created to commemorate 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 nearly 1 ...

To many, the Palace of Culture and Science represents politics, ideology and propaganda. But also the highest quality ...

Any Ukraine peace plan must be accepted in Kyiv, says Polish president Any peace plan for Ukraine must be accepted in Kyiv, Polish President Karol Nawrocki said, after the U.S. signalled to President ...