A statue of a mermaid, said to be the city's protector, in ... after World War II. Relaxing in Lazienki Park in front of the Palace on the Isle. Photo Credit: Barbara Redding Poland's most ...

A veteran officer of the Polish Army and member of World War II underground resistance Home Army, he voluntarily entered Auschwitz to gather intelligence and later escaped the death camp in 1943 to ...

In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw ... after World War II, a long ...

WARSAW (JTA ... For decades after World War II, a long silence engulfed Poland’s Jewish history and the atrocities committed there. Nine in 10 Polish Jews were killed, many survivors ...

WARSAW (JTA ... For decades after World War II, a long silence engulfed Poland’s Jewish history and the atrocities committed there. Nine in 10 Polish Jews were killed, many survivors ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early ... would also invade Poland from the East. The railway bridge at Dirschau after a span was destroyed by Polish engineers before the Germans ...

It all started a year ago, when I received an email from a man in Warsaw ... only for Poland to fall under the Soviet Union after World War II. After the war, my family moved into Poland as ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

(JTA) — WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital ... disease or execution under the Nazis and consigned to two deep mass graves. For decades after World War II, a long silence engulfed ...

By Sam Roberts Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to ... died on Feb. 18 at his home in Warsaw. He was 98.