Later, even those well-accustomed to the horrors of war expressed their shock. Visiting Warsaw shortly after Germany had fallen, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was moved to confess: “I have seen many towns destroyed, but nowhere have I been faced with ...

Rzeszów, a large Polish city in close proximity to the country’s border with Ukraine, is an instrumental location in the flow of Western equipment.

Her father and older brother were taken to stalags — war prisons — in Germany, and her younger brother was murdered by the Nazis after they caught him with a Jewish girl he was friends with.

Poland has ramped up controls of livestock imports amid the spread of a highly contagious animal foot-and-mouth disease in neighbouring Germany, Warsaw said late on Tuesday. It has however stopped ...

The defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders say they intend to continue increasing their investments in defense but described President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as extremely difficult.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of Western troops deploying in Ukraine to safeguard any peace d

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 extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II took place largely in occupied Poland. But for many Poles, Holocaust remembrance remains a challenge.

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 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

On this day in 1945 — 80 years ago — the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some people would say that this marks the beginning of the end of the Holocaust. Ah, but wait. Let us remember this day’s stated purpose — “to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism” (emphasis mine).

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Witold Pilecki did the only logical thing for a someone as patriotic as him: he signed up to fight.

By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death