was involved in the Polish resistance of the Germans during World War II and earned several medals. He organized a resistance unit with his cousin to gather weapons and train fighters when he was ...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, some intellectuals were able to avoid being sent to Nazi concentration camps by ...

Witold Pilecki during World War II allowed ... non-Jewish Polish Army officer who reported on atrocities at Auschwitz after allowing himself to be captured and later fought in the resistance ...

As today’s war rages in Ukraine’s east, a row over the graves is tearing at the country’s relations with Poland, one of its ...

The film stars Iwan Rheon of Game of Thrones fame A Scottish filmmaker has directed a new film about a squadron of Polish pilots who ... Flying Hurricane fighters for the RAF, they became a ...

Ghetto girls defied the typical image of World War II partisans and used ... along with other Polish resistance leaders, founded the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz and Museum. She testified against ...

Struggling under German occupation near the end of World War II, a Polish spy displays a great amount of courage while serving as an emissary and inspires the Polish uprising.

The Warsaw Rising Museum, which tells the story of the Polish capital's bloody 1944 uprising against the Germans, says it attracted more than 700,000 visitors this year.