Before being thrown into the abyss of Auschwitz, many Polish Jews passed through ghettos like the one in Krakow, where, after being stripped of all their belongings, they lived in overcrowded ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

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 ...

Poland continues to condemn Ukrainian migrant Natalia Panchenko, who openly threatens Poles with arson attacks on houses and ...

The Nazi authorities have herded 1,350,000 Jews into 11 ghettos in various parts of occupied Poland, according to figures compiled by Polish Jewish circles here on the basis of official statistics.

The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my seven-year-old father, his ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle ... "we received our first transport of weapons "from the Polish Home Army. "It was not much. "There were only 10 pistols in the whole ...

Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the story of the Holocaust, writes.

Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded in the mid-19th century, is seen on an undated photo (center) with ...

German forces occupied Poland at the start of World War II and set up a system of ghettos and death camps where they killed millions of Jews and others. There had been reports suggesting that the ...