85% of the buildings on the left-bank of the river are destroyed. Józef Sigalin, one of the chief architects of Warsaw’s reconstruction, wrote about Nowy Świat Street in January 1945 stating that what ...

Selected spreads from the photobook Warszawa 1945 (Warsaw 1945). Photographs: Leonard Sempoliński, text: Emilia Borecka, publisher: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, 1975. The reconstruction of ...

I’m not going to write about Trump’s Gaza plan, other than Gaza now reminds me of Warsaw in 1945 – both in dramatically different political contexts, of course. Here’s just a tiny portion ...

In the words of one soldier, Warsaw was ‘a phantom city’. Photo: public domain / Wikicommons. 80 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish military formations entered Warsaw bringing an end to ...