The first provision of supplies for the insurgents took place during the night between 4 and 5 August 1944. The British aviator Stanley Johnson recalled: ‘We could see Warsaw from afar, since it was ...

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 ...

The books were transported to a safe place’, reported ‘Rzeczpospolita Polska’ on 24 August 1944. Tens of thousands of volumes, old prints and manuscripts from the book collection of Jan Michalski, a ...

Among those present was the family of Stanislawa Wasilewska, who was captured by Nazi troops on Aug. 31, 1944, during the ...

The Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire conference is an international academic forum whose purpose is to share information, scholarship and views on matters related to learning ...

to destroy Warsaw as the symbol of Polish pride and identity. The destruction was a cultural and human crime. No fewer than 200,000 Poles died in the August 1944 uprising. Many more had been ...

Taylor Swift's Warsaw performance falls on the 80th anniversary of the start of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and sirens will ring out at 5.p.m.