Photographer Eugeniusz Lokajski with cat in front of gate of townhouse at 12 Moniuszki Street in Warsaw, 1944, photo: Wikimedia Prior to the uprising, he was a portrait artist (photographs of the ...

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 does not sit quietly among the distant historical events that populate the hundreds of years of Poland’s existence. On your first day in Warsaw, you may already begin to ...

The first major clashes began in March 1944, with the major uprising in Warsaw planned for the summer. Although partly organized by Jewish resistance groups, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a much ...

The first fully documented account of the ill-fated Warsaw uprising to be published in Poland. In 1945 the author was designated by the Home Army to gather sources for its history. Written in 1948-50, ...

Jerzy Warman, 76, a Polish-born Jew participating in the non-governmental commemoration whose parents survived the Warsaw Ghetto, said the Polish government wants to turn the uprising ...

To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum. This attraction, which sits in a former tram power station in the Wola district, is home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

But last month, a roll of film taken by a Warsaw firefighter during the uprising was discovered by his son. The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto ...

During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in ...