The phrase "Polish death camps" misrepresents historical facts by falsely attributing Nazi crimes to Poland—a nation that ...

Jaroslaw Jarek Piekalkiewicz and his cousin started a Polish resistance unit to fight the Germans during World War II. Now a Lawrence resident, Piekalkiewicz will speak Nov. 16-19 at the ...

But despite her advanced age, she became involved in the resistance movement against the German occupiers. The German ...

While working undercover for the Polish resistance, Janina walked into Majdanek several days a week to meet with mass murderers and argue that saving a certain number of Polish lives would serve ...

Remembering Witold Pilecki, the Hero of Auschwitz Historian Marco Patricelli recalls “the volunteer” in the concentration ...

A lieutenant in the Polish resistance, Zabinski sheltered the Jews in underground pathways connecting the animal cages. He also used the zoo to store arms for the resistance. A meticulous ...

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

Here’s What You Need to Know: It was an imperfect, but workable design. The Błyskawica, or Lightning, combined the best features of the German MP40 and the British Sten submarine guns..

In the face of a common enemy, Russia, the legacy of the massacres, of the reprisals by Polish resistance fighters who killed thousands of Ukrainians, and of the later deportations of some 150,000 ...

In recent years, Polish diplomats have successfully reduced the use of incorrect phrases like 'Polish death camps' in foreign ...