Like other death camp sites, Treblinka was linked by rail to major Jewish communities in its region of Poland. The deportation and subsequent exterminaton of the Warsaw region Jews stood as the ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument ...

By the 16th century, as much as 75% of the world’s Jewish population lived in Poland. In 1939, when Poland was partitioned ...

Two weeks later, Poland suffered a second invasion, this time from the Soviet Union in the east. It is not widely known but Polish casualties during the bombing of Warsaw by the Luftwaffe in 1939 ...

‘Rope-soled slippers, size 38’ - these are some of the last words written in the poet’s hand. It is 18th April 1944 in the prison on Czarnieckiego Street in Kraków. In a request, she further asks for ...

Stalag II D, located in western Poland, began operations in 1939 and held up to 6,000 prisoners, including Red Army soldiers. Prisoner barracks at Stalag Luft III POW camp from WWII in Zagan ...

Mr Putin said he had requested Soviet archive documents in order to write an article on the subject - Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 - and, in his view, to set the record ...

Newsreader Lionel Marson announces that Germany has invaded Poland and the armed forces in ... BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 1 September 1939.