Eighty-years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II. The front-page banner headline of The Patriot on Sept. 2, 1939, read, “Get Out of Poland or fight us, Britain ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the only synagogue in this city to have survived World War II, Yoram Sztykgold looks around with a perplexed expression. An 82-year-old retired architect, ...

The 1939-45 destruction was the result of bombings carried out by Nazi Germany, which invaded Poland in 1939 and occupied it for six years, killing millions of people. Most of the damage resulted from ...

Zygmunt Aksienow rescued a caged canary as a "sign of the normal life I was used to." Julien Bryan Like other members of his generation, Julien Bryan would never forget where he was or what he was ...

LONDON, Sept. 3, 1939 (INS) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed to the British empire and the world at large today that Great Britain and Germany are at war, a conflict that may lead to a ...