On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor their defensive pact with Poland and declare war on Germany in response. As ...

WARSAW, POLAND (WGHP) — Walking through Warsaw, Poland today feels similar to walking through a large city in the United States. The city has skyscrapers, traffic and mass transportation. But we ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument commemorating Holocaust victims. “The MFA strongly condemns the act of ...

After the German Army had captured Poland in World War II, one of the first actions was to begin to separate all Jews into an area of the city with a previously high concentration of Jewish residents.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s Jewish ...

During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghetto’s walls. Children whirled around carousels, giddy crowds converged to holler at the explosive ...

WARSAW, Poland Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a half-dozen buildings, a synagogue, some fragments of brick wall. The rest was blown up by the Germans in their onslaught against the ...

People gather at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jewish people of Vilnius killed by Nazis during World War II, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 ...

In 1516, a 7-acre section of Venice, Italy was designated as the area where Jews would be required to live. As it was located where a copper foundry had been, it was called by the word for ‘foundry’ ...

The Nigerian-born Jazz drummer dropped his sticks to defend his wife's hometown in the Second World War. Born in Lagos, Agboola was the only known African participant in Warsaw's tenacious but fated ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s leaders stressed the need for a strong defense in the face of war in neighboring Ukraine and redress as they led solemn ceremonies early Sunday to mark the 85th anniversary ...