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 ...

Poles on Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, the once-forbidden anniversary of the ”other” invasion that followed the Nazi attack opening World War II. At rallies and ...

September 1939, Warsaw under siege. One of the first artillery shells hit the building at the corner of Polna and 6 Sierpnia streets. On the fifth floor, lived the camera operator Stanisław Wohl.

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 ...

WARSAW, Sept. 1, 1939 (UP) - President Moscicki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Israel Gutman, Israel’s most prominent survivor historian, died in Jerusalem on October 1. A native of Warsaw, Gutman was only a teenager when the Germans invaded his Poland. His parents and his older ...

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 ...