To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum. This attraction, which sits in a former tram power station in the Wola district, is home to ...

but one of the city’s most memorable is the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created to commemorate the thousands of Poles who fought against Nazi Germany (which ...

Here, we present profiles of ten photojournalists of the Warsaw Uprising and the stories behind their photographs. After all, it was all of Warsaw fighting – hence I was there on the barricades and in ...

The Warsaw Uprising became a literary topic as early as during the fighting: Białoszewski, Bratny, Świrszczyńska, Rymkiewicz, among others, all wrote about it. In recent years, the tragedy of the city ...

But last month, a roll of film taken by a Warsaw firefighter during the uprising was discovered by his son. The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto ...

On the eve of Passover 1943 — the nineteenth of April — a group of several hundred poorly armed young Jews began the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the first insurrections against Nazism.

The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, made a ‘Secret Speech’ in February 1956 which criticised the previous Soviet ...

A constant battleground, Warsaw saw two of the most striking rebellions: the Warsaw Uprising and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the revolt of the last Jewish groups ...

said in an interview with the Polsat television channel that Poland should prepare for a potential uprising in Belarus and that Warsaw should support it.