After Poland’s defeat in 1939, Major Henryk Dobrzański formed a roaming detachment that refused to disband, carrying out ambushes and raids while becoming a symbol of resistance. German forces ...

During the Second World War, Poland endured immense and tragic losses that left an indelible mark on its history. As one of ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Leo was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1930 into a poor Orthodox Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in Poland after the first world war. His father became a communist and was in and out of prison ...

Staff doctors and nurses from Chicago wait for their next assignment at a evacuation hospital in Munich, Germany, on July 20, 1945 (Image/AP) World War II, the deadliest conflict in modern history, ...

In September 1939, Britain saw a shocking mass killing of pets as II began. Here’s how fear, wartime panic, and government ...

De Valera's cabinet passed the Emergency Powers Act and then, with impressive national resolve, agreed to call the entire ...

Shares MSCI Poland ETF (EPOL) offers direct exposure to Poland’s dynamic, high-growth economy, which could potentially join ...

Aleksander Pluskowski on how the Catholic knights in Europe brought law and order to the pagan world and became a model for ...

Several thousand Hasidic Jews from across Europe and North America have gathered in the southeastern Polish town of Leżajsk ...

In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...

The Poster Museum in Warsaw has reopened its doors to visitors following a thorough five-year refurbishment.