A French amateur photographer took a collection of photographs of the 1930s Warsaw. During a delegation of war veterans, he visited a number of typically tourist locations, taking pictures of the Old ...

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.

The year is 1934. You step out of your apartment in Warsaw and ride the tram to the train station. Boarding the train, you grab a newspaper, and the locomotive whistle sounds. Plumes of smoke blacken ...

Steinman, author of "The Souvenir," is at work on "The Crooked Mirror: A Conversation With Poland." Emanuel Ringelblum was an inveterate optimist who, in 1930s Warsaw, believed that Polish Jewry had a ...