Like other death camp sites, Treblinka was linked by rail to major Jewish communities in its region of Poland. The deportation and subsequent exterminaton of the Warsaw region Jews stood as the ...

When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...

‘Rope-soled slippers, size 38’ - these are some of the last words written in the poet’s hand. It is 18th April 1944 in the prison on Czarnieckiego Street in Kraków. In a request, she further asks for ...

Binkov's Battlegrounds What If Modern Poland Faced 1939 Germany? Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 In Part 2 of this alternate history series, we ask: could today’s Polish ...

The invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II. A swift and devastating attack that set the world on a path to global conflict. Europe's rearmament an 'extraordinary ...

September 1st 1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland The campaign is fast cruel and ruthless In these circumstances how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers terrorizing ...

Grobart, her mother, and her father are the only Jews from her rather large extended family who made it out of the Holocaust ...

September 1939, Warsaw under siege. One of the first artillery shells ... all of them became the most influential figures in the cinema emerging from the ruins in an altogether different Poland.