But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...

The British aviator Stanley Johnson recalled: ‘We could see Warsaw from afar ... send them to the Polish government in London. During the uprising, he worked as a photojournalist for the Home Army. He ...

The fact that the Red Army idly observed the drama of the city from across the Vistula River made the Warsaw Uprising especially inconvenient for the post-war Polish authorities. There were writers, ...

In the words of one soldier, Warsaw was ‘a phantom city ... The vanished city The end of the Warsaw Uprising on October 2, 1944, saw the Nazis visit new vengeances on a city that Hitler had come to ...

The Błyskawica, or Lightning, combined the best features of the German MP40 and the British Sten submarine guns... The Błyskawica, or Lightning, combined the best features of the German MP40 and ...

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 ...

It tells the story of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 through ... Information and Propaganda of the Polish Home Army. Their mission: documenting the Uprising by shooting newsreels for the “Palladium ...