The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered heroic resistance, often by groups with little chance of success. Nowhere was ...
And one more, anxiously anticipated. My grandmother was expecting. Before the 1939 German invasion, one-third of the Warsaw population was Jewish. At its peak, the ghetto was packed with 400,000 ...
WARSAW, Poland — The world's focus was on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany's atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty joined them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of ...
Joseph Alexander said he had a “very good life” with his family until Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.  He was only 17 years old the first time he was in a concentration camp. Alexander ...
Her father and older brother were taken to stalags — war prisons — in Germany, and her younger brother was murdered by the Nazis after they caught him with a Jewish girl he was friends with.