On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany’s attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor their defensive pact with Poland and declare war on Germany in response. As Germany invaded from the west, the Soviet Union
A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw has been laid to rest Thursday, with both loved ones and strangers turning out to mourn the loss of a young woman who escaped a difficult family life
Donald Tusk, Poland’s arch-europhile Prime Minister, has been accused of putting the interests of the bloc ahead of those of his own people in the wake of yesterday’s violent clashes between police and protesting farmers in Warsaw. Poland’s government today sought to
Aston Villa’s Europa Conference League clash against Legia Warsaw has been marred by pre-match violence outside Villa Park. Away supporters have been barred from entering the stadium for the crunch Group E meeting after a statement confirmed that three police officers had
Yellow daffodils are everywhere in Warsaw this week, a symbol of remembrance for the 1943 uprising by Jews in the city’s ghetto against Nazi German occupiers. There are the real daffodils that residents and visitors to the Polish capital place on memorials
Tova Gutstein was born in Warsaw the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. She was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched the first act of collective defiance against the Nazis in Europe. Now 90, she is