Some background: For 63 days in 1944, the Polish Home Army fought — and failed — to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The result was the death of 16,000 Polish resistance fighters and as many ...

On 1 August 2025, Poland commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising - a defining moment in its modern history ...

He said Piekalkiewicz joined the Polish resistance at age 16, two years before the bloody street fighting of the 63-day uprising in the late summer and early fall of 1944, in which an estimated ...

The Warsaw Uprising took place in the summer of 1944, as Polish resistance forces attempted to free Warsaw from Nazi occupation. For two months, the resistance forces fought against the Germans ...

Richard Cosby, a Polish resistance fighter during World War II who escaped a Nazi prison camp and retired as a civil engineer in the Washington, D.C., area, died June 25 at Inova Alexandria ...