Even before the end of the Second World War was declared, institutions, including the Polish-Soviet Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, started investigating crimes the Nazi regime ...

On 19th April 1943, smoke covered the skies over central Warsaw. The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish ...

A first-hand account by last-known survivor Samuel Willenberg, now 92 years old, about his life during the Holocaust and as a Jewish inmate of the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Israeli daughter of a Jew who escaped Treblinka will design a Holocaust education center to be opened on the premises of the Nazi death camp. TREBLINKA, Poland (JTA) — The Israeli daughter ...

Some 700 participants walked to a hospital where doctors gave morphine to some children, allowing them to die in their beds rather than be transported to death camps. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Some ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

In July 1942, Nazi Germany ordered the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was ...

Warsaw is a city packed with historic attractions and museums. Most central neighborhoods contain can't-miss sights, so plan on exploring several districts during your visit. All of Warsaw's top ...