A vibrant and huge Jewish population of Warsaw – mostly a remnant of the past. You can find a place or two, sure, but it’s ...
85% of the buildings on the left-bank of the river are destroyed. Józef Sigalin, one of the chief architects of Warsaw’s reconstruction, wrote about Nowy Åšwiat Street in January 1945 stating that what ...
Selected spreads from the photobook Warszawa 1945 (Warsaw 1945). Photographs: Leonard Sempoliński, text: Emilia Borecka, publisher: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, 1975. The reconstruction of ...
In the words of one soldier, Warsaw was ‘a phantom city’. Photo: public domain / Wikicommons. 80 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish military formations entered Warsaw bringing an end to ...
(AP Photo, File) A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, ...
It had become a sticking point between the two neighbours amid Warsaw's support for Kiev in ... in what is now western Ukraine between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists murdered around 100,000 ...