Prior to 1939, Poland was home to 3.3 million Jews, comprising about ten percent of its population. By his estimation, only about 30,000 survived the Nazi occupation on Polish soil. Upwards of 250,000 ...

A vast subterranean complex was built by Adolf Hitler’s regime to protect Germany’s border with Poland. Now home to one of ...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has told German President Frank Walter Steinmeier that Germany could pay for the damage ...

This paper examines how the rise and fall of Polish agriculture affected the larger political and economic relationships among Poland and three key members of the western alliance--the United States, ...

Picturing Poland, you might imagine a medieval square in Kraków or a steaming plate of pierogi dumplings. But this country of ...

Numbers correspond to timeline events and locations. Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other ...

THE naked rooms stood up in the air as if on stilts. Under them, over them, around them probed searching blasts of the December wind. These two rooms, a kitchen and a bedroom, were all that was left ...

This text addresses the general question of how medicine-based objects—for example, leg-braces, crutches, orthopaedic boots, and corsets—were included in the daily-life routines of so-called ...

The Second World War was “simply ‘the War’ until the late 1940s” in Britain, according to History.com, although US president ...