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.

On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance ...

Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there.

Smiles and tears, rush and silence, the struggle and everyday life; 63 days, tens of thousands of victims and images inscribed into the memory of generations to come. Here, we present profiles of ten ...

Today, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ... Together, they documented everyday life, but also German atrocities against the Jews in Poland. They gathered 35,000 ...

Prior to World War II, few harbored any expectation that the United States—or any nation—would intervene in humanitarian crises in other countries. The United States was deeply isolationist on ...

Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there. Pinchas Gutter was just seven years old when Nazi officers came to his ...