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 ...

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched their invasion into Poland marking the beginning of World War II. Among those ...

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.

GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) - A monument to a battle fought in the opening days of World War Two has become a new frontline in the fight between Poland's ruling nationalists and the liberal opposition in ...