Jaroslaw Jarek Piekalkiewicz and his cousin started a Polish resistance unit to fight the Germans during World War II. Now a Lawrence resident, Piekalkiewicz will speak Nov. 16-19 at the International ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Seventy-five years ago, 20,000 ...

WARSAW, Poland – Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and the director of Radio Free Europe’s Polish service during the Cold War, has died, Polish officials ...

Austrian director Feo Aladag ('When We Leave') will write and direct a biopic on Polish soldier and spy Witold Pilecki, who escaped from Auschwitz and helped lead the Polish resistance to the Nazis.

ELMHUSRT, Queens (WABC) — On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, a community in Queens is hoping to landmark a home owned by a woman who fought for the Polish resistance during World War II. Across the ...

WASHINGTON – In 1943, Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat and courier for the Polish resistance, met with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and relayed to him in detail the horrors of the ...

Last week, the White House apologized to Poland over language used by President Obama in honoring the late Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski. Obama referred to a “Polish death camp” when awarding ...

When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, starting World War II, the Polish people's troubles were just beginning. About two weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. The Polish ...

Director Jonathan Glazer dedicated his Oscar to a late Polish resistance fighter, calling her "the only light" in his harrowing Holocaust drama. By Livia Paccariè The online furor over the comments ...

Jacek Kuron, who inspired and tutored generations of Poles to struggle against Communist rule, serving as the ultimately successful godfather of a resistance that coalesced around the Solidarity labor ...