The Nike monument is one of the most recognizable symbols of Warsaw, even though it went through a move from the representative Theatre Square to the East-West thoroughfare.

BERLIN, Sept. 27, 1939 (UP) -- The city of Warsaw capitulated unconditionally today, the Nazi high command said, on the 20th day of bombardment, fire and starvation.

LONDON, Sept. 8, 1939 (UP) -- The Polish radio reported from Warsaw tonight that the capital had suffered the biggest air raid of the war, with many incendiary bombs falling. It said numerous ...

The deportation and subsequent exterminaton of the Warsaw region Jews stood as the largest slaughter of a single community--Jewish or non-Jewish--during World War II. In just a seven-week period ...

Haunting color photos made by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and 1940.

After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on Sept. 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland’s border, had declared war on Germany on Sept. 17 ...

On the anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, Life.com has published a series of photos from Hugo Jaeger that depict the city and the smaller ghetto of Kutno in ...

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 ...