How my family survived the Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...
culture.pl9mon
The Warsaw That Wasn’t: Using VR to Explore a City Denied by WWII
which takes you into an alternative history of Warsaw which never experienced World War II. It lets you visit familiar parts of the city as we know it today, but with buildings that were already ...
culture.pl5y
Last Days: Warsaw’s Shining Cultural Moment on the Eve of WWII
In October 1938, a new exhibition opened at the National Museum in Warsaw, which would run until mid-1939. Titled ‘Warszawa Wczoraj, Dziś, Jutro’ (Warsaw Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), it testified to a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6y
A 1939 phone book could be the key to unlocking millions in Polish Holocaust restitution payments
WARSAW (JTA) — In the small park behind the ... thanks to the recent discovery of an unpublished phone book from 1939. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, set up the database ...
Business Insider3y
The surprising ways 3 women secretly fought the Nazis in Poland
In August 1939, when she was living in Warsaw and running educational programs and securing visas for the Freedom movement, she attended a meeting in Switzerland of Zionist delegates from around ...
BBC5y
Resurrecting History: Warsaw
In many ways, it has defined my life. During the Second World War, Warsaw was virtually wiped off the map. It was damaged during the Nazi invasion of 1939, but far worse was to come five years ...
mp.pl3y
The Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw under Nazi German occupation, 1939–1944
The Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire conference is an international academic forum whose purpose is to share information, scholarship and views on matters related to learning ...
DW on MSN5mon
Poland marks 85 years since WWII outbreak
Polish leaders attended ceremonies on opposite sides of the country, marking Nazi Germany's invasion in 1939. President ...