A total of more than 14,000 artifacts were unearthed, of which 6,300 were considered to be historically significant, officials said. Archaeologists deemed the most important discovery to be a military ...

The Long March began just after midnight on Jan. 28, 1945, when Stalag Luft III, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in what is now ...

On February 27, 1945, the Demyanchik family applied for resettlement to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (the territory of their village was to become part of Poland). But on his return ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.

In 1944 he was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, where both his father and brother died. In 1945 he survived two death marches, ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

Ringelblum and his contributors resisted by ensuring that future generations would have a record of life under Nazi occupation in Poland. Auschwitz was liberated six months later, in January 1945.

Particularly in Germany and Poland camp commandants experimented with various killing methodologies and consulted with one another on their successes and failures. The ability of a single camp to ...