Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

a woman who fought the Nazis as a member of the Polish resistance. Aleksandra is “the only light” in the film, Glazer said on the eve of Zone‘s U.S. release in mid-December, drawing a ...

A member of Poland's main resistance organisation ... gentleman farmer' Pilecki signed up to fight with the Polish army. Having previously served during the 1918-1920 Polish-Bolshevik War ...

A Polish resistance fighter ... Under an assumed name, he reconnected with former members of the Polish Underground to gather intelligence. He was captured in 1947, tortured and, after a brief ...

Witold Pilecki was never able to consign the past to the past in the same way. A member of the Polish resistance, in 1940 he arranged his own arrest, calculating that this would mean he would be ...

WARSAW, Poland — Józef Walaszczyk, a member of the Polish resistance who rescued dozens of Jews during the Nazi German occupation of Poland during World War II, has died aged 102. Walaszczyk ...

His father, Cavalry Capt. Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance member, volunteered in 1940 to be caught by the Nazi Germans and held at Auschwitz in order to organize resistance there and gather ...

On May 5, 1945, with German capitulation just days away, Polish resistance members entered the camp. The Germans were lined up against the wall. Those designated “salauds” — bastards — by ...

Officials in Poland have paid tribute to two members of the country’s wartime ... Home Army (AK), the underground force loyal to the Polish government-in-exile in Britain, were victims of ...

It gradually becomes clear that many of her relatives were massacred not by the Nazis, but by members of the Polish resistance movement. This was no isolated incident; it was a relatively common ...

Before 1942, the Jewish underground in German-occupied Eastern Europe did not view armed resistance as an option according to historian Yisrael Gutman, who was a member of the Jewish Underground ...