Out of the guards’ earshot, Pilecki recruited the most dependable of his compatriots to help pass along information to the resistance. Pilecki selected partisans from members of the Polish ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As The Public's Radio Lynn Arditi says in today's episode, much has been written about the Polish resistance movement ... a family member and Holocaust survivor, make sense of what really happened ...

mostly Polish resistance members and others. Later the group, along with state officials and other participants gathered for a ceremony by a brick women’s barrack at Birkenau that has recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...