Top officials on Sunday are paying tribute to Polish post-WWII resistance fighters who suffered brutal repression at the hands of the country’s former communist authorities.

On September 1, 1939, the opening shots of World War II thundered across the Baltic coast as the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarded the Polish military depot at Westerplatte near the Free ...

CHELMSFORD — When Stanislawa “Stasia” Krygowska Woltosz, nee Ferus, was a teenager in the southeastern Polish village of Odrzykon, she remembers seeing what she first believed to be military exercises ...

Most conscripts, some of whom were minors as young as 16, served in auxiliary positions in Norway, France, Serbia and Greece; they were not fully trusted. It is estimated that 90,000 of them fled, or ...

During World War II, resistance movements emerged across Europe and beyond, comprising brave civilians and former soldiers who fought against the Axis occupation. Lacking the industrial might of ...

After the country's occupation in 1939, the people of Poland were brutally oppressed by the SS and Geheime Staatspolizei. Yet, they never gave up the fight. Throughout the Second World War, a Polish ...