CHICAGO (WLS) -- There was a big 95th birthday celebration Tuesday in Lake Barrington for the amazing life of a World War II veteran, who fought with the Polish resistance. His life began as a ...
This is the very first episode of Out of the Foxholes, in which we answer questions from the community. In this first edition, we'll talk about the early-war career of Erwin Rommel, German Press on ...
It was July 4th, 1944 in London and the end of the war in Europe was finally in sight. The previous month, the Allies had liberated Rome and landed in France. In the east, the Soviet Army was rapidly ...
An auditorium of eager kids in Washington, Okla., were on the edge of their seats a few weeks ago as author Jennifer A. Nielsen told them about Lidia Durr Zakrzewski, a teenager who joined the Polish ...
Pelagia A. Wasilewski, who was part of the underground resistance to the Nazis in Poland during World War II, died Sunday in her home in Buffalo’s Kaisertown neighborhood. She was 93. Born Pelagia ...
The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...
— -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk angrily demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama explain his reference to "a Polish death camp" during a high-profile White House ceremony a day ...
In an interview, Mrs Merkel, who served as German chancellor from 2005 to 2021, claimed that Polish and Baltic resistance to ...
Hanna Petrivna, now 91, was a schoolgirl when she saw lorries packed with dozens of Poles from nearby villages pull up near her home in Vishnevets. Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fighters herded them ...