As Polish lawmakers consider making it a crime to refer to Polish complicity in Nazi atrocities, critics are pointing to one piece of history in particular: the massacre of hundreds of Jews by ...

Starting in June 1941, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union and the Soviet-occupied eastern territories of Poland, German troops and local helpers unleashed a massive wave of massacres that ...

In September 1939, Nazi and Soviet armies invaded Poland, resulting in countless individuals being deported or “resettled”—forcibly exiled to labor camps in Siberia and Soviet central Asia. This ...

Ladimer Russu, a Rumanian war criminal respon## for the murder of at least 70 Jews in 1941, has been arrested trying to cross Polish border in a repatriation train. During the Russian retreat from ...

More than 1,000 ghettos were established in Central and Eastern Europe by the Nazis at the beginning of the Second World War between 1939 and 1941. Poland alone had more than 300 of them.