The Germans bomb our camp. Men are dying. I retreat. I crawl back to the station. [airplane sounds] [bullet sounds] I don't even know who is firing, who is on our side. Total devastation. Chaos. The ...

While Poland fought Nazi Germany in the west, the Soviet Union invaded from the east under the shadow of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Within weeks, Poland was divided between the two powers, and ...

The 1939 invasion of Poland is often told through the lens of Nazi Germany’s blitzkrieg—but what was it like for the Poles? In this video, we explore the invasion from the Polish perspective: the ...

David Strathairn as Jan Karski reenacts the invasion of Poland and the story of how he became a prisoner of war. A Plea to Churchill and Roosevelt During the Holocaust A politician in exile writes to ...