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Warsaw Uprising

Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 14, 2026, 8:48 am
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it
Updated English translation of Vladka Meed’s 1948 Yiddish memoir, ‘On Both Sides of the Wall,’ breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A wristwatch and a pair of earrings belonging to deceased Stanislawa Mordes are seen on June 11, 2024, in Warsaw, during a ceremony of returning the personal effects to the families of two Polish victims killed following the Warsaw Uprising from 1944. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
June 11, 2024, 11:45 pm
Germany returns items to descendants of Poles killed at Nazi camps
Arolsen Archives hands over watch, earring, brooch and powder compact as part of efforts to retrace the fate of Third Reich’s 17.5 million victims
By AFP
In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is reviving plans to reconstruct a historic Warsaw palace where the German Enigma machine codes were first cracked in 1932 and which Nazi German occupying forces blew up in 1944, it was announced Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
July 8, 2021, 12:46 am
Poland to rebuild historic palace where Nazi Enigma machine first cracked
Reconstruction of Saski Palace, blown up by Nazis when they leveled Warsaw, has been planned for years to symbolize city’s rebirth
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
People light flares as they observe a minute of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II on August 1, 2019, in the Polish capital Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
August 1, 2019, 10:17 pm
Poles mark 75 years since Warsaw Uprising against Nazis
Polish capital comes to standstill as sirens wail in homage to failed rebellion; German FM tells Polish people he’s ashamed of what Nazis did to their country
By AFP
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
July 31, 2019, 8:38 pm
German FM in Poland for talks, WWII Warsaw revolt’s 75th anniversary
Heiko Maas is highest German official in years to attend observances for uprising against Nazis
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: The Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)
From the WebApril 18, 2019, 10:33 pm
100 families to celebrate seder in Warsaw Ghetto for first time since 1943
Historic Passover meal to be held on the 76th anniversary of WWII uprising, the Jewish News reports
Simcha Rotem, undated (Courtesy)
December 22, 2018, 10:52 pm
Simcha Rotem, one of last survivors from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 94
Rotem fought Nazis in city streets, later helped rebels flee through sewers; Netanyahu says, ‘His story will forever be with our people’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Frame grab made available by the Warsaw Rising Museum shows Witold Kiesun taken from snippets of historical footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, enhanced by modern coloring and sound techniques (AP/Warsaw Rising Museum)
August 3, 2018, 7:51 am
Virtual reality brings Warsaw uprising back to life
Visitors are able to experience doomed 1944 battle against Nazis in Polish capital in realistic, 15-minute experience
By AFP
Monument to the Warsaw Uprising (CC BY David Kindler, Flickr)
August 1, 2017, 5:50 pm
Poles commemorate Warsaw Uprising on 73rd anniversary
President Andrzej Duda lays wreath at memorial to 1944 civilian revolt against German forces
By AP
US President Donald Trump gives a speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Janek Skarzynski)
July 6, 2017, 5:00 pm
In Warsaw, Trump tells Russia to end its ‘destabilizing activities’
Ahead of meeting with Putin, US president stops short of condemning Moscow’s meddling in 2016 election in hawkish speech
By Ken Thomas and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
In this April 13, 2016 file picture , Princeton professor Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Alik Keplicz,file)
November 5, 2016, 2:05 am
Holocaust scholar tests Poland’s freedom of speech, and its WWII narrative
Princeton professor who claims Poles killed more Jews than Germans could face three years in prison
By Vanessa Gera
Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the 1943 Treblinka death camp revolt (YouTube screenshot)
February 20, 2016, 11:13 am
Samuel Willenberg, last survivor of Treblinka revolt, dies at 93
One of the few to escape the Nazi camp in 1943, Willenberg moved to Israel in 1950, where he found success later in life as a sculptor
By Sara Miller
Andrew Borowiec's memoir 'Warsaw Boy' recounts his life as a teenage resistance fighter in the Warsaw Uprising. (courtesy)
September 8, 2014, 12:37 pm
Babe in arms: The tale of a teenaged resistance fighter
70 years in the making, Andrew Borowiec’s memoir ‘Warsaw Boy’ began on a WWII toilet paper roll
By JP O’ Malley
People hold burning flares to commemorate the 70. anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 3, 2014, 12:01 am
Poland marks 70th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising
Uprising was a taboo subject until the fall of communism in 1989, but now viewed as an example of heroism
By AP
Two women look at exhibits at the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin, Germany in 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
July 30, 2014, 10:59 pm
Warsaw Uprising exhibit opens at center of Nazi power
Photos, documents and films on show until Oct. 26 at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Museum
By AP
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