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When people speak of Warsaw’s agony in 1944, they often recall the heroism of the Polish resistance, and they talk about how the city was destroyed. But few talk about HOW  it was destroyed. Most guides mention Old Town, Śródmieście, and the soldiers of the Home Army. I talk of Dirlewanger Men in Wola and Kaminski’s RONA men in Ochota, some other guides mention mass executions in Wola but no one talks about Ochota, a district not executed by firing squads but by drunken loote

This blog is about Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. Today it is the big empty square between City Center and Old Town, it is where the Polish...

The morning of August 5th, 1944 marks one of the darkest days in the history of Warsaw. It was on this day that the SS Dirlewanger...

Today is August 1. Warsaw stops. At 5:00 p.m (11:00am in Boston), sirens rise and wail across the city. The noise pierces through...

July 20, 1944, a German officer with a patch over one eye and a mangled right hand walked into Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters, the...

This is one of the most important and haunting questions about the nature of evil in war: The answer lies in a deadly combination of...

Khatyn: The Village That Burned While They Screamed On March 22, 1943, in Nazi-occupied Belarus, the village of Khatyn ceased to exist,...

Polish history is filled with incredible bravery, from the Home Army fighting off the Blitzkrieg in 1939, to the underground sabotaging the German war machine for six brutal years of occupation, to the civilians who fought against impossible odds in the Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and City Uprising of 1944, to people who survived the worst massacres in WWII such as Wola in Warsaw and Khatyn in Belarus, to men like Witold Pilecki who dedicated his life to the freedom of Poland and

During my first vagabonding trip of six months in the year of late 2023 into winter of 2024, I spent one month in beautiful Warsaw, Poland during the entire month of January. During this I stayed at the Oki Doki Hostel as a hostel volunteer. On one of my days off, I joined a tour led by a knowledgeable guide named Jesus, originally from Spain. We explored the Old Town, discussing the Uprising of '44, before he drove us eastward to the former Nazi extermination camp of Treblin

Are you a history enthusiast or a dark tourist looking to delve into the real depths of Warsaw's dark history from 1930's all the way to...

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, holds a rich and complex history that includes a significant chapter during World War II that also...

Walking Tour: The Warsaw Uprising If you're passionate about history or a traveler eager to explore Poland's past, this tour in Warsaw...